July 8, 2019

Parliament Faction Links Lacking Accountability to Deaths of Political Prisoners in State Custody

Defense Attorney: Firing Prison Officials Won’t Keep Political Prisoners Safe One month after political prisoner Alireza Shirmohammadali was murdered in the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary (GTCP) after being unlawfully held in a ward with inmates convicted ...

September 14, 2018

Former Ahmadinejad VP, Spokesman Sentenced to Prison in Iran

Two top advisors to former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005-2013) have been sentenced to prison in ...

January 30, 2015

Jason Rezaian To Be Put on Trial Soon, Says Head of Tehran Judiciary

Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post correspondent in Tehran, has been in solitary confinement ...

May 3, 2014

Cartoon 82: Cocktail Party at Evin

Justifying the April 17 raid on political prisoners at Evin Prison’s Ward 350, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the Spokesperson for the Iranian Judiciary and the country’s Prosecutor General claimed on April 28 that the reason for the raid was that, “some individuals tried to make ...

April 28, 2014

Cartoon 81: Ebtekar Newspaper Banned for Reporting Prison Chief’s Ousting

Ebtekar Newspaper was banned after it published news pertaining to removal of Head of Iran's Prisons Organization from office after an April 17, 2014 brutal raid ...

September 16, 2011

Young Political Activist Receives 50 Lashes for Blogging

Somayeh Tohidlou, political activist and Tehran University Ph.D. student in Sociology, wrote in her blog yesterday that authorities at Evin Prison carried out her sentence of 50 lashes. The flogging took ...