Civil Rights Defender Farhad Meysami at Risk of Death in Iranian Prison
Meysami Hunger-Striking to Demand End to Political Executions and Compulsory Hijab February 2, 2023 – The UN and international human rights organizations ...
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March 17, 2020
Nasrin Sotoudeh: “If We’re Going to Die, Let Us Be by Our Families’ Sides”
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 ...
February 26, 2020
Coronavirus: Citing Crowded Prisons, Renowned Attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Husband Calls for Release of Political Prisoners
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 ...
November 12, 2019
Man Imprisoned for Protesting Compulsory Hijab Punished by New Evin Prison Director
Farhad Meysami at a protest in Tehran beside current political prisoner and human rights attorney, Nasrin ...
October 16, 2019
Reign of Evin Prison’s New Director Begins with Denial of Political Prisoners’ Rights
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 ...
January 22, 2019
Iran Sentences Men Who Supported Women’s Protests Against Compulsory Hijab to Six Years Prison
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 ...
December 18, 2018
NASA Director Firouz Naderi Calls For Release of Iran’s Political Prisoners
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 ...
December 12, 2018
Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike in Iran Has Died, Another in Grave Danger
Vahid Sayyadi-Nasiri Was on Hunger Strike to Protest Denial of Counsel and Prison Conditions Growing Crisis as Political ...
November 29, 2018
Prominent Imprisoned Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Hunger Strikes For Fellow Prisoner Farhad Meysami
Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh started a second hunger strike on November 26, 2018, to protest the Iranian ...
November 29, 2018
UN Experts: Iran Must Protect Women’s Rights Advocates
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October 19, 2018
Farhad Meysami’s “Life Is In Danger” Two Months Into Debilitating Hunger Strike
"He has been tied to the bed and injected with serum." Imprisoned rights activist Reza Khandan has warned Iranian authorities that another fellow political ...
October 18, 2018
Imprisoned Activist Farhad Meysami “Kept Alive” With IV Drip
Farhad Meysami, an imprisoned civil rights activist, has lost “40 pounds” since beginning a wet ...
October 1, 2018
Civil Rights Activist Farhad Meysami Barricades Himself in Evin Prison Clinic
Meysami Intensifies Hunger Strike and Calls For Release of Reza Khandan Imprisoned civil rights activist Farhad Meysami has resisted medical treatment ...
September 28, 2018
Political Prisoner Farhad Meysami Refusing Food and Medication in Desperate Protest
Political Prisoner Farhad Meysami has intensified his hunger strike against his unjust imprisonment by refusing ...
September 25, 2018
Hunger-Striking Activist Farhad Meysami Refuses To Be Hospitalized in Shackles
Despite his worsening condition, hunger-striking detainee Farhad Meysami refused to be transferred to a hospital ...
September 4, 2018
Detained Civil Rights Activist Refusing to Break Hunger Strike
Farhad Meysami Thin and Pale after More than a Month on Hunger Strike Farhad Meysami, ...
August 15, 2018
Mother of Detained Activist Hears Her Son Being Beaten Over the Phone
“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 ...