The hunger strike, announced by Narges Mohammadi, a journalist and activist enduring solitary confinement for years, is a reaction to the execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou.

CFWIJ and WPF vehemently denounces the Iranian regime's additional punitive sentences against Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi and journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was denied access to her lawyer in Evin Prison due to her refusal to comply with the compulsory hijab rule.

Arrested Iranian journalists Alieh Motalebzadeh and Narges Mohammadi were transferred to Qarchak women’s prison in Varamin.

State authorities continue to persecute women journalists in the country in an attempt to silence the valid human rights concerns they raise. On September 26, Narges Mohammadi confirmed that the courts have sentenced her to prison due to the nature of her work. Less than a month later on October 20, Mehrnoush Tafian's prison sentence was also announced by judicial authorities. The country has a long and worrying history of targeting and silencing women journalists by subjecting them to long prison sentences and the latest example of sentencing two journalists for merely doing their job adds to this concerning trend.