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Tag : environmentalist

November 20, 2019

Six Conservationists Sentenced to Long Prison Terms in Iran After Two Years Behind Bars

  Preliminary Sentences Range Between 6 and 10 Years, Two Still Awaiting Ruling No Evidence of Wrongdoing Ever Found *Update: Two conservationists were sentenced on November 23: Sam Rajabi was sentenced to six years in prison and Abdolreza Koohpayeh to ...

March 13, 2019

Widow of Dual National Who Died in Iranian Custody Sues Judiciary for Banning Her from Travel

The widow of an Iranian Canadian academic who died under suspicious circumstances in Tehran’s Evin Prison has sued a judicial official for extending a travel ban imposed on her a year ago, the Center for ...

March 4, 2019

US-Based Environmentalist Detained in Iran’s Kurdistan Province

Environmentalist Afshin Sheikholeslami Vatani, a US permanent resident, was arrested on February 17, 2019, at his father’s home in the city of Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, a month after returning to ...

December 3, 2018

Jane Goodall Among 132 Conservationists Calling for Jailed Colleagues to Receive Fair Trial in Iran

Dozens of conservation practitioners and scholars, including renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, have issued an impassioned defense of eight of their colleagues who have been detained in Iran since ...

October 25, 2018

Lawyer Vows to Seek Justice After Prominent Iranian Activist’s Corpse Found Burned in Car

The corpse of Iranian activist Farshid Hakki was found burned in the trunk of his car near his home in Tehran on October 17, 2018. The lawyer representing ...

August 17, 2018

Prolonged Detention of Environmentalists “None of Your Business,” Iran’s Judiciary Tells Vice President

The chief of Iran’s Department of Environment, Vice President Isa Kalantari, has told state media that the judiciary has warned him to stop enquiring about environmentalists who have been ...

June 28, 2018

Injuries Reported After Iran’s Detained Environmentalists Subjected to Renewed Interrogations

Environmentalists detained without charge for the past five months in Tehran’s Evin Prison are once again being subjected to interrogations in the prison’s Ward 2-A under the control of the Islamic ...

May 31, 2018

15 Arrested at Aborted Talks Over Water Dispute in Southwestern Iran

Fifteen negotiators representing protesting farmers in the southern Iranian province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad were arrested on May 29, 2018, as they showed up for talks over a water dispute. “This morning ...

April 26, 2018

Iranian Hardliners Continue Attacks on Former Environmental Official Kaveh Madani

 Western-Educated Water Management Expert Left Iran After Being Arrested by IRGC’s Intelligence Organization Hardline media outlets in Iran with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have continued ...

April 23, 2018

“Revealing” Preliminary Autopsy Report Omits Cause of Death of Iranian Canadian Who Died in Iranian Prison

Family and UN Officials Have Called for Investigation Into Claims Kavous Seyed-Emami Committed Suicide Two months have passed since Iranian Canadian academic and environmentalist Kavous Seyed-Emami died in Iran’s ...

March 13, 2018

Iran: End Persecution of Families Seeking Truth and Justice For Detainees Who Died in Detention

JOINT PUBLIC STATEMENT 13 March 2018  The Iranian authorities should end their cruel campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of detainees who have died in detention under suspicious circumstances, Amnesty International, the Center for Human Rights in Iran, ...

February 12, 2018

Clear Signs of State Cover-Up in Prison Death of Iranian-Canadian Academic in Iran

Distraught Family Under Enormous Pressure to Bury Body Quickly and Not Speak Publicly About the Death February 12, 2018—The family of the Iranian-Canadian academic, Kavous Seyed-Emami, whose death in custody in Iran was announced on February 9, ...

February 10, 2018

Iranian-Canadian Academic Dies in Custody While Under Interrogations

A third detainee, 63-year old Iranian-Canadian professor Kavous Seyed-Emami, has died in custody in Iran, barely 17 days after his arrest and while under interrogations ...

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