Prison Official: “We shot to kill you, not to treat you” Two Sufi Muslims imprisoned in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) are being denied medical treatment for infected wounds from pellet ...
The food served at the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) is unsanitary and has been found to contain rodent feces, making some prisoners sick, the wife of a political prisoner held there told the ...
Dozens of Sufi prisoners are being illegally held in a ward for drug-addicted prisoners in the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP), one of their relatives told the Center for ...
It has been more than a month since the wife of a Sufi Gonabadi Dervish held in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) has heard from her husband after he was put in solitary confinement ...
Prisoner of conscience Soheil Arabi has been sentenced to three more years behind bars—increasing his total term to 10 years—for engaging in peaceful activism inside the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) ...
Guards in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) attacked and beat detainees inside Ward 3 of the prison on August 29, 2018, and moved some of them into solitary confinement. ...
An Iranian journalist who was detained at Iran’s Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary (GTCP) has written about the jail’s “inhumane” conditions, stating in a Facebook post ...
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 in ...
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 ongoing restrictions on the leader of their faith. The detainees who are refusing food ...
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 was completed. Hamidreza ...
The family of a man who died in police custody in Iran intends to sue judicial authorities for burying him without their permission the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Their attorney, Arash ...
Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) Teachers rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi witnessed torture and inhumane conditions including overcrowding, unsanitary living spaces, intolerable heat with ...
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 of Tehran. The ...
