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Tag : Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei

October 9, 2023

Joint Letter: 120 Iranian Doctors, Lawyers, and Activists Call for Release of Doctor Jailed for Treating Protesters

Signatories, Including Wounded Protesters, Urge Investigation by UN’s Fact-Finding Mission and Support by International Medical Organizations October 9, 2023 — A group of more ...

June 28, 2023

Iran: State’s “Investigation” of Bar Association Aims to Crush Dissent

Iranian Officials Commit Rights Violations with Impunity While Parliament Votes to Further Persecute Human Rights Defenders June 28, 2023 – Bolstering a state campaign aimed ...

September 7, 2022

Political Prisoner Behnam Mousivand’s Life is in Danger

Authorities in Iran Intentionally Deny Critical Medical Attention to Political Prisoners September 7, 2022 – A political prisoner’s precarious health situation is raising ...

August 5, 2022

Gharchak Prison in Iran: A Cauldron of Abuse and Violations

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 ...

May 17, 2022

UN Urges Iran to Revoke Execution of Swedish Academic Ahmadreza Djalali

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March 23, 2022

Civil Disobedience: Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi Resists Prison Summons

Longtime human rights defender and former prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi is peacefully refusing to report to prison in Tehran to serve an eight-year sentence that was issued against her after a five-minute trial ...

March 10, 2022

Plea to UN to Demand Freedom for Gravely Ill Sepideh Qoliyan

Fears Mount for Young Activist Who is Being Denied Crucial Medical Treatment March 10, 2022 – Two months after two political ...

March 3, 2022

Denial of Medical Treatment for Ailing Political Prisoners in Iran Aimed at Crushing Dissent

Continued Refusal to Provide Proper Medical Care Risks More Prisoner Deaths March 3, 2022 - The continued denial of proper medical ...

January 11, 2022

Imprisoned Journalist Keyvan Samimi is Being Led to His Death

The life of veteran journalist and political activist Keyvan Samimi is in danger as he continues to be unlawfully kept behind bars in Tehran’s Evin Prison despite state officials’ recommendations that he be released to receive treatment for serious health problems ...

January 8, 2022

Iranian Poet Baktash Abtin Dies After Being Arbitrarily Detained in Iran

Abtin, Jailed for Dissent, is Second Political Prisoner to Die in Iran in First Week of 2022 January 8, 2022 – ...

January 3, 2022

Writer in Coma, Another Political Prisoner Dead after Unjust Imprisonment in Iran

Baktash Abtin (left) and Adel Kianpour (right). Concerns Mount for Prisoners Under Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i COVID-19 ...

December 9, 2021

Joint Statement: Free Arbitrarily Detained Right to Health Defenders in Iran

The following joint statement, signed by 23 international human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, calls on Iranian judicial authorities to release the activist Mehdi Mahmoudian and defense attorneys Arash Keykhosravi and Mostafa ...

November 17, 2021

Renowned Activist Narges Mohammadi Arrested on Anniversary of Historic Protests

Mother of Two Facing Flogging, Prison—Two Years After Completing 5.5-Year Sentence November 17, 2021 – The prominent rights advocate Narges Mohammadi was ...

November 10, 2021

Two Years After Iran’s Massacre of Protesters, Officials Who Oversaw Killings Now Lead Government

No Accountability for Hundreds Killed, Thousands Injured and Arrested International Community Must Demand Independent Investigation and Justice for Victims November 10, 2021 -- Two ...

October 20, 2021

Detained Lawyer of Iranian Instagram Star Tortured, Bit Off Tongue After Unidentified Injection

More Political Prisoners Could Die in Custody without Urgent International Action October 20, 2021 – A prominent defense attorney in Iran bit off ...

July 12, 2021

Iranian Judiciary Assumes Sweeping New Powers Over Lawyers

State Now Issues and Revokes Law Licenses, Crushing Independence of Legal Profession Due Process and Fair Trial Rights Dealt Further Blow by New ...

July 6, 2021

Mohseni-Ejei’s Appointment as Iran’s Judiciary Chief Poses Grave Threat to Rights Activists

Judicial System To Be Used To Further Suppress Dissent July 6, 2021—The appointment of Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei, a major human rights violator, ...

January 11, 2019

Former Presidential Candidate Karroubi Did Not Receive Saudi Money, Son Says

False Claims Meant to Divert Attention from “Shame” of Eight Years of House Arrest Without Trial A son of ...

January 10, 2019

Labor Activist’s Revelation of Torture During Detention Prompts Wave of Reports of Abuse in Iran’s Prisons

Esmail Bakhshi’s lawyer says her client is under intense pressure to retract statements about his torture Labor activist Esmail Bakhshi’s public ...

April 20, 2018

Friday Prayer Leader: Farmers in Iran’s Drought-Ridden Isfahan Province Don’t Have the Right to Protest

“As someone who has always been on the farmers’ side, I don’t think they have the right to demonstrate,” ...

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