Shiva Nazar Ahari (; born June 10, 1984) is an Iranian human rights activist and a founding member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters. She has been jailed several times by the Iranian government.Courageous and Principled: Shiva Nazar Ahari
Early life She was jailed on 14 June 2009 and held in the Evin prison until September 23, 2009, when she was released on an equivalent of a $200,000 bail. She had been in solitary confinement for 33 days.Women's rights activist and lawyer violently arrested in Iran, says Amnesty International , July 17, 2009
On December 21, 2009, she was arrested once again along with several other activists who were on their way to the city of Qom to attend the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri.Number of Activists Arrested on the Way to Qom , Persian2English blog, December 21, 2009
The most recent hearing was held on September 4, 2010, at the 26th branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court of the Tehran province, with charges including "attempts to deface the Islamic government", "assembly with intention of conspiring against the Islamic government", "disrupting the public order" and moharebeh or "waging war against God". Since her arrest, the court proceeding has met with strong international criticism, the allegation being that it was an illegal measure taken by the Islamic Republic of Iran to further repress the rights of dissent and freedom of speech in the country, and her immediate release has been called for.Iran: Human rights defender must be released: Further Information, 23 August 2010Petition for the release of blogger and activist Shiva Nazar AhariTAKE ACTION | Global Campaign in Support of Shiva Nazar Ahari: “We Are All Shiva”CAMPAIGN IN SUPPORT OF SHIVA NAZAR AHARI Human right defender detained at Evin prisonCourageous and Principled: Shiva Nazar Ahari by MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles, 28 August 2010 After 266 days in prison, she was released on September 12, 2010, on a bail of five billion Iranian rials (roughly equivalent to over $500,000).
Per a summons, Shiva Nazar Ahari appeared at Evin on September 8, 2012, to serve a 4-year prison sentence.Islamic Republic jails two more women journalists Reporters without borders, 10 Sep. 2012 A number of organizations call for her immediate release – Reporters without borders, World association of newspapers and news publishers or PEN International.Shiva Nazar Ahari, Iran, jailed since September 2012, World association of newspapers and news publishersShiva Nazar Ahari, Iran, Journalist, activist and blogger , PEN International
Since October 2018 Shiva Nazar Ahari has been living in Ljubljana (Slovenia), where she resettled with the help of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN).A day will come that our struggle makes the world a better place to live in: ICORN, vom 8 March 2019
Awards On Sunday, March 13, 2011, it was announced that Shiva Nazar Ahari was the 2011 recipient of the for "courageous internet reporting on human rights violations". The prize is named after Theodor Haecker, a philosopher, writer and anti-Nazi cultural critic.
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