Iranian Women Lawyers Arrested, Silenced in War's Shadow

0:00Iranian human rights lawyer Nazirun So today got detained overnight at her Tehran home by intelligence agents. The 64-year-old defender of activists, opposition figures, and women challenging headscarf laws has faced prison multiple times and was out on, bail for health issues. Her daughter confirmed it from Amsterdam through family messages, since communication blackouts make direct contact nearly impossible. This arrest hits amid Iran's harsh crackdown on dissent, ramped up since the war with the U.S. and Israel, kicked off February 28th. Authorities have grabbed hundreds for talking to foreign media and sped up executions of protesters. Just days earlier, So today slammed the regime's war policies in an overseas interview, calling them a path to death, and criticized the brutal. Response to January's massive protests. Her activist husband, Reza Condon, sits in Tehran's notorious Evan Prison right now, and all their home devices got seized. Family worries the war's noise will bury these voices, with the regime dropping any old

1:02limits on repression. Separately, Nobel Peace Prize winner, Nargayz Mahamadi, 53, might have had a heart attack March 24th in Zanjan Prison. Her lawyers saw her last week, emaciated, weak, wheeled in by a nurse, while airstrikes hit nearby, spiking fears for her safety. She's added seven years to her sentence since last December. As these bold women fight on despite the risks, Iran's silencing tactics grow bolder and wartime shadows, leaving the world straining to hear there. Call. That wraps Canada News today, brought to you with AI.