Zhina Modarres Gorji, journalist and women's rights activist, has been imprisoned

Zhina Modarres Gorji, a journalist and women's rights activist residing in Sanandaj, announced her visit to prison to serve her sentence. On Saturday, November 12, she wrote on her Instagram account that despite the intensification of "marginalization and discrimination based on gender, class, and nationality" in the women's prison of Sanandaj, she is heading to this prison with hope. Ms. Modarres Gorji was initially sentenced to 21 years of exile in Hamadan prison on charges including "forming an illegal group," "propaganda against the regime," and "contact with hostile governments". Following objections from this journalist and women's rights activist and her lawyers, the appellate court acquitted her of the charge of "contact with hostile governments" and ultimately sentenced her to 16 months in prison in Sanandaj. In a note regarding this ruling, she criticized it, stating: "I deeply believe that my right and the right of none of us is to be treated this way and to be placed in such conditions." The arrest of Azad Abbasi, chairman of the cultural association "Nozhin" Human rights networks reported that Azad Abbasi, chairman of the cultural association "Nozhin" and a Kurdish language teacher, was arrested on Thursday, November 10, and transferred to the prison in Qorveh to serve his two-year prison sentence. This civil activist, who has been arrested several times, was sentenced to three years in prison by Branch 102 of the Criminal Court of Dehgolan last February on charges of "propaganda against the regime" and "insulting the leadership," of which two years are enforceable. Previously, several activists in the Kurdish language field and members of the board of the cultural association "Nozhin", including Souma Pourmohammadi and Mohammad Moradi Nasari, faced judicial actions and dismissal orders from their workplaces. Javid Rahman, former UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, emphasized in a meeting hosted by the Atlantic Council that "ethnic and religious minorities" in Iran face "organized persecution and harassment." Summoning four teacher union activists from Khuzestan province to the Revolutionary Court According to the news channel "Iranian Teacher Union Challenge", four teacher union activists from Khuzestan province; Koukb Badaghi Pegah, Pirouz Nami, Ali Koroushat, and Siamak Sadeghi Chehraz have been summoned to Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Court in Ahvaz. Their charges include "collusion and conspiracy against national security," "propaganda against the regime," "forming a group," and "disturbing public order". These four union activists must appear in the Revolutionary Court in Ahvaz on November 16. The intensification of security and judicial actions by the Islamic Republic against teacher union activists in recent years has faced criticism from international labor and teacher unions. Hillary Clinton calls for immediate medical leave for Narges Mohammadi Exclusive: The U.S. is reviewing the case of a dual-national prisoner in Iran. Mona Bakhtiari warns of threats to her parents' lives in prison. Vrishe Moradi ended her hunger strike "in respect of the wishes of human rights activists and her fellow inmates."