Inter Press ServiceClare Quirk - Author - Inter Press Service https://www.ipsnews.net/author/clare-quirk/ News and Views from the Global South Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:42:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 ‘I am one who dies for life, not one who lives for death’ – Kurdish Political Prisoner Pakhshan Azizi https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/09/i-am-one-who-dies-for-life-not-one-who-lives-for-death-kurdish-political-prisoner-pakhshan-azizi/ https://www.ipsnews.net/2026/09/i-am-one-who-dies-for-life-not-one-who-lives-for-death-kurdish-political-prisoner-pakhshan-azizi/#respond Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:51:48 +0000 Clare Quirk https://www.ipsnews.net/?p=196400 Pakhshan Azizi and a child. Photo credit: Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (WNCRI)

Pakhshan Azizi and a child. Photo credit: Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (WNCRI)

By Clare Quirk
JOHANNESBURG, Sep 1 2026 (IPS)

In 2024, Kurdish social worker Pakhshan Azizi was sentenced to death. She remains incarcerated in Evin Prison, Tehran, Iran. This is her story …

Please read her letter from prison here.

For more on Civicus’s Stand as My Witness Campaign.

Additional reporting and research: Cecilia Russell
Picture credits: Kurdistan Human Rights, BBC Persian, Clare Quirk, Wikipedia, CY Boechat (VOA)/Wikimedia Commons, UNICEF, Civicus, Amnesty International, ANF News, Vida Rabbani, Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (WNCRI)

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