UN asked to intervene in Iran after the arrest of two women whose families were victims of violence
The United Nations has been asked to intervene in a matter of Iran by the leaders of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), who demanded the release of two women after their families were found to be targets of the Iranian regime. As per reports, the Iranian regime has used violence on the families of these two women, one of which is a political prisoner. NCRI gave its report to the UN saying that Iran’s Revolutionary Guard had forcibly removed political prisoner Maryam Akbari from a women’s ward and transferred her to Semnan Prison. This was after 12 years she had already stayed in Evin Prison. The NCRI president Maryam Rajavi said that even though prisoners protested and stood against their call, IRG had physically dragged Akbaru Monfared from the cell and also hurt her while doing so. The union’s president also told the United Nations that Iran’s regime had already executed three of Akbari Monfared’s brothers and a sister. The details were also given by ...