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Tag : hengameh shahidi

May 13, 2019

Appeals Court Upholds Lengthy Sentence Against Female Activist for Criticizing Chief Justice

Number of Women Political Prisoners Rising in Iran May 13, 2019 – A Tehran appeals court upheld a 7.5-year prison sentence against prominent political activist Hengameh Shahidi based on her social media posts in which she criticized ...

April 5, 2019

Female Activist in “Very Poor” Health after Nine Months and Counting of Solitary Confinement

Political activist Hengameh Shahidi is in poor health after a nine-month stint in solitary confinement, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has been informed. Arrested on June 26, 2018, ...

January 2, 2019

Political Activist Hengameh Shahidi Held for Six Months in Solitary Without Access to Lawyer

Imprisoned political activist Hengameh Shahidi has been held in solitary confinement for six months with extremely limited access to a lawyer since June 26, 2018, the day she was taken to Tehran’s Evin Prison. “… She ...

September 14, 2018

Iranian Activist Hengameh Shahidi Refuses to Hire New Lawyer Against Judge’s Orders

Detained Iranian political activist and journalist Hengameh Shahidi has defied a judge’s order by refusing to hire a new lawyer. “I have been trying to visit my client ...

June 28, 2018

Iranian Journalist and Political Activist Detained For Criticizing Iran’s Judiciary

Well-known journalist and political activist Hengameh Shahidi was arrested upon leaving a hospital in Iran’s Kish Island after strongly criticizing state policies on social media and in interviews with foreign media. ...

July 13, 2017

Reformist journalist Hengameh Shahidi

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June 18, 2017

Ailing Political Activist Detained Without Charge Subjected to Three-Month Solitary Confinement and Renewed Interrogations

Hengameh Shahidi’s Family Under Media Ban More than three months after her arrest and detainