Iran: Prisoners of conscience/fear of torture or other ill-treatment

Index Number: MDE 13/130/2007
Date Published: 7 November 2007
Categories: Iran, Middle East And North Africa

Women's rights activists, Ronak Safarzadeh and Hana Abdi, aged 21, have been detained in the city of Sanandaj, and are believed to be held in a Ministry of Intelligence detention facility. Neither is known to have been charged. They are at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. Amnesty International considers them prisoners of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of their rights to freedom of expression and association.