; (5) Narges Mohammadi, a prominent rights advocate, who— (A) was sentenced to 10 years in prison in May 2015 for establishing an illegal group , assembly and collusion to act against national security , and propaganda against the state ; (B) was arrested in November 2019 (on the second anniversary of countrywide protests) and rearrested in 2021; and (C) had her prison sentence extended in October 2022 to 11 years and 9 months; (6) former Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, Shahindokht Molaverdi, who was charged with encouraging corruption, prostitution, and sexual deviance , a common charge against women refusing mandatory hijab laws, and sentenced in December 2020 to 30 months in prison for defending the right of women to attend sporting events and criticizing the practice of child marriage; (7) 6 women who were sentenced by the Culture and Media Court of Tehran in July 2022 to each serve 1 year in prison for the offense of singing songs in public; (8) Niloufar Hamedi, who was one of the first Iranian journalists to report on Mahsa Amini’s death, who was arrested on September 22, 2022, and is being held in solitary confinement; and (9) countless other women; Whereas the Iranian regime consistently commits a range of human rights abuses in addition to its systematic persecution of women and peaceful protesters, including— (1) unlawful or arbitrary killings and torture; (2) trials without due process; (3) forced disappearances; (4) arbitrary arrest and detention; (5) life-threatening prison conditions; (6) transnational attacks against dissidents; and (7) severe restrictions on free expression and the media, peaceful assembly and association, and religious freedom; Whereas Freedom House ranks the Government of Iran as one of the worst human rights violators in the world, with a Global Freedom Score of 14 out of 100 and an Internet Freedom Score of 16 out of 100; Whereas peaceful protests in Iran during 2022 have focused on grievances such as— (1) mismanagement of the economy and national resources