Humanitarian worker and human rights defender Pakhshan Azizi, from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish minority, is at risk of imminent execution. On 5 February, her lawyers were notified that Branch Nine of the Supreme Court rejected her request for judicial review. In July 2024, a Revolutionary Court sentenced her to death following a grossly unfair trial solely in relation to her peaceful humanitarian and human rights activities. In January 2025, the Supreme Court upheld the sentence. Her allegations of torture and other ill-treatment were never investigated.
