Female prisoners and activists at the forefront… mounting pressure on women in Iran

The Iranian Center for Human Rights published a report on the increasing pressure exerted by the Iranian regime’s forces and its judicial institutions on the residents of eastern Kurdistan and Iran.

The report stated that lawyer Kalala Vatan Dost, from the city of Marivan in eastern Kurdistan, was sentenced to six years, seven months and twenty days in prison by the Sinai Revolutionary Court on charges of “propaganda against the state,” after she took on the case of female prisoners of the “Women, Life, Freedom” revolution. Kalala was transferred to Sinai Central Prison to serve her sentence.

It was also reported that seven students from Sharif University of Arts in Tehran, including two students, Parnian Khodabakhshi and Fatemeh Khakpour, were expelled from the university due to their activities on social media sites related to the recent protests that swept the country.

At the same time, the report stated that the health condition of political prisoner Fatemeh Sepehri, aged 62, who is detained in Vakilabad prison in the city of Mashhad, is facing serious danger.

Fatima Sepehri began a hunger strike and abstained from taking medication in protest against the violation of her rights and the lack of respect by prison officials for her human dignity. Fatima’s loyalists warned that they would begin protests in various regions of Iran if her legal demands were not met by tomorrow, Saturday.

The Iranian Center for Human Rights reported that Mahdia Yousefi, 19 years old, one of the detainees in the recent protests, suffers from a serious heart disease, and that her continued detention raises serious concerns about her health.