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Unfair Trials

Iran Must Stop Imprisoning Lawyers for Defending Their Clients

Iran Must Stop Imprisoning Lawyers for Defending Their Clients

October 30, 2018

Mohammad Najafi is the Seventh Attorney to Be Sent to Prison in Last Six Months, Six Remain Behind Bars October 30, 2018—Iran’s sentencing of attorney Mohammad Najafi to three years in prison and 74 lashes ...

Lawyer Who Sought Justice for Death of Detainee in Iranian Custody Sentenced to Three Years, 74 Lashes

Lawyer Who Sought Justice for Death of Detainee in Iranian Custody Sentenced to Three Years, 74 Lashes

October 29, 2018

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Why Was Teachers’ Rights Activist Hashem Khastar Sent to a Mental Hospital With No Signs of Illness?

Why Was Teachers’ Rights Activist Hashem Khastar Sent to a Mental Hospital With No Signs of Illness?

October 29, 2018

Khastar Was Tending to a Garden When “Plainclothes” Agents Arrested Him *Editor's Update: Teachers’ rights activist HashemKhastar was released November 10, 2018, from the psychiatric facility in Mashhad where he had been illegally held since October 23. Teachers’ ...

Iran’s Judiciary Should Release Ailing Prisoner Saeed Malekpour on Medical Grounds

Iran’s Judiciary Should Release Ailing Prisoner Saeed Malekpour on Medical Grounds

October 26, 2018

Imprisoned in Iran's Evin Prison since 2008, Canadian permanent resident Saeed Malekpour was hospitalized for a "heart attack" at the age of 43, according to his sister. Peaceful Prisoner, Convicted ...

Iran Charges Environmentalists With National Security Crimes

Iran Charges Environmentalists With National Security Crimes

October 23, 2018

Prosecutions Lacking Due Process Aimed at Deflecting Attention from Death of One of the Detainees October 23, 2018 – Nine months after a group of environmentalists were imprisoned in Iran without any evidence of wrongdoing ...

Farhad Meysami’s “Life Is In Danger” Two Months Into Debilitating Hunger Strike

Farhad Meysami’s “Life Is In Danger” Two Months Into Debilitating Hunger Strike

October 19, 2018

"He has been tied to the bed and injected with serum." Imprisoned rights activist Reza Khandan has warned Iranian authorities that another fellow political prisoner could die if he is not allowed immediate medical ...

Four Teachers Detained in Iran and Several Others Summoned to Court After Peaceful Sit-In

Four Teachers Detained in Iran and Several Others Summoned to Court After Peaceful Sit-In

October 19, 2018

Security Forces Hijack Teachers’ Union Telegram Channel Four teachers who participated in a peaceful sit-in for teachers’ and education rights in Iran this week remain behind bars ...

Imprisoned Activist Farhad Meysami “Kept Alive” With IV Drip

Imprisoned Activist Farhad Meysami “Kept Alive” With IV Drip

October 18, 2018

Farhad Meysami, an imprisoned civil rights activist, has lost “40 pounds” since beginning a wet hunger strike in Evin Prison on August 1, 2018, the ...

Teachers Strike Across Iran Demanding Education Reformation

Teachers Strike Across Iran Demanding Education Reformation

October 17, 2018

 Classes were cancelled in several cities across Iran this week as teachers demanded the ...

Kurdish Political Prisoners Denied Access to Lawyer, Family Visits Two Months into Detention

Kurdish Political Prisoners Denied Access to Lawyer, Family Visits Two Months into Detention

October 15, 2018

Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostad-Ghader Held at Intelligence Ministry’s Sanandaj Center Kurdish political prisoners Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostad-Ghader continue to be denied legal counsel and ...

Great Tehran Penitentiary Imposes Information Blackout on Eight Sufi Detainees Held in Solitary Confinement

Great Tehran Penitentiary Imposes Information Blackout on Eight Sufi Detainees Held in Solitary Confinement

October 12, 2018

It has been more than a month since the wife of a Sufi Gonabadi Dervish held in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) has heard from her husband after he ...

Kurdish Mechanic Sentenced to Death in Iran Despite Judge’s Acknowledgement of His Innocence

Kurdish Mechanic Sentenced to Death in Iran Despite Judge’s Acknowledgement of His Innocence

October 11, 2018

Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against a 25-year-old Kurdish auto mechanic on false charges, the mechanic’s lawyer told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Hedayat Abdollahpour was arrested in ...

