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Unfair Trials

“Blood Money” Frees Imprisoned Ranger Who Killed Poacher In Self-Defense

“Blood Money” Frees Imprisoned Ranger Who Killed Poacher In Self-Defense

March 24, 2016

Gholam-Hossein Khaledi, an Iranian park ranger sentenced to death for killing a poacher in 2010, was released on March 18, 2016 after paying 12 billion rials (about $400,000 USD) diyah (“blood money”) to the victim’s ...

Prominent Iranian Journalist Remains Hospitalized After Delayed Health Care

Prominent Iranian Journalist Remains Hospitalized After Delayed Health Care

March 23, 2016

Severe health problems are keeping prisoner of conscience Issa Saharkhiz, a prominent reformist journalist, under observation in the hospital he was transferred to from Evin Prison on March 9, ...

Iranian Political Activist Exiled Following Four Years of Imprisonment

Iranian Political Activist Exiled Following Four Years of Imprisonment

March 18, 2016

Saeed Madani, a political activist and academic, was exiled to the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on March 16, 2016 after serving four years of his eight-year prison sentence at Evin Prison, according to the ...

In Bid to Save Ailing Son, Political Prisoner’s Father Threatens Hunger Strike

In Bid to Save Ailing Son, Political Prisoner’s Father Threatens Hunger Strike

March 18, 2016

The father of ailing political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi Maleki will launch a hunger strike in front of the Tehran prosecutor’s office unless steps are taken to release his son. “Hossein has been in prison ...

Cartoon 143: Norooz

Cartoon 143: Norooz

March 11, 2016

The Spring Equinox marks Norooz, the start of the Persian New Year. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran takes this opportunity to wish everyone around the world a happy and joyous Spring, and a ...

Harsh Sentences of Human Rights Activist and Wife Confirmed by Iran Appeals Court

Harsh Sentences of Human Rights Activist and Wife Confirmed by Iran Appeals Court

March 7, 2016

An Appeals Court in Iran has upheld the 15-year prison sentence of the student activist Arash Sadeghi for “collusion against national security,” “propaganda against the state,” “spreading lies in cyberspace” and “insulting the Founder ...

Former Political Prisoner Gets One-Year Prison Sentence On Recycled Charges

Former Political Prisoner Gets One-Year Prison Sentence On Recycled Charges

March 7, 2016

Navid Kamran, a former political prisoner, has been sentenced to one year in prison without any new evidence supporting the charge against him of “propaganda against the state,” he told the International Campaign for ...

Pro-Rouhani Political Prisoner Urged Iranians to Vote in 2016 Elections

Pro-Rouhani Political Prisoner Urged Iranians to Vote in 2016 Elections

March 3, 2016

“Now President Rouhani should carry out his promise of two years ago to free political prisoners.” The mother of a young man believed to be the first political prisoner of the government of President Hassan ...

Iranian Music Distributors Sentenced to Three Years in Prison

Iranian Music Distributors Sentenced to Three Years in Prison

March 1, 2016

Three music distributors have each been sentenced to three years in prison and fined 200 million rials (approximately $6,600 USD) for “insulting the sacred” and “propaganda against the state” ...

Iran Vote: Political Freedoms Must Be Rouhani’s Top Priority

Iran Vote: Political Freedoms Must Be Rouhani’s Top Priority

March 1, 2016

Electorate Wants Human Rights and Rouhani Must Deliver March 1, 2016—In the elections for Parliament and the Assembly of Experts held across Iran on February 26, the Iranian electorate handed the country’s supreme ...

Prominent Reformist Journalist Protests Solitary Confinement with Third Hunger Strike

Prominent Reformist Journalist Protests Solitary Confinement with Third Hunger Strike

February 24, 2016

The imprisoned political journalist Issa Saharkhiz has resumed his hunger strike after being placed in solitary confinement on February 21, 2016 despite having lost an alarming amount of weight. ...

Father of Missing Student Sentenced to Jail and Lashes for Pursuing Son’s Case

Father of Missing Student Sentenced to Jail and Lashes for Pursuing Son’s Case

February 23, 2016

The 70-year-old father of a student who has not been heard from for 17 years since his arrest has been sentenced to 91 days in prison and 74 lashes for “disturbing public order” by ...

Imprisoned Iranian-American Siamak Namazi Held Incommunicado without Access to Lawyer

Imprisoned Iranian-American Siamak Namazi Held Incommunicado without Access to Lawyer

February 23, 2016

Namazi Reportedly on Hunger Strike at Evin Now Siamak Namazi, the Iranian-American businessman who was arrested in October while visiting family in Tehran, is being held incommunicado in Evin Prison and denied access ...

