News Center— The escalation of security pressures on women in Iran is raising growing rights concerns, with documented cases of arbitrary detention and opaque trials targeting them, in an environment that heightens risks to their safety.

The human rights news agency "Hrana" issued a report today, Friday, August 21, addressing the escalation of repression targeting Kurdish women activists in Iran, the Kurdistan Region, and eastern Kurdistan. According to the report, the Urmia Intelligence Directorate has detained Nazanin Hosseinpour, 34, a mother of two, whose whereabouts remain unknown to date.

According to available information, Nazanin Hosseinpour was summoned to the Intelligence Directorate before being detained without disclosure of the reasons for her arrest or her location, despite her family's repeated inquiries. She has also been prevented from meeting a lawyer or communicating with her family.

In a related context, reports indicated that the Bojnord Criminal Court has sentenced Kurdish young woman Zahra Rabbani, 18, to 15 months and two days in prison, along with a fine of 6 million tomans. She is scheduled to serve seven months and sixteen days of the sentence in prison.

Zahra Rabbani was arrested for her participation in the protests that the country witnessed at the beginning of this year, and was charged with "assembly and collaboration with the intent to commit crimes against internal security" and "manufacturing, transporting, and distributing explosives." She had been summoned to the police station for interrogation in January and was forced to sign a pledge not to participate in protests, but she was arrested the following day, before being released after 45 days of detention.