Jailed Attorney, Fellow Political Prisoners Hunger Strike for Freedom Amid COVID-19 Outbreak March 17, 2020 -- At least three political activists in Tehran’s Evin Prison have joined prominent imprisoned human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh’s hunger strike demanding ...
Reza Khandan, a women's rights activist and the husband of prominent imprisoned human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, has called on Iranian authorities to release his wife and other prisoners to the extent possible to protect ...
Farhad Meysami at a protest in Tehran beside current political prisoner and human rights attorney, Nasrin Sotoudeh. Imprisoned civil rights activist Farhad Meysami was transferred from Evin Prison in Tehran to ...
Female Prisoners of Conscience Denied Phone Contact with Children The appointment of Gholamreza Ziaei, former director of two disreputable prisons in Iran, as the new chief of Evin Prison on July 27, 2019, has been followed by ...
Reza Khandan and Farhad Meysami Denied Right to a Public Trial Update: On August 11, 2019, the Appeals Court confirmed Farhad Meysami’s six-year prison sentence and reduced the two-year ban on his online activities to one year, his ...
The former director of NASA's Solar System Exploration program, Dr. Firouz Naderi, has joined the international call for Iran to release all political prisoners including Nasrin Sotoudeh, Farhad Meysami and Reza Khandan, who were all imprisoned this year in Iran ...
Vahid Sayyadi-Nasiri Was on Hunger Strike to Protest Denial of Counsel and Prison Conditions Growing Crisis as Political Prisoners Left with No Recourse but to Refuse Food December 12, 2018—The political prisoner Vahid ...
Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh started a second hunger strike on November 26, 2018, to protest the Iranian authorities’ refusal to allow ailing fellow political prisoner Farhad Meysami to receive ...
Farhad Meysami (left), Nasrin Sotoudeh (middle) ...
"He has been tied to the bed and injected with serum." Imprisoned rights activist Reza Khandan has warned Iranian authorities that another fellow political prisoner could die if he is not allowed immediate medical care outside Evin Prison in ...
Farhad Meysami, an imprisoned civil rights activist, has lost “40 pounds” since beginning a wet hunger strike in Evin Prison on August 1, 2018, the day after he was arrested ...
Meysami Intensifies Hunger Strike and Calls For Release of Reza Khandan Imprisoned civil rights activist Farhad Meysami has resisted medical treatment in Evin Prison in Iran to bring attention to his hunger ...
Political Prisoner Farhad Meysami has intensified his hunger strike against his unjust imprisonment by refusing to take medication for a serious illness, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...
Despite his worsening condition, hunger-striking detainee Farhad Meysami refused to be transferred to a hospital outside Tehran’s Evin Prison unless he would be allowed to go without shackles, his mother ...
Farhad Meysami Thin and Pale after More than a Month on Hunger Strike Farhad Meysami, the 48-year-old physician who has been detained in Iran’s Evin Prison since his arrest on ...
“Why is a Lonely, Elderly Mother Being Targeted Like This?” The mother of Farhad Meysami, a civil rights activist who has been detained in Iran since July 2018, says she has received phone calls that sounded like her son was being ...
