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13:17

Iranian singer Hiwa Seyfizadeh was arrested by Iran’s security forces during a live performance in Tehran on Thursday.

12:53

Iranian human rights defender Sharifeh Mohammadi is at risk of execution after a Revolutionary Court in Rasht sentenced her to death again in February 2025, Amnesty International said Thursday in a post on X.

11:23

At least 56 Baloch children have been killed by Iran’s security forces since 2017, the Baloch Activists Campaign (BAC) said in a statement on Thursday.

10:00

“We kept working for women and girls despite Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip,” said Suhair Khader, President of the Union of Palestinian Women's Committees (UPWC).

06:58

After a meeting with Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan in the prison island of Imrali, the Imrali Delegation read the historic “Call for Peace and Democracy” from Abdullah Öcalan in a press conference on Thursday.

15:48

The Iranian Parliament rejected Wednesday a proposal to introduce literature classes in local and ethnic languages in schools.

10:39

The death toll from recent rainstorms and flash floods across Afghanistan has risen to 37, the Taliban authorities said on Wednesday.

09:31

Climate-related extreme weather events have increased by 400% in the region in the past 50 years, the WHO Regional Office for Europe said Wednesday on social media platform X.

09:30

Yazidi and Arab women in Shengal (Sinjar) have been getting ready to celebrate the International Women’s Day, calling on all women to say, “Enough is Enough” and to stand against oppression and restrictions.

09:29

Tunisia’s Decree-Law No 54 of 2022 on cybercrime is a crackdown on media and freedom of expression, said Tunisian journalist Jihan Al-Lawati. “Freedom of expression and the media is at risk in Tunisia.”

07:41

“The unity of the people can liberate Syria from occupation,” said Remziye Mohammed, Co-chair of the Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM).

14:46

Atefeh Tahernia, a resident of Iran’s Dehdasht city, has been released on bail from the Yasuj Prison.

11:21

“All Syrian women must play their role in building the new Syria. They should play an active role in drafting the new constitution,” said Rîma Îsa, coordinating member of Mala Jin (Women’s House) of North and East Syria.

10:19

Nayereh Behnoud, a political prisoner held in Evin Prison, has been sentenced to five years in prison by the Revolutionary Court of Tehran.

09:50

Jinnews news director Öznur Değer has been reportedly exiled from Mardin E-type Women's Closed Prison to the Erzincan Prison.

09:33

The legacy of resistance of Arîn Mirkan and Rêvana Rojava, who defeated ISIS by carrying out suicide actions despite those who said, “Kobanê has fallen, it will fall”, continues in North and East Syria.

08:00

“A 50 percent gender quota system is implemented in North and East Syria,” MEP Katrin Langensiepen told NuJINHA during her visit to Sweida. “This system is not in words but in practice.”

12:49

The Zenubya Women’s Community, Kongra Star and 34 organizations issued a joint statement, stressing that the National Dialogue being held in Damascus “does not represent the hope of the Syrian people for building a democratic Syria.”

11:33

62 political prisoners, including Pakhshan Azizi, Verisheh (Warisha) Moradi and Sharifeh Mohammadi, have been sentenced to death in Iran, according to the “No to Execution, Yes to Free Life” campaign group.

11:30

“It’s time for the displaced people to return to their homes,” said Zehra Semo, Co-chair of the Social Affairs Committee in the Jazira region, criticizing Syria’s new interim government for not taking action for displaced people.