Additional Name(s): سارا متقی

Gender: Female

Current Location: Lakan Prison, Rasht

Perpetrator: Iran

Religion or Belief: Unspecified

Reports of Torture: No

Reports of Medical Neglect: No

Date of Detainment: February/28/2023

Current Status: Not Released

Religious Leader: No

Most Recent Type of Abuse: Detainment

Reason for Persecution: Blasphemy (General) Blasphemy (Religious Figures) Women’s Rights

Nature of Charges: Blasphemy Unlawful Disobedience

Sara Mottaghi

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Sara Mottaghi is detained for blasphemy.

On February 28, 2023, authorities in Rasht arrested Mottaghi, a poet, for writing about an ancient Iranian day celebrating women. Authorities reportedly deemed the writing as insulting to Islam. Mottaghi was reportedly charged with “insulting the sacred” and “publishing protest calls.” She was sent to Lakan Prison in Rasht.

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