UPDATE (22 October 2008) Mohammad Hasan Falahiezadeh ended his hunger strike after 15 days on 19 October 2008 after the Court granted him access to a lawyer, Mr. Abdolfattah Soltani. A representative for Mr. Soltani signed the contract on his behalf. ...
Fatemeh Goftari, mother of Yaser Goli, was arrested on 14 January 2008 while on her way to pick up her son’s possessions. She is serving a three-month prison sentence in the Central Prison of Sanandaj. ...
Behrouz Karimizadeh, arrested on November 3, 2008, is a student activist. He is being held in Evin prison. Karimizadeh and more than 60 other students were arrested during a nationwide sweep between November 2007 and January 2008. ...
Adnan Hassanpour (27), arrested on January 25, 2007, is a Kurdish journalist facing a death sentence following an unfair trial. ...
Ali Kantouri, arrested on November 3, 2008, is a student activist. He is held in Evin prison. Kantouri and more than 60 other students were arrested during a nationwide sweep between November 2007 and January 2008. ...
Peyman Piran, arrested in November 2007, is a political dissident and student activist. He is held in Evin prison and has reportedly been subjected to ill-treatment to make false confessions. ...
Emad Baghi (45), a prominent human rights defender, is serving a one- year sentence for articles he wrote a decade before, and for which he already spent three years in prison on the same charges. He is the founder of the Center for Defense of ...
Hadi Hamidi Shafigh (23) is an architecture student at Orumieh’s Azad University. Arrested on December 11, 2007, he is serving a 17- month prison term for “participating in an illegal gathering” and possession of material deemed “insulting to the Supreme Leader.” ...
Ehsan Mansouri, political secretary of the Islamic Association at Amir Kabir University, was arrested after security agents raided his parent’s house on May 29, 2007. Security forces arrested Mansouri, Ahmad Ghasaban, and Majid Tavakoli along with five other students following a week of unrest ...
Abbas Khorsandi, a political activist held in Evin Prison, is sentenced to eight years in prison solely for his political beliefs and internet writings. ...
(April 7, 2008) Mahmoud Salehi completed his one-year prison sentence on March 23, 2008. However, local judiciary officials refused to release him and instead brought new charges against him relating to letters he published while in prison months ago. According to his lawyer, Mohammad Sharif, ...
Kambiz Hosseini (28) is a follower of Ayatollah Boroujerdi’s who was first arrested in October 2006 and sentenced to 18 months in prison. He is currently being held in Evin Prison. ...
Ali Arbabi (38) is a follower of Ayatollah Boroujerdi’s who was first arrested in October 2006. He was sentenced to 2 years in prison and is being held in Evin Prison. ...
Mehrdad Soori (36) is an electrical technician and follower of Ayatollah Boroujerdi’s who was first arrested in October 2006. He was sentenced to 2 years in prison. He is currently being held in Evin Prison. ...
Majid Alsati (35) has a Master’s degree in development and is a follower of Ayatollah Boroujerdi’s. He was first arrested in October 2006 and is serving a 4-year imprisonment in exile sentence in Zanjan. ...
Habib Ghovati (30), has a Master’s degree in accounting. He is a follower of Ayatollah Boroujerdi’s who was first arrested in October 2006. He is married and currently serving a 4-year imprisonment in exile sentence in Hamadan. ...
Alireza Montazer (37) is married with one child and is serving a 4-year imprisonment in exile sentence in Kermanshah. He is a follower of Ayatollah Boroujerdi’s who was first arrested in October 2006. ...
Massoud Samavatyan (47) has a Master’s degree in literature. He is a follower of Ayatollah Boroujerdi’s who was first arrested in October 2006. He has two children and is serving a 5-year imprisonment in exile sentence in Khoramabad. ...
Reza Daghestani (27), detained on February 21, 2008, is an Azerbaijani activist. Intelligence agents raided his house and confiscated his books and personal computer. He is at risk of being tortured. ...
Morteza Khedmatloo, arrested on January 14, 2008, is a student activist. He is held in Evin prison. Khedmatloo and more than 60 other students were arrested during a nationwide sweep between November 2007 and January 2008. ...
Behzad Bagheri, arrested on December 14, 2007, is a student activist. Intelligence agents arrested Bagheri and more than 60 other students during a nationwide sweep last November to January. ...
Soroosh Dashtestani, arrested on January 14, 2008, is a student activist. He is held in Evin prison. Dashtestani and more than 60 other students were arrested during a nationwide sweep between November 2007 and January 2008. ...
Ejlal Ghavami, serving a three year sentence, is a journalist in the Western province of Kurdistan. He was arrested on July 9, 2007. Ghavami is a member of the editorial board of Payam Mardom (People’s Message). On June 9, 2007, Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court ...
Alireza Matinpour, brother of the Azerbaijani journalist, Saeed Matinpour, was detained on August 28, 2008. He was held for more than six months. The authorities released him on bail in amount of one billion Rials ($110,000). ...
Leila Heidari, a political activist, was detained on August 28, 2007, after she went to Zanjan prison to visit her detained husband, Behrouz Safari. She was released in early March 2008 after posting bail in amount of 800 million Rials ($88,000). ...
