Ferouz, former editor-in-chief of the women’s magazine Jahan-e-Zanan and secretary of the Democratic Association of Women, the women’s branch of the Communist Party, is believed to have been held since the early 1980s without charge or trial and reportedly has been tortured. There are reports that due to her poor health and advanced age (she is in her late seventies) Ferouz has been transferred to a nursing home.
