Prisoner of conscience Saeed Shirzad has been imprisoned for over five years for attempting to help the children of political prisoners access education. Behind bars for over five years, prisoner of ...
UN Press Release, GENEVA (10 July 2019) – UN human rights experts today expressed serious concern that Iran continues to deny appropriate healthcare to detainees, despite repeated calls. “Over several months we have communicated to the Iranian ...
Three political prisoners serving life sentences have been transferred from Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, to Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, 444 miles away, without a court order ...
A political prisoner in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Iran, labor activist Reza Shahabi, has revealed that prison authorities have been providing inmates with livestock feed and ...
Arash Sadeghi (right) and Soheil Arabi in the courtyard of Evin Prison. Lawyer: Arash Sadeghi’s transfer was illegal. A ...
Four political prisoners in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr Prison are being denied medical care after refusing food for more than one month to peacefully demand that the Iranian judiciary ...
Former Political Prisoners Implore Judiciary To Consider Prisoners’ Demands Forty days after more than 15 political prisoners went on a mass hunger strike in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr Prison...
Families Dismayed Over Lack of Critically Needed Medical Treatment at Rajaee Shar Prison August 30, 2017—The medical condition of more than a dozen political prisoners at Iran’s Rajaee Shar Prison, who have been on prolonged ...
“Prisoners must endure their punishment to the fullest” Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi has described hungers strikes undertaken by prisoners as “threats” that the judicial system will not “surrender to.” Dowlatabadi made the comments as more than a dozen political ...
Prisoners Face Denial of Medical Care, Refusal to Transfer Inmates to Hospital despite Life Threatening Illness, Solitary Confinement Aimed at Extracting False Confessions, Poor Nutrition, Denial of Family Visits April 14, 2016—Mohammad Seifzadeh, the prominent Iranian human ...