Iranian Kurdish Filmmaker Sentenced to 223 Lashes and One Year in Prison

Iranian Kurdish Filmmaker Sentenced to 223 Lashes and One Year in Prison

February 22, 2016

Keyvan Karimi, an Iranian Kurdish documentary filmmaker, has been sentenced to 223 lashes and one year in prison for “insulting the sacred.” Karimi’s initial six-year prison sentence ...

Technology Website Staffers Rushed to Prison Before Appeals Court Verdict

Technology Website Staffers Rushed to Prison Before Appeals Court Verdict

February 18, 2016

Four convicted staff members of a leading Iranian technology website who were free on bail while awaiting an Appeals Court verdict on their cases were taken to a prison in Kerman Province on February ...

Imprisoned Facebook Activist Begins Wet Hunger Strike

Imprisoned Facebook Activist Begins Wet Hunger Strike

February 16, 2016

An Iranian activist imprisoned for his social media activity has gone on a wet hunger strike to protest the Judiciary’s rejection of his request for conditional release. Amir Golestani, 35, was ...

Iranian Judicial Officials Suggest Kurdish Prisoner Will Get Temporary Leave if She Agrees to Televised “Confession”

Iranian Judicial Officials Suggest Kurdish Prisoner Will Get Temporary Leave if She Agrees to Televised “Confession”

February 9, 2016

Iran’s judicial authorities have hinted that Kurdish prisoner of conscience Zeinab Jalalian could go on furlough if she agreed to a televised confession, according to her lawyer, Mohammad Sharif. ...

Cartoon 137: “Remember the Spent Candle! Remember!”

Cartoon 137: “Remember the Spent Candle! Remember!”

February 5, 2016

“Tell our friends for us, remember the spent candle! Remember!" Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyestani's take on Zahra Rahnavard's message to her family, after five ...

Two Dozen Iranian Baha’is Sentenced to Six to Eleven Years for Practicing Their Faith

Two Dozen Iranian Baha’is Sentenced to Six to Eleven Years for Practicing Their Faith

February 2, 2016

Courtesy of BBC Persian Twenty-four Baha’is from northeastern Iran have been handed down sentences that range from six to eleven years “simply for being Baha’is,” ...

Dispute between Judicial Officials on the Release of Kurdish Human Rights Activist Keeps Him in Prison

Dispute between Judicial Officials on the Release of Kurdish Human Rights Activist Keeps Him in Prison

February 2, 2016

The prominent Kurdish human rights activist, Mohammad Sediq Kaboudvand, has been recommended for conditional release by the chief warden of the notorious Evin Prison, but the prosecutor in his ...

Two Reformist Journalists Charged, after Three Months in Detention

Two Reformist Journalists Charged, after Three Months in Detention

February 2, 2016

Three months after their arrests, journalists Issa Saharkhiz and Ehsan Mazandarani have been formally charged with “acting against national security” and “propaganda against ...

Call for Prime Minister Trudeau to Secure Release of Imprisoned Iranian-Canadian

Call for Prime Minister Trudeau to Secure Release of Imprisoned Iranian-Canadian

February 1, 2016

February 1, 2016— Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should extend all efforts to obtain the release of Saeed Malekpour, a Canadian resident and web develop imprisoned in Iran since 2008 on false charges, three prominent human ...

Student of Imprisoned Iranian Spiritual Leader Facing Trial for Supporting Him

Student of Imprisoned Iranian Spiritual Leader Facing Trial for Supporting Him

January 29, 2016

The student of a spiritual leader in Iran who has been imprisoned for his alternative beliefs, has been summoned to court for attending a gathering in support of his freedom. The trial of Sara Saei, a ...

Family of Imprisoned Iranian Producer: Canada Must Do More

Family of Imprisoned Iranian Producer: Canada Must Do More

January 28, 2016

The family of prisoner of conscience Mostafa Azizi is calling on Canada to exert more pressure on Iran to release him following the prisoner swap that led to the freedom of four Iranian-Americans ...

Iranian Artists Call for Immediate Release of Music Distributors

Iranian Artists Call for Immediate Release of Music Distributors

January 28, 2016

A coalition of Iranian artists have called for the immediate release of three music producers sentenced to six years in prison for promoting underground music in Iran. “This kind of sentencing by the Judiciary is more ...

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