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Tag : ebrahim yazdi

January 10, 2012

Former Foreign Minister Ebrahim Yazdi Sentenced to Eight Years In Prison

Following an eight-year prison sentence for political activist and head of the Iran Freedom Movement Ebrahim Yazdi, his son-in-law Mehdi Nourbakhsh called the ruling cruel in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

November 7, 2011

Ebrahim Yazdi Offers No Defense to Protest Lack of Jurisdiction in Revolutionary Court

Mehdi Nourbakhsh, son-in-law of Ebrahim Yazdi, the former Secretary General of the Iran Freedom Movement, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Ebrahim Yazdi did not offer any defense at his 2 November trial, choosing to maintain silent. “He had a court ...

March 23, 2011

Supreme Leader is Accountable for Crimes Taking Place, Says Abdolali Bazargan

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Abdolali Bazargan, son of Mehdi Bazargan, a founder of the Iran Freedom Movement and the first Prime Minister of Iran during the transitional government formed after the 1979 revolution, talked about the invalid ...

March 14, 2011

Judge Says Yazdi is Healthy Despite Illness and Postpones Trial for Third Time

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, Ebrahim Yazdi’s lawyer, said that the third session of Yazdi’s trial did not convene on 12 March, due to incomplete investigations. “The Judge said that he has forwarded the case ...

March 11, 2011

“Supreme Leader Directly Responsible for Ebrahim Yazdi’s Arrest and Detention,” Says Son-In-Law

Judicial officials announced recently that the trial for Ebrahim Yazdi, head of the Freedom Movement of Iran, will be held on 13 March. His son-in-law, Mehdi Nourbakhsh, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, directly interfered in ...

January 27, 2011

Prominent Lawyer Faces New Charges While Clients Ail in Prison

Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, a prominent lawyer who was arrested after the 2009 presidential election on charges of “firearms and drug possession” in his legal offices and released later on bail, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he has been informed of ...

January 21, 2011

Yazdi Trial Delayed Further; Doctor Says He Won’t Last In Prison

As Ebrahim Yazdi’s trial session was delayed for a second time, his son-in-law, Dr. Mehdi Nourbakhsh, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that keeping Yazdi in a state of limbo is a psychological game authorities are playing with the veteran political prisoner ...

December 16, 2010

Ebrahim Yazdi’s Deteriorating Health in Evin Prison

A reliable source recently spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran regarding the case of Ebrahim Yazdi. In the interview, the source alleged that security officers have demanded that in return for Yazdi’s release from prison, he promise not to have meetings ...

December 3, 2010

Weekly Rights Podcast 19

In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: Shahla Jahed was executed after spending eight years in Evin prison on charges of stabbing the wife of soccer star Nasser Mohammadkhani; Ebrahim Yazdi, an eighty year old activist, is still in prison as the Campaign calls for his ...

November 26, 2010

Release Ailing, 80-year-old Former Foreign Minister

(26 November 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called for the immediate release for medical treatment of Ebrahim Yazdi, who has been in detention since 1 October, but has yet to be informed of the charges against him. The Islamic Republic’s first ...

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