Female political prisoners in Iran facing ‘psychological torture’, say campaigners

Reports of deteriorating treatment of human rights activists, with an increase in moves to dangerous' jails often far from families

Female human rights activists imprisoned in Iran face increased jail terms and transfers to prisons with dangerous and alarming" conditions, hundreds of miles away from their families, according to campaigners.

Warnings of the deteriorating treatment of female prisoners in Iran come days after Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian national who has served a five-year prison sentence in Iran, was sentenced to a further year in jail and a year-long travel ban by the Iranian courts.