Quote:Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, a 67-year-old Iranian political prisoner, has been sentenced to death by Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in Rasht — marking the first time a woman supporter of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) has received such a sentence.

Her “crime,” according to regime authorities, was possessing a small piece of fabric inscribed with the slogan “Woman, Resistance, Freedom” and an unpublished voice message. The trial, held online, lasted less than ten minutes, without a real defense. Her court-appointed lawyer offered no resistance, and the verdict was issued immediately. She now has only ten days to appeal while held in Lakan Prison in Rasht.

Quote:Femena strongly condemns the death sentence handed down to Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, a 67-year-old Iranian political prisoner, on charges of alleged collaboration with groups opposing the Islamic Republic. The sentence was issued by a revolutionary court in Rasht following a deeply flawed and unjust legal process.

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The verdict was delivered last week by Judge Ahmad Darvish of Branch One of the Rasht Revolutionary Court after a brief video hearing lasting less than ten minutes. Her family has described the proceedings as a “sham” and “illegal.” Shahbaz Tabari was denied access to an independent lawyer, and the court-appointed attorney reportedly failed to defend her, instead endorsing the pre-determined verdict.

Iran: Over 1,000 people executed as authorities step up horrifying assault on right to life, Amnesty International Iranian authorities have executed over 1,000 people thus far in 2025, the highest number of yearly executions in Iran that the organization has recorded in at least 15 years, said Amnesty International. The organization is calling on the Iranian authorities to establish an immediate moratorium on executions as a first step, and issuing an urgent plea on other states to immediately intervene to pressure the Iranian authorities to halt all planned executions.

Within less than nine months, the number of people executed by the Iranian authorities so far this year has already surpassed last year’s grim total of 972 executions.

Since the 2022 Woman Life Freedom uprising, the Iranian authorities increased their use of the death penalty as a tool of state repression and to crush dissent, and amid an ongoing spike in executions for drug-related offences.

Quote:On November 27, 2025, a group of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) stood up for Zahra Tabari, a 67-year-old engineer and political prisoner who supports the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), echoing her voice within the halls of the European Parliament. Tabari was sentenced to death by the Iranian clerical regime’s judiciary following a sham 10-minute trial orchestrated by its executioners.
Several MEPs, holding photographs of the condemned woman, officially denounced the ruling as unjust and tyrannical, urging the regime to stop executions in Iran and break the vicious cycle of repression and terror.

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Aftonbladet, auto-translated from Swedish After more than six months of silence, Soroush Samak, 36, was able to contact his mother from inside the Iranian prison.

"I go to bed with the fear of losing her and wake up with the hope of seeing her free. I hadn't heard her voice in seven months until last week. Then she told me about how the legal process has been," he says.

He and his mother Zahra Tabari came to Sweden in 2005 along with several other Iranian citizens to study.

She chose a master's program in sustainable energy at the University of Borås. Three years later, when it was time to return home to Iran, her son Souroush Samak stayed in town.

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Zahra Tabari was accused of having connections with the Mujahedin resistance movement.

For that, she has now been sentenced to death.

"According to her, she is not guilty of anything. She has never been a member of the organization, not even when she was young," says Soroush Samak.

Iran Focus On December 10, 2025, the European Parliament served as the stage for a critical convergence of Iranian opposition leaders and Western policymakers. Marking International Human Rights Day, a high-profile conference hosted in Brussels brought together Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), alongside a coalition of former ministers, lawmakers, and international legal experts.
The proceedings focused on a stark dual reality: the Iranian regime’s unprecedented escalation of executions and the simultaneous consolidation of an organized resistance movement. Speakers detailed a human rights crisis that has surpassed historical benchmarks while outlining a “Third Option” for the international community—a policy framework that rejects both appeasement and foreign military intervention, relying instead on the Iranian people to dismantle the religious dictatorship.

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Kumi Naidoo, former Secretary-General of Amnesty International, focused on the demographics driving this movement. He described Iranian women and the Resistance Units as “the heartbeat of the nationwide struggle.” Citing the case of Zahra Tabari, a 67-year-old engineer sentenced to death for holding a banner reading “Woman, Resistance, Freedom,” Naidoo argued that such extreme repression reveals the regime’s “political weakness” and fear of its own citizens.

CSDHI article — It is time to end moral cowardice: the EU must confront Iran's reign of terror. (Auto-translated) The time for appeasement and "moral cowardice" is over. The European Union must recognize that defending human rights in Iran is not an ideological preference but the very heart of its diplomatic mission.

CSDHI article — It is time to end moral cowardice: the EU must confront Iran's reign of terror. (Auto-translated) Despite the regime's efforts to instill fear — including through public executions or by targeting activists like 67-year-old engineer Zahra Tabari — the flame of resistance has never been extinguished.

CSDHI — Who are we? (Auto-translated) The Committee for the Support of Human Rights in Iran (CSDHI) was founded in December 2004 by victims of the regime's repression in Iran who had sought refuge in France. According to its statutes, the association's objective is to promote human rights in Iran, to support parties and organizations fighting for democracy in Iran, and to encourage and organize actions and demonstrations against human rights violations in Iran at the international level.