Nahid Shaghaghi, Women’s Rights Activist, Arrested at Her Home

Nahid Shaghaghi, a civil rights activist, has been arrested by security forces and transferred to an undisclosed location.

According to a report by the Telegram channel “Women’s Voice Iran,” “Nahid Shaghaghi,” a women’s rights and children’s rights activist, was arrested on Wednesday, May 15, following a raid by security forces on her private residence and the breaking down of her door. She has been transferred to an undisclosed location.

According to this report, Nahid Shaghaghi’s brother wrote on his Instagram: “During a call Nahid made this morning, she informed me about the presence of intelligence officers outside her home’s door, and when I arrived at her residence, I found the door broken and a house whose owner is not there. We have no information about the place of detention or even the nature of those who arrested her. Our inquiries at Evin Prison and the police station in her residential area have yielded no results, and we remain in uncertainty and worry.”

Nahid Shaghaghi is an activist for women’s rights and children’s rights, and in recent years has given speeches at seminars of the “Women’s Voice Iran” group about violence against women.

Last February, Amnesty International in a report called 2018 the “Year of Shame” for the Islamic Republic and announced that in that year more than seven thousand people, including protest participants, students, journalists, women’s rights activists, environmental activists, labor activists, and activists for ethnic rights and religious minorities in Iran, were arrested, and hundreds were imprisoned.

Source: Voice of America