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Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences

Summary by Center for Human Rights in Iran
At Least 19 Writers and Poets Targeted in 2025, One Sentenced to Death “Lawyers working on such cases face threats, stigmatization, fabricated charges, arrest and disbarment” May 20, 2025 — An intensifying campaign of repression is sweeping across Iran, targeting poets, writers, and literary figures in a bid to silence independent voices. Over the past four and a half months alone, at least 19 individuals have been arrested, summoned, or interro…
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Center for Human Rights in Iran broke the news in Iran, Islamic Republic of on Tuesday, May 20, 2025.
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