Fereshteh Ghazi is an Iranian journalist and human rights activist.
In 2004 she worked for the newspaper
Etemad
''Etemad'' or ''Etemaad'' (in Persian ''اعتماد'' lit. ''Trust''; correct transcription: ettemād, because in pronunciation the letter "t" is duplicated) is a reformist newspaper in Iran that is published in Tehran. It is managed by Elias ...
.
She is well known for the coverage of
Zahra Kazemi
Zahra "Ziba" Kazemi-Ahmadabadi ( fa, زهرا کاظمی احمدآبادی; 1948 – 11 July 2003) was an Iranian-Canadian freelance photojournalist. She gained notoriety for her arrest in Iran and the circumstances in which she was held by I ...
's murder in
Evin prison. She was herself arrested and imprisoned on two occasions in 2004
During her imprisonment she shared a cell with
Shahla Jahed
Khadijeh Shahla Jahed (10 May 1969 – 1 December 2010) was an Iranian nurse who was sentenced to death for her involvement in the murder of her boyfriend's wife. She was hanged on 1 December 2010, being the 146th person to be executed in Iran in ...
. Upon her release, Ghazi was taken directly to a hospital for treatment due to her poor physical and mental condition.
Ghazi is married to Ahmad Begloo,
[ who is a musician.]
See also
*Iranian women's movement
The Iranian Women's Rights Movement ( Persian: جنبش زنان ایران), is the social movement for women's rights of the women in Iran. The movement first emerged after the Iranian Constitutional Revolution in 1910, the year in which the ...
References
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Iranian journalists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)