The use of prisoners as bargaining chips in order to coerce other governments to provide concessions is a cruel policy” A group of prominent academics, policy experts, former government officials, parliamentarians and diplomats released a statement on September 15, 2020, calling on the Government of Iran to ...
Imprisonment of Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders, Juvenile Executions, Singled Out for Condemnation In the latest report by the UN’s top expert on Iran, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, expressed “alarm” and “dismay” over ...
French Government “Condemns” Unjust Decision Against Fariba Adelkhah The five-year prison sentence of French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, held at Evin Prison since June 2019 on manufactured national security charges, has been upheld by the Appeals Court in Iran. Iranian Judiciary spokesperson Gholam-Hossein Esmaili said at a June 30, 2020 ...
At least 14 dual and foreign nationals, as well as foreign permanent residents, are currently imprisoned in Iran ...