In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: protesters clash with security forces in the Azerbaijan region of Iran; jailed student activist Ashkan Zahabian embarks on a hunger strike to protest his conditions in prison; four literary and cultural figures are released on bail from prisons in ...
To protest his conditions inside Babol’s Matikola Prison, imprisoned student activist Ashkan Zahabian embarked on a hunger strike on 31 August. Zahabian’s father, Hassan Zahabian, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that prison staff moved his son to solitary confinement after he ...
A source close to the case of student activist Ashkan Zahabian told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the prisoner of conscience recently met with his parents while under security supervision. Due to the presence of security forces, Zahabian did not discuss ...
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Roghieh Jafarian, mother of imprisoned student activist Ashkan Zahabian, spoke about her son who has been in detention for the past 16 days inside Sari’s Intelligence Office. Ashkan Zahabian, a member of Tahkim-e ...
A friend and other sources close to Ashkan Zahabian, a banned student and human rights activist who was arrested after appearing at the Intelligence Office of Sari on 3 May 2011, explained to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran the extent to which ...
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: Nasrin Sotoudeh is charged with not wearing a hejad for not wearing a headscarf in a 2008 YouTube video and Mohammad Javad Larijani comments on her charges; Christian pastors Youcef Nadarkhani and Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani are being charged with apostasy; ...
An informed source in Babol told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that police and security forces attempted to arrest student activist Ashkan Zahabian at his home in Mazandaran on Tuesday without a warrant. The source told the Campaign that the forces attempting ...
