GENEVA (IDN) – Biram Dah Abeid, a descendant of former slaves who has been called “the Nelson Mandela of Mauritania”, and Shaparak Shajarizadeh,...
One year ago, Iran's “morality police” detained and brutally attacked a 22-year old Kurdish woman - Mahsa (Jina) Amini - for allegedly...
Remarks by Shaparak Shajarizadeh upon receiving the Morris B. Abram Award UN Watch Online Gala, November 1, 2020. YouTube player.
Anti-hijab protester Shaparak Shajarizadeh who has been detained for the second time has started a hunger strike protesting her extrajudicial detention.
Shaparak Shajarizadeh has been arrested again for allegedly allowing her hair to show in public in Iran. Her lawyer, prominent human rights...
Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer who defended women who removed their hijabs in Iran, is facing a 38 year prison sentence and 148 lashes.
Iranian people look to the outside world for support but hear only silence, says one exiled Iranian activist in an interview with Elan...
Today she lives in Toronto, where she continues to fight against Iran's discrimination of women, testifying at the Canadian Parliament and...
Shaparak Shajarizadeh is an Iranian activist and co-author of "Freedom is not a crime". She relates how she got “fed up with living a lie” and decided to take...
A warning by Iranian police that women could be jailed for up to a decade for joining protests against compulsory veiling has put dozens at immediate risk of...
Iranian activist who publicly removed her headscarf as an act of civil disobedience and campaigned against mandatory hijab arrested in Iran and later left the country.
