Mary Mohammadi

She is a writer, analyst, and freelance investigative journalist on human rights and political issues in Iran, particularly women’s rights and Christians’ rights; with more than 6 years of experience in these fields in Iran and the US.

She was awarded the annual prize of “The Stephanus Foundation for Persecuted Christians”, one of the biggest German-based foundations, in 2023, for her selfishness and bravery in informing the situation of Christian converts and human rights violations in Iran.

Based on her lived experience within and without Iran as an activist, dissident of the Islamic Republic of Iran, woman, converted Christian with an Islamic background, and former political prisoner, she thoroughly acquaints with the nature of the Islamic Republic, security issues and a wide range of forms of persecution in Iran.

She cooperated with Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) for more than four years from 2018 until 2022, even during her own imprisonment time, as a freelance correspondent and investigative journalist. After years of highly risky investigative journalism efforts, in 2019 the US sanctioned two prisons in Iran due to the extreme prisoners' rights violation by the Islamic Republic of Iran.Their team was from the rare teams and individuals that were involved in this achievement.

She, as a freelancer, interviewed activists, victims of human rights violations, and their family members. Moreover, she wrote many impactful analyses, articles, photo reports, field reports, and opinion pieces for years regarding women's rights, Christians’ rights as an unrecognized religious minority, serial killings, Iranian elections, laborers‘ rights, social, cultural and economic issues and oppression against vulnerable groups in various platforms such as the Peace-Mark journal.

She also writes news reports covering Iran’s issues that are translated into German and published by ISHR organization.

She writes opinion pieces in the Iranian Me Too Movement.