Weekly Rights Podcast 19

In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: Shahla Jahed was executed after spending eight years in Evin prison on charges of stabbing the wife of soccer star Nasser Mohammadkhani; Ebrahim Yazdi, an eighty year old activist, is still in prison as the Campaign calls for his release; the court date for the remaining two American hikers in prison has come and gone, while their lawyer Massoud Shafiee has been unable to see them; religious scholar Ahmad Ghabel is standing trial for going public with information about mass executions at Vakilabad prison; journalist Hengameh Shahidi has reportedly been taken to Evin prison’s infirmary after going on hunger strike upon her return to prison on 15 November; UN human rights chief Navi Pillay meets with 30 prosecutors and judges in Iran; and student activist Ali Gholizadeh remains in prison without visitation rights.