Listen to Iranian Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi Sing a Love Song For Her Children

Listen to Iranian Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi Sing a Love Song For Her Children

October 9, 2018

Narges Mohammad hasn't seen her children since she was imprisoned in Iran for her human rights activism more than three years ago. In this video she sings a love song for them during a brief furlough at her now empty home. "During this time, ...

“Oppression Stops Life:” Narges Mohammadi Recounts Returning to An Empty Home

“Oppression Stops Life:” Narges Mohammadi Recounts Returning to An Empty Home

October 9, 2018

For the first time in more than three years, Iranian political prisoner Narges Mohammadi was allowed to go on a three-day furlough on September 26, ...

Three People Sentenced to Death in Iran as 32 Others Issued Harsh Sentences For Alleged Currency Hoarding

Three People Sentenced to Death in Iran as 32 Others Issued Harsh Sentences For Alleged Currency Hoarding

October 9, 2018

Unnamed “special courts for economic crimes” in Iran have sentenced three people to death and condemned 32 others to long prison sentences for allegedly manipulating Iran’s gold and currency markets, Judiciary ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Husband Charged With National Security Crimes For Anti-Compulsory Hijab Activism

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Husband Charged With National Security Crimes For Anti-Compulsory Hijab Activism

October 9, 2018

Sotoudeh’s Sister Threatened With Arrest Imprisoned Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, has been charged with national security crimes for peacefully supporting his wife and ...

These Four Educators Were Behind Bars in Iran on World Teachers’ Day 2018

These Four Educators Were Behind Bars in Iran on World Teachers’ Day 2018

October 8, 2018

Four teachers are currently behind bars in Iranian prisons for engaging in peaceful trade union activities, according to Rassoul Bodaghi, a formerly imprisoned labor activist and senior member of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade ...

Man Serving Seven Years in an Iranian Prison For His Facebook Posts Slapped With An Additional Three

Man Serving Seven Years in an Iranian Prison For His Facebook Posts Slapped With An Additional Three

October 4, 2018

Prisoner of conscience Soheil Arabi has been sentenced to three more years behind bars—increasing his total term to 10 years—for engaging in peaceful activism inside ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Lawyers Sue Judge Moghiseh For Unlawful Sentencing

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Lawyers Sue Judge Moghiseh For Unlawful Sentencing

October 4, 2018

Judge Moghiseh Notorious in Iran for Issuing Politically Motivated Sentences Payam Derafshan and Mohammad Moghimi, the lawyers representing detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, have sued Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, the head of Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, accusing him of unlawful sentencing and displaying a lack of ...

Iran Should Free Environmentalists Detained Without Evidence

Iran Should Free Environmentalists Detained Without Evidence

October 3, 2018

Since January 2018, at least eight environmentalists have been detained in Iran even though the country's own Intelligence Ministry has admitted there's no evidence to support the politically motivated charges the detainees are facing. They include Sam Rajabi, Niloufar Bayani, Morad Tahbaz (also holds American citizenship), Amir Hossein Khaleghi, ...

Young Woman Put to Death in Iran for Crime Committed as Juvenile

Young Woman Put to Death in Iran for Crime Committed as Juvenile

October 2, 2018

Zeinab Sekaanvand is Fifth Known Juvenile Offender Executed in Past Year October 2, 2018 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) condemns the execution of Zeinab Sekaanvand Lankarani who was charged with ...

New UN Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman Requests Entry to Iran

New UN Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman Requests Entry to Iran

October 1, 2018

UN SRs on Human Rights Banned From Visiting Since 2005 The new special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, has requested that Iran ...

Civil Rights Activist Farhad Meysami Barricades Himself in Evin Prison Clinic

Civil Rights Activist Farhad Meysami Barricades Himself in Evin Prison Clinic

October 1, 2018

Meysami Intensifies Hunger Strike and Calls For Release of Reza Khandan Imprisoned civil rights activist Farhad Meysami has resisted medical treatment in Evin Prison in Iran to bring attention to his ...

Rouhani Falsely Claims Iran’s Imprisoned Dual Nationals Have Been Treated Fairly

Rouhani Falsely Claims Iran’s Imprisoned Dual Nationals Have Been Treated Fairly

September 28, 2018

Two months after a judge in Iran told imprisoned Iranian British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe that her freedom depends on the ...

Families of Kurdish Prisoners Held Incommunicado Fear Imminent Execution

Families of Kurdish Prisoners Held Incommunicado Fear Imminent Execution

September 28, 2018

Two Kurdish men, Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostad-Ghader, have been held incommunicado inside Iran’s Intelligence Ministry detention center in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, since they were arrested on August 3, 2018, the Center for Human ...

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