Rapper Toomaj Salehi was arrested in October 2022 amid nationwide protests against the regime.
The activist and her family were repeatedly threatened by the regime during the protests that swept Iran in 2022.
Last year, Shervin Hajipour won the Special Merit Award for Best Song For Social Change for his song Baraye at the GRAMMYs.
Polls conducted in recent weeks have found that voter participation in the upcoming elections in Iran may be as low as 15%.
Safa Aeli was arrested from his home in September shortly before the one-year anniversary of the killing of his niece.
Khezrnejad was arrested in 2022 after delivering a speech at the memorial ceremony of a man killed in anti-government protests.
Regime authorities denied that the student had been arrested by security forces, claiming that he committed suicide.
Qobadlou was sentenced to death in late 2022, in the middle of the protests, on charges of killing a police officer and of "corruption on earth."
The incident took place amid the widespread protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who died in the hospital after being arrested by the country’s morality police.
The European Parliament recently decided to grant a prestigious human rights award to Mahsa Amini and Iranian protesters.
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