Urgent action is needed to stop the killing of political prisoners in Iran. Recently, appeals against the death sentences of three feminists – Pakhshan Azizi, Sharifeh Mohammadi, and Varisheh Moradi – were rejected. Their execution is imminent. The executioners are ready. It could happen at any moment.

Among them, Varisheh Moradi, a Kurdish feminist imprisoned in Evin prison, is in a critical health condition. Injured in the fight against the Islamic State group, she still has shrapnel in her body that causes her excruciating pain. Never treated, she has been left to her suffering by a regime that is punishing her for resisting Islamist barbarism. Her condition has recently worsened to the point that the authorities had to transfer her to hospital. Doctors there, like those in the prison clinic, confirmed that she urgently needed tests, treatment and surgery. Yet, it has all been denied. She continues to be deprived of medical care and medication.

Through women's bodies, the repressive regime targets the Jin, jiyan, azadî movement ("woman, life, freedom" in Kurdish), sparked in 2022 by the resistance and killing of Jina Mahsa Amini and carried forward by contemporary witches: those who dance under bullets proclaiming the urgency of freedom, secularism, democracy and social justice.

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