Sufi Prisoners Denied Medical Treatment for Painful Pellet Wounds
Prison Official: “We shot to kill you, not to treat you” Two Sufi Muslims imprisoned in Iran’s Great Tehran ...
Tag : Great Tehran Penitentiary
January 2, 2019
Food With “Rodent Feces” Served to Political Prisoners in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary
The food served at the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) is unsanitary and has been found to contain rodent feces, making ...
November 2, 2018
Sufi Prisoners Illegally Being Held With Dangerous Inmates in Tehran Penitentiary, Say Families
Dozens of Sufi prisoners are being illegally held in a ward for drug-addicted prisoners in the Great ...
October 12, 2018
Great Tehran Penitentiary Imposes Information Blackout on Eight Sufi Detainees Held in Solitary Confinement
It has been more than a month since the wife of a Sufi Gonabadi Dervish held in Iran’s Great ...
October 4, 2018
Man Serving Seven Years in an Iranian Prison For His Facebook Posts Slapped With An Additional Three
Prisoner of conscience Soheil Arabi has been sentenced to three more years behind bars—increasing his ...
August 31, 2018
Tehran Penitentiary Guards Launch “Brutal” Attack on Imprisoned Sufi Muslims
Guards in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) attacked and beat detainees inside Ward 3 ...
August 25, 2018
Journalist Recounts “Inhumane” Living Conditions at Tehran Penitentiary
An Iranian journalist who was detained at Iran’s Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary (GTCP) has written ...
August 24, 2018
Fourth Human Rights Lawyer Slapped With National Security Charges in Iran
Arash Keykhosravi, a lawyer representing the family of an Iranian Canadian man who recently died under suspicious circumstances in state custody, has been slapped with national security charges, making him the fourth defense attorney detained under this pretense in Iran ...
June 12, 2018
Sufi Detainees Tried En Masse in Iran as Some Launch Hunger Strike Against Denial of Due Process
Eight detained members of the Sufi Gonabadi Order have gone on hunger strike at the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) to protest prison conditions and the state’s ...
June 7, 2018
Telegram Channel Admin Could Get Death Penalty For “Insulting the Prophet”
Weakened by his hunger strike, prisoner of conscience Hamidreza Amini was transferred to a hospital in hand and ankle cuffs but was returned to prison before the treatment ...
March 13, 2018
Family of Man Who Died in Detention to Sue Judicial Authorities For Burying Him Without Permission
The family of a man who died in police custody in Iran intends to sue judicial authorities for burying him without their permission the ...
August 8, 2017
Labor Activist Describes Torture and Inhumane Living Conditions at Iran’s Largest Prison
Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) Teachers rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi witnessed ...
June 17, 2016
Iran’s Judiciary Sues Editor for Exposing Corruption and Poor Treatment of Inmates at Major Penitentiary
Tehran’s chief prosecutor is suing the editor-in-chief of a popular reformist newspaper for publishing a feature piece about a major prison facility in the south ...