Authorities Deny Prisoners Medical Treatment and Safety Measures Despite a renewed wave of COVID-19 infections in Iranian prisons, a growing number of infected political prisoners have been denied proper treatment, raising fears of more unnecessary deaths of prisoners ...
Longstanding, Severe Violations of International Standards for Prisoners International Community Should Demand Closure of Facility For more than a decade, the inmates incarcerated at Iran’s Gharchak Prison for women have been desperately protesting inhumane, unsafe and unlawful conditions at the facility ...
Situation of Political Prisoners Worsens as Iranian Government’s Assault on Peaceful Dissent Intensifies Activists, Lawyers, Dissidents being Kept Behind Bars with Continuous New Convictions January ...
Sotoudeh and Three Other Activists Transferred Out of Evin’s Women’s Ward to Other Prisons As part of a new policy to isolate political ...
Long Denied Medical Care, Family Fears for Well-being of Zeinab Jalalian Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian, who has had a history ...
Fears that the ethnic Kurdish Iranian political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian (also spelled Zeynab) could have contracted COVID-19 in Tehran Province’s Gharchak ...
Six Prisoners Posted Extraordinarily High Bail, Unclear Why Fellow Prisoners of Conscience Remain Jailed A Christian convert, four journalists and two ...
Detained women’s rights activist Atefeh Rangriz has been on hunger strike in Gharchak Prison, south of Tehran, since October 16, 2019, to protest the ...
Female Activist Described Inhumane Conditions of Detention in Video Statement *Warning: This article contains content that could be upsetting or disturbing for ...
A 29-year-old woman set herself on fire outside a Tehran courthouse reportedly after hearing that she would have to serve six months in prison after being arrested while ...
Prison Fails to Meet UN’s Minimum Standards for Treatment of Prisoners Two hundred inmates in Ward 5 of Gharchak Prison for women in ...
Four women arrested by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on August 17, 2019, for trying to enter Azadi Stadium in Tehran to watch a men’s soccer game were released on bail ...
Sufi political prisoner Sima Entesari was beaten by an inmate who claims she was promised a case review if she carried out ...
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It has been more than a month since the wife of a Sufi Gonabadi Dervish held in Iran’s Great ...
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In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, celebrated Iranian filmmaker Nasser Taghvai said that despite statements made by the Prosecutor General last week, his wife, actress Marzieh Vafamehr, who was arrested more than a month ago for acting a role ...
While all female political prisoners at Evin Prison were transferred to the prison’s Methadone Ward and told they would soon be moved to Gharchak Prison in Varamin, in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Reza Khandan, Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, said ...
Following the transfer of several female prisoners to Gharchak Prison in Varamin, Iranian lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that according to Iranian law, each prisoner must be transferred to the prison closest to his or her residence. ...
