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Tag : Arash Keykhosravi

June 22, 2022

In Cahoots with the State, Iranian Court Sentences Lawyers, Activists Trying to Sue Officials to Prison

Supreme Leader’s COVID Vaccine Ban Resulted in Thousands of Unnecessary Deaths June 22, 2022 – For trying to sue Iranian leaders for their grossly negligent response to the COVID-19 pandemic, three lawyers and two civil ...

March 10, 2022

Unprecedented Lawsuit Filed Against Supreme Leader, Top Iranian Officials

Complaint Alleges Gross Negligence in Government’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic  Lawyers Who Filed the Complaint are Facing Prison Time Two lawyers in Iran, Arash Keykhosravi and Mohammad Reza Faghihi, filed an official complaint against Supreme Leader ...

March 3, 2022

Joint Statement: Free Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer Mohammad Najafi in Iran

Lawyer Unlawfully Imprisoned for His Defense of Basic Civil and Political Liberties March 3, 2022 – The lawyer Mohammad Najafi, who has been unlawfully and unjustly imprisoned in Iran since 2018 on multiple convictions for his defense ...

December 9, 2021

Joint Statement: Free Arbitrarily Detained Right to Health Defenders in Iran

The following joint statement, signed by 23 international human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, calls on Iranian judicial authorities to release the activist Mehdi Mahmoudian and defense attorneys Arash Keykhosravi and Mostafa Nili. These peaceful ...

October 12, 2021

Human Rights Lawyers, Activist to Be Illegally Tried as Their Legal Team is Denied Case Files

Group was Arrested Ahead of Filing Lawsuit Against State Officials for Disastrous Pandemic Response Legal Teams of Defendants Denied Access to Case Files, Homes Raided Detainees Were Pressured to Sign Pledges Promising to Withdraw Any Lawsuits October ...

September 28, 2021

Iran’s New Government Moves to Silence Dissent by Muzzling Leading Activists

September 28, 2021 – The Iranian security establishment’s attempt to imprison four prominent human rights defenders, only a few months after the inauguration of the country’s new presidential administration, signals the beginning of a new and intensified ...

August 26, 2021

Detained Rights Lawyers’ Homes Raided Without Warrant

Agents Confiscate Personal Security Cameras to Hide Evidence of Unlawful Raid State security agents carried out unlawful search operations in the homes of two detained human rights lawyers, Arash Keykhosravi and Mohammad Reza Faghihi, in Tehran ...

June 23, 2020

No Lawyers, No Justice: Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran for Defending Human Rights

At Least Nine Defense Attorneys Sentenced to Prison Since 2018 June 23, 2020 – Two years after the prominent human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested and imprisoned in Tehran, the Iranian judiciary’s continuing prosecution of independent ...

June 23, 2020

List of Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran for Defending Human Rights (Updated)

At least five defense lawyers are currently imprisoned in Iran for supporting human rights ...

April 2, 2020

Rights Attorneys Call for Release of All Eligible Prisoners: “Tomorrow Will be Too Late”

As inmates in Iran continue to be killed or injured in "prison disturbances" amid the country's devastating COVID-19 outbreak, two defense attorneys in Tehran have joined the growing chorus of domestic and ...

October 30, 2018

Iran Must Stop Imprisoning Lawyers for Defending Their Clients

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 for “disturbing ...

September 5, 2018

Iran’s Assault on Legal Profession Intensifies with Three More Attorneys Arrested

Seven Lawyers Now Behind Bars with More Summoned or Banned from Work *On September 6, after publication of this article, the lawyers Payam Derafshan and Farrokh Firouzan were released on bail of 110 million tomans ($26,100 ...

August 25, 2018

Journalist Recounts “Inhumane” Living Conditions at Tehran Penitentiary

An Iranian journalist who was detained at Iran’s Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary (GTCP) has written about the jail’s “inhumane” conditions, stating in a Facebook post ...

August 24, 2018

Fourth Human Rights Lawyer Slapped With National Security Charges in Iran

Arash Keykhosravi, a lawyer representing the family of an Iranian Canadian man who recently died under suspicious circumstances in state custody, has been slapped with national security charges, making him the fourth defense attorney detained under this pretense in Iran in ...

August 14, 2018

Judiciary’s Intensifying Crackdown on Defense Attorneys in Iran Must End

Seven Human Rights Lawyers Detained or Blocked from Working in Iran in Less Than a Year August 14, 2018—An intensifying state crackdown on human rights defenders in Iran, in which the authorities have denied attorneys the ability to represent their ...

