Press Release

Iran: Authorities Target Women’s Rights Activists with Arbitrary Arrest, Flogging and Death Penalty

Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists in a bid to quash Iran’s women’s rights movement.

March 17, 2025
From left to right: Baran Saedi, Soma Mohammadrezaei, Leila Pashaei, Sohaila Motaei. The four Kurdish women’s rights activists were arrested after they participated in IWD events © Private