Iran urged to release rights defender Narges Mohmmadi
Narges Mohmmadi was sentenced to eight years in prison following a five-minute trial.
Human Rights Watch called on Iran to "immediately and unconditionally" release Narges Mohmmadi, a prominent human rights campaigner sent back to prison this week.
Tara Sepehrifar, senior Iran researcher at HRW, said Friday that Mohmmadi’s “cruel detention and prosecution” was “clearly intended to crush her into silence at all costs.”
Mohmmadi was the spokesperson for the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran and campaigned against Iran’s use of the death penalty. After serving more than eight years in an Iranian prison on trumped-up national security charges, Mohmmadi’s 16-year sentence was cut short and she was released in October 2020.
In November 2021, Mohmmadi was rearrested after attending a memorial service for an individual killed during Iran’s deadly crackdown on nationwide protests in November 2019.