June 27, 2018

Widow Hospitalized After IRGC Storms Home of Iranian Canadian Who Died in Iranian State Custody

Tehran Prosecutor Ordered Raid to Gather Footage For a “Film” The widow of an Iranian Canadian environmentalist who recently died in state custody in Iran has been hospitalized in Tehran after being interrogated for hours by agents who ...

April 27, 2018

Lawyer Who Exposed Cover Up of Client’s Death in Custody Could Be Imprisoned For Years in Iran

Human rights attorney Mohammad Najafi is facing charges from three different courts and years of imprisonment in Iran for publicly arguing that local police concealed the true cause of death ...

March 27, 2018

Attorney Blocked From Taking on Human Rights Cases in Iran Calls For Revision of “Flawed” Law

A lawyer representing the family of an Iranian Canadian academic who recently died in an Iranian prison has joined the growing list of attorneys in Iran who have criticized ...

February 16, 2018

Iranian Authorities Arrest Lawyer Who Exposed Death of Protester in Police Custody

Civil Rights Activists Also Detained February 16, 2018 – Attorney Mohammad Najafi has been held in detention in the Iranian city of Arak since January 15, and is facing eight charges for exposing the death of a ...

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    Jailed Iranian Director Jafar Panahi Hunger Strikes Against "Hostage-Taking"
    February 2, 2023
  • Children’s Rights Advocates, Mainly Women, Targeted in Crackdown on Anti-State Protests in Iran
    Children’s Rights Advocates, Mainly Women, Targeted in Crackdown on Anti-State Protests in Iran
    February 1, 2023
  • Iran: Families of Detained and Killed Protesters Beaten, Threatened to Stay Silent
    Iran: Families of Detained and Killed Protesters Beaten, Threatened to Stay Silent
    January 25, 2023
  • Suspicious Deaths of Released Protesters in Iran Should be Investigated by UN
    Suspicious Deaths of Released Protesters in Iran Should be Investigated by UN
    January 19, 2023
  • Governments Worldwide Should Recall Ambassadors from Iran
    Governments Worldwide Should Recall Ambassadors from Iran
    January 12, 2023
  • Iran Protests: At Least 44 Defense Attorneys Arrested Since September
    Iran Protests: At Least 44 Defense Attorneys Arrested Since September
    January 10, 2023
  • Two More Men Executed in Iran in Connection with Protests, Others at Imminent Risk
    Two More Men Executed in Iran in Connection with Protests, Others at Imminent Risk
    January 7, 2023
  • Third Anniversary of Shooting Down of Ukrainian Passenger Plane, Still No Justice
    Third Anniversary of Shooting Down of Ukrainian Passenger Plane, Still No Justice
    January 6, 2023
  • What Can I Do to Support the Protesters and Human Rights in Iran?
    What Can I Do to Support the Protesters and Human Rights in Iran?
    January 5, 2023
  • Iranian Athletes Killed, Tortured, Sentenced to Death for Supporting Protests (Updated)
    Iranian Athletes Killed, Tortured, Sentenced to Death for Supporting Protests (Updated)
    January 4, 2023
  • Recommendations: Congress Can Play a Vital Role in Supporting the Protesters in Iran
    Recommendations: Congress Can Play a Vital Role in Supporting the Protesters in Iran
    December 21, 2022
  • Recommendations for the U.S. Congress on Iran
    Recommendations for the U.S. Congress on Iran
    December 21, 2022
  • Iran: Death Sentences and Imprisonment Used to Crush Dissent in Film and Theatre Industries
    Iran: Death Sentences and Imprisonment Used to Crush Dissent in Film and Theatre Industries
    December 20, 2022
  • Iran’s Courts Using Death Penalty Charges to Crush Protests
    Iran’s Courts Using Death Penalty Charges to Crush Protests
    December 15, 2022
  • Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women
    Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women
    December 14, 2022
  • Iran Protests: Children Killed and Tortured to Crush Dissent
    Iran Protests: Children Killed and Tortured to Crush Dissent
    December 13, 2022
  • Lynching in Iran: Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, Publicly Hanged in State-Sponsored Murder
    Lynching in Iran: Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, Publicly Hanged in State-Sponsored Murder
    December 12, 2022
  • Executions in Iran: World Must Respond with Strong Action Against State Killings of Protesters
    Executions in Iran: World Must Respond with Strong Action Against State Killings of Protesters
    December 8, 2022
  • Iran Protests: Detained University Students Subjected to Sexual Assault, Disappearances
    Iran Protests: Detained University Students Subjected to Sexual Assault, Disappearances
    December 6, 2022
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