Zahra Sediqi Hamdani, 31 years old, and Elham Chobdar, 24 years old, two LGBTQ activists in Iran
Amnesty International announced in a statement that IRGC agents threatened Zahra Sediqi Hamdani, an LGBTQ activist, with execution, physical harm and deprivation of custody of her two young children. This institution has asked Iran to release him who has been in detention for three months.
This human rights organization said in a statement that it published today: "Zahra Sediqi Hamdani, known as Sara, is a human rights defender belonging to the LGBTI community simply because of her sexual orientation and identity. His real or assumed gender, as well as his posts and statements on social networks in defense of the rights of LGBT people, against international standards and arbitrarily, is under arrest in the central prison of Urmia.
Amnesty International emphasized that he was arrested on May 14, 1400, near the Iran-Turkey border by the agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.