Roya Toloui
Iranian journalist
Roya Toloui (Kurdish: رۆیا توولۆیی, romanized: Roya Tûloyî; born May 22, 1966, in Baneh, Kurdistan province, Iran) is a prominent Kurdish-Iranian journalist, human rights activist and feminist She was born in Baneh in western Iran. She received her high school diploma at Baneh and her PhD in pathology from University of Mashad. Since 2006, she has lived in the United States.
Life
She was the editor-in-chief of Rassan (Rising up), a Kurdish monthly magazine about women's issues. Three issues of the magazine were published in Sanandaj in spring and summer of 2005 until it was closed down in the summer of 2005 by the Iranian judiciary. She is the founder of the Association of the Kurdish Women Supporting Peace in Kurdistan. She is also a member of the Kurdish PEN.
Due to her outspoken criticism of authorities as well as defense of the rights of Kurdish and Iranian women, she was tried in a Revolutionary Court in April 2005 and was accused of endangering national security.
Following demonstrations in Kurdish inhabited areas of western Iran, including protests after the killing of Shivan Qaderi, she was arrested on 2 August 2005, and held in prison for 66 days until freed on bail in October 2005. She said that during her arrest she was kept in solitary confinement and subjected to torture. She gave false confessions after being threatened that her children would be brought to the prison and burned to death.
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