Pakhshan Azizi

<p>Pakhshan Azizi is a citizen of Mahabad and graduated in social work from Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran. Ms. Azizi has been arrested several times for her activities.</p>

<coverage-outsourcing id='55827'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/news-fa/detained-civilians/2023/11/09/p30508/'> The Kurdistan Human Rights Network wrote years later that Azizi had been arrested by security agents during a protest meeting of Kurdish students of Tehran University against political executions in Kurdistan. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='55828'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/news-fa/detained-civilians/2023/11/09/p30508/'> She was released on bail. Kurdistan Human Rights Network wrote years later that she left Iran after her release. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='55826'> <reference source='https://kurdpa.net/fa/news/2023/11/32'> Kurdpa wrote about three months later that on this date, Pakhshan Azizi was arrested by the security forces in Tehran and transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison. Kurdistan Human Rights Network also wrote about the arrest of Ms. Azizi later that she was arrested along with several members of her family in Kharazi town in Tehran. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, the detained members of Azizi's family were released after several days of interrogation. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='55830'> <reference source='https://t.me/Followupiran/936'> The committee to follow up on the situation of the detainees wrote that the Bitavan website, a media close to the security institutions, reported the simultaneous arrest of Verisheh Moradi and two other Kurdish citizens, named Pakhshan Azizi and Sirvan Mohammad Rezaei, during the conflict with the IRGC forces, and they were referred to as members of PJAK, Hayat Azad party. This is while, according to reports, these three have been in the custody of the security forces for months and had nothing to do with the aforementioned conflicts. According to reports, they were arrested in different cities. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='55829'> <reference source='https://kurdpa.net/fa/news/2023/11/32'> Kurdpa wrote that Pakhshan Azizi has been denied access to a lawyer, phone calls, and family visits since her arrest. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='55831'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/news-fa/prisoners-fa/2023/12/14/p31225/'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network wrote that after four months of interrogation, Pakhshan Azizi was transferred from ward 209 of Evin prison to the women's ward of this prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='55832'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/news-fa/prisoners-fa/2023/12/14/p31225/'> The Kurdistan Human Rights Network wrote that during the four months of interrogation in Evin Detention Center 209, Azizi has been on hunger strike for several days in protest against the torture and pressure of the security interrogators to make televised confessions and to accept the accusation of being a member of one of the "hostile groups". According to this report, despite the torture and pressure of the interrogators of the Ministry of Intelligence, Ms. Azizi denied all the accusations and announced that she has worked as a social worker and translator in war-torn areas for several years. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='55833'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/news-fa/prisoners-fa/2024/02/11/p32516/'> The Kurdistan Human Rights Network wrote that in the past weeks, the interrogation session of Pakhshan Azizi was held in the fifth branch of the Evin Security Prosecutor's Office, and after the accusation of membership in the country's opposition groups, the case was sent to Branch 26 of the Tehran Islamic Revolution Court headed by Judge Iman Afshari. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='56410'> <reference source='https://www.instagram.com/p/C4SW-Swqnqw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link'> In a message on the occasion of International Women's Day, female political prisoners in Evin prison emphasized the need to explain the concept of "gender apartheid" in Iran "in the path of fighting against discrimination". </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='56418'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-47567/'> HRANA wrote that even though 233 days have passed since the arrest of Pakhshan Azizi, she is still in the women's ward of Evin prison, and no trial has been held for her. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='57717'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-47887/'> HRANA wrote that 253 days after her arrest, she is still in the women's ward of Evin prison in an undecided manner, and despite the referral of her case to the Revolutionary Court, her case has not been processed yet. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='59169'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/2s4exnef'> According to Kurdistan Human Rights Network, she announced a hunger strike in protest against the transfer of Verisheh Moradi to Ward 209. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='59172'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/3sbhs6ax'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network wrote that Pakhshan Azizi and Varisheh Moradi ended their hunger strike after Varisheh Moradi returned to the women's ward. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='59646'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-48765/'> HRANA wrote that the trial of Pakhshan Azizi was held in Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court under the chairmanship of Iman Afshari, and she defended herself on charges including being a member of dissident groups. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='60575'> <reference source='https://kurdistanhumanrights.org/fa/news-fa/prisoners-fa/2024/06/17/p34703/'> According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, the second session of Pakhshan Azizi's trial was held in Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='61480'> <reference source='https://www.hra-news.org/2024/hranews/a-49340/'> HRANA reported that despite holding a court hearing, no sentence has been issued for her and she is still in the women's ward of Evin Prison. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='61970'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/2w7hsrfh'> According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, she was denied the right to contact and family visits by order of the prison's disciplinary council. According to this report, no explanation was given to her about the reason and duration of this ban. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='61971'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/2w7hsrfh'> Kurdistan Human Rights Network reported that she is still being denied family visits and phone calls. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='62010'> <reference source='https://kurdpa.net/fa/news/2024/07/50'> In an open letter from Evin prison under the title "Hiding the truth and its alternative", while referring to the suffering of "being a woman" and "being a Kurd" in the Islamic Republic system, she mentioned her torture in solitary confinement and her inhumane conditions. At the beginning of this letter, a copy of which was published by Kurdpa, Azizi mentions her violent arrest at gunpoint by 20 security forces and her transfer to solitary confinement. She refers to her physical and mental torture in the interrogation room in "The Bottom of the Earth", where she was repeatedly hanged, slammed into a chair, insulted, threatened, and humiliated, and labeled as "separatist" and "second sex". In a part of this letter, Azizi mentions her five months in solitary confinement and her continuous hunger strike, which resulted in frequent bleeding. She says that she went to Syria to defend women's rights during the ISIS war, and for this reason, she was accused of collaborating with PKK. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='61972'> <reference source='https://tinyurl.com/ywccwjnd'> She was sentenced to death. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network wrote that Pasharan Azizi was sentenced to death by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, headed by Judge Iman Afshari, on the charge of rebellion through membership in the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK). The report also stated that after the publication of the news of her death sentence in the women's ward of Evin prison, female political prisoners started a protest sit-in in the courtyard of this ward for several hours. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>
<coverage-outsourcing id='62166'> <reference source='https://t.me/bidarzani/14186'> According to Bidarzani's report, the women's ward of Evin prison protested the death sentence of Pakhshan Azizi, they organized a sit-down in the women's prison and announced that they would not return to the ward tonight. </reference> </coverage-outsourcing>