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Azadeh Bokaie Dadgar

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Azadeh Bokaie Dadgar
Born(1980-08-06)August 6, 1980
Occupations
  • Lawyer
  • Journalist
  • Editor
  • Women's rights activist
Years active1999–present
ChildrenAndiya

Azadeh Bokaie Dadgar (Persian: آزاده بُکایی دادگر, born August 6, 1980) is an Iranian lawyer, journalist, editor, and women's rights activist.

Early life

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Azadeh Bokaie Dadgar was born on August 6, 1980, in Arak, Iran. She has a four-year-old daughter named Andiya.

Career

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She began writing with the Lalleh Sorkh newspaper in Arak at the age of 19, and later became the editor of the Atreyas newspaper.[1]

Arrests

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In 2017, she was arrested after the Iranian Presidential Elections. Radio Deutschland[2] and the Human Rights Organization of Iran[3] criticized this arrest. In 2018, during protests in January, she was arrested again at her mother's house. In the same year, she was arrested a second time by the Markazi Intelligence Organization. In total, Azadeh Bokai has been arrested more than 3 times by Iranian law enforcement, judicial, and intelligence agencies.[4][5][6][7]

Awards

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In 2015 and 2016, on National Reporter's Day in Iran, she was acknowledged as the most active and most experienced female reporter in the province of Markazi, Iran.

References

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  1. ^ "پایگاه خبری روزنامه عطریاس - آخرین اخبار استان مرکزی". Archived from the original on February 6, 2018. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
  2. ^ Persian Radio Deutschland [permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Archived copy Archived February 17, 2022, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ خبرنگار روزنامه عطر یاس اراک آزاد شد ILNA (in Persian) Archived 31 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Bashariyat Halgheh [permanent dead link]
  6. ^ Radio Zamaneh [permanent dead link]
  7. ^ خبرنگار روزنامه عطر یاس اراک آزاد شد Archived 3 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine