Tehran's suppression of widespread protests for women's rights has resulted in more than 14,000 people being detained by the end of the year. Dozens of writers were among them.
With those arrests, Iran registered the largest increase globally in jailed writers between 2021 and 2022, with 39 new cases of detention or imprisonment in 2022, according to the 2022 Freedom to Write Index by freedom of expression group PEN America.
Iran is now the second worst jailer of writers in the world, with 57 writers jailed in 2022, the index said. Читать дальше...