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Tag : dual nationals in Iran

February 8, 2022

Another Foreign Citizen Nabbed by Iran Now Faces Possible Execution

Political Dissident Jamshid Sharmahd Is Unable to Defend Himself in Iranian Judicial System World Must Speak Out against Iran’s Abductions and Attacks on Dissidents Abroad February 8, 2022 – An Iranian-born German citizen, U.S. resident and political dissident, ...

January 25, 2022

Hostage Benjamin Briere’s “Price” Raised as Judge Imposes Eight-Year Prison Term

Iran “Toying” with Foreign and Dual Nationals Amid Nuclear Talks to Extract Concessions Lawyer: Briere's Arbitrarily Increased Sentence is “Unlawful” January 25, 2022 – The manner in which an Iranian judge sentenced French national Benjamin Briere to ...

January 22, 2022

New Interrogations at Iran’s Airports, Jailing of Dual Citizens Challenge Officials’ Calls for Expatriates to Return

Reports of security agents at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport singling out travelers returning from European destinations to collect “financial and personal” information, and the ongoing unjust imprisonment of dual nationals in the country, challenge ...

December 23, 2020

Abducted German-Iranian Denied Choice of Attorney, Whereabouts Still Unknown

Jamshid Sharmahd Assigned Lawyer Who “Defended” Executed Dissident Ruhollah Zam  The exact whereabouts of Jamshid Sharmahd, the German-Iranian dissident who was arrested and apparently abducted by Iranian intelligence agents in July 2020, is still unknown, according ...

July 28, 2020

Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert Moved to Notoriously Inhumane Prison in Iran as “Punishment”

Scholar Held at Gharchak Prison Alongside Violent Criminals July 28, 2020—The Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who has been imprisoned in Iran on spurious charges since October 2018, has been moved to the notoriously harsh Gharchak Prison, south ...

May 18, 2020

French Academic Fariba Adelkhah Sentenced to Six Years Imprisonment in Iran

Nearly one year after she was detained in Tehran, Iranian-born French anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah was sentenced to a total of six years in prison under "national security" charges that Iranian prosecutors have used to jail ...

March 6, 2019

Iranian Belgian Academic Arrested in Iran on Unspecified “Security Charges”

A dual national academic who has taught at the University of Tehran and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium was arrested on “security charges,” a senior Iranian official ...

December 20, 2018

Dual National Imprisoned in Iran, Kamran Ghaderi, Struggling to Access Medical Treatment for Untreated Tumor

“He’s Just a Businessman Who Has Done Nothing Wrong” Kamran Ghaderi, an Iranian-Austrian dual national imprisoned in Iran since  January 2016, is the latest in a long line of prisoners who ...

December 3, 2018

IRGC-Affiliated Media Report Dual National Among Group of Researchers Arrested in Iran

An unknown number of university academics, including a dual national, who allegedly researched state population policies have been arrested in Iran, according to state media outlets. The main reports about the arrests, ...

September 28, 2018

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

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

August 30, 2018

Zaghari-Ratcliffe Told Furlough Would be Extended Before Being Sent Back to Prison

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tries to console her four-year-old daughter, Gabriella, before returning to ...

July 25, 2018

Judge Tells Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe That She’ll Remain Imprisoned Until UK Pays Debt to Iran

A judge in Tehran has admitted that Iranian British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will not be released from prison until Iran receives payment for an old debt owed by Britain. “Judge Abbasi has confirmed what we have been suspecting ...

May 24, 2018

Who Are the Dual and Foreign Nationals Imprisoned in Iran? (Updated)

At least 21 (15 dual nationals, five foreign nationals and one foreign permanent resident) were known to be held in Iran (imprisoned, under house arrest, or prohibited from leaving the country) as of July 2022 ...

May 16, 2018

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Case Re-Opened Ahead of UK Foreign Secretary’s Meeting With Iranian Officials

The Mother of a Toddler Has Been Serving a Five-Year Prison Sentence Since 2016 Already serving a five-year prison sentence on trumped-up espionage charges in Tehran’s Evin Prison, Iranian British dual national ...

May 3, 2018

Grim Photo of Swedish Resident Imprisoned in Iran Surfaces Amid Heightened Concerns For His Life

A photo of imprisoned Swedish resident and scientist Ahmadreza Djalali in which he appears thin and haggard has raised concerns for the health and medical condition of the Iranian-born ...

April 25, 2018

Iran Detains Another Iranian British Citizen, Computer Scientist and Antiwar Activist Abbas Edalat

Abbas Edalat (Imperial College of London) April 25, 2018—Abbas Edalat, an Iranian British academic and antiwar activist based in London, has been detained in Iran since ...

April 12, 2018

Swedish Resident Who Tried to March Through Iran With Monarchist Flag Facing National Security Charges

On March 21, 2017, Kamran Ghaderi, an Iranian-born resident of Sweden, began walking from Stockholm toward Iran carrying the country’s pre-revolution national flag. In his Twitter bio he wrote that ...

February 24, 2018

Iranian MP Condemns State TV’s Unsubstantiated Accusations Against Iranian-Canadian Who Died in Prison

A member of Iran’s Parliament has sharply condemned the country’s state-funded radio and TV broadcaster for airing a film that accused a prominent academic who died under suspicious circumstances in ...

February 13, 2018

MP: “More Details Necessary” To Determine Cause of Iranian-Canadian’s Death in Custody

Tehran Prosecutor Claims Autopsy Conducted But Still No Medical Examiner’s Report Iran’s deputy parliamentary speaker has stated that, based on a video produced by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), it’s not clear whether Iranian-Canadian ...

February 9, 2018

Swedish Resident Facing Death in Iran Details How He Was Forced to Make False Statements   

The wife of a Swedish resident imprisoned in Tehran has revealed the way her husband, Ahmadreza Djalali, was coerced into making potentially incriminating statements before he was ...

February 8, 2018

UK Resident Detained in Iran by IRGC For More Than a Year Without Charge or Access to Counsel

Mohammad Reza Hashemi-Nabi, a permanent resident of the UK, has been held in solitary confinement in Iran’s Evin Prison for more than a year without access to a lawyer, his mother informed the Center for ...

February 6, 2018

Imprisoned Iranian-American Art Dealer Accuses IRGC of Judicial Interference

Karan Vafadari: “I don’t think we will be justly treated unless there ...

February 3, 2018

Hardline Judge Keeps Iranian-American and Wife in Jail by Imposing $27 Million Bail

Family Meets Bail for Wife, but Judge Still Refuses to Release Her The judge presiding over the case of imprisoned Iranian-American gallery owners Karan Vafadari and his wife Afarin Neyssari has deliberately imposed an extraordinarily ...

December 28, 2017

Ahmadreza Djalali’s Wife: My Husband Was “Framed” For Refusing to Spy for Iran

The wife of an Iranian-born Swedish resident sentenced to death in Iran on espionage charges has denied new allegations that her husband spied for the Israeli secret service, Mossad. “My husband was asked ...

December 19, 2017

Tehran Prosecutor’s Office Ignores Imprisoned Iranian-Austrian’s Request for Back Operation

The Tehran prosecutor's office has ignored a request by imprisoned Iranian-Austrian dual national Kamran Ghaderi for an urgent back operation, his wife told the Center for ...

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