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 ...
Tag : Environmentalists Detained
February 14, 2019
Ten Detained Political Activists and Environmentalists Denied Counsel in Iran’s Kurdistan Province
Ten political activists and environmentalists arrested in Iran’s Kurdistan Province between December 31, 2018, and January 6, 2019, are being ...
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 ...
October 23, 2018
Iran Charges Environmentalists With National Security Crimes
Prosecutions Lacking Due Process Aimed at Deflecting Attention from Death of One of the Detainees October 23, 2018 – Nine months after a group of ...
September 25, 2018
Families of Iran’s Detained Environmentalists Urge Supreme Leader to Release Their Loved Ones
The families of environmentalists who have been detained for nearly eight months in Iran on unsubstantiated accusations of espionage ...
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 ...
August 3, 2018
Desperate Families Call on Iranian State Heads to Release Detained Environmentalists
Detainees Held For Six Months Without Access to Counsel The families of environmentalists who have been detained in Iran for the ...
August 2, 2018
Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Facing Prison For Criticizing Judiciary
Iranian attorney Mostafa Tork Hamadani has been charged for criticizing the judiciary for barring him and other defense lawyers from defending ...
July 2, 2018
Shots Fired at Protest as Officials Unable to Ease Water Shortage Crisis in Iran’s Khuzestan Province
Shots were reportedly fired during protests over water shortages in the southwestern city of Khorramshahr in Iran’s Khuzestan Province but ...
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 ...
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, ...
May 12, 2018
Rouhani Commission on Detainee Deaths in Iran Fails to Produce Results Three Months After Formation
The fact-finding commission set up by President Hassan Rouhani to investigate the recent spate of ...
May 11, 2018
Dozens of Environmentalists Arrested in Southern Iran in Widening Crackdown
MP: Intelligence Ministry Has Rejected Espionage Claims More than 40 environmentalists, rangers and some of their relatives were arrested May 7-8, 2018, in the ...
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 ...
March 26, 2018
Iranian Environmentalists Remain Detained Months After Arrests While Families Seek Answers
At Least 13 Environmentalists Have Been Detained in Iran Since January 2018 Seven environmentalists who were arrested in Tehran nearly two months ago ...