International protest is forming against the threatened execution of Zahra Tabari. The Iranian activist simply held up a poster with a slogan.
Dec 24, 2025, 06:14Dec 24, 2025, 06:14
Her crime was that during a demonstration she held up a piece of cloth with three words written on it: “Mrs. Resistance. Freedom”. That was enough for the Iranian mullahs’ regime to sentence retired engineer Zahra Tabari to death. This is what the anti-government Iranian portal “Iran Wire” reports, among others.
Zahra Tabari was sentenced to death in Iran.Image: x
On April 17 of this year, five police officers broke into the 67-year-old’s apartment in the northern Iraqi city of Rasht and arrested the woman. They confiscated Tabari’s cell phone and computer and took them away. She is now awaiting execution in the notorious Lakan prison in Rasht. In the prison, prisoners are said to be held in inhumane conditions, as non-governmental organizations report. Among other things, torture is said to occur there.
More than 400 prominent women from all over the world, including four Nobel Prize winners and former presidents and heads of government, have now written a joint letter calling for the activist’s immediate release. The letter, initiated by the London-based organization Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI), said that Tabari should be executed “solely for holding up a banner saying ‘Woman, Resistance, Freedom’.”
The words on the banner are a variation of the slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” that was popular during the nationwide wave of protests in Iran in 2022. The protests were sparked by the death of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in police custody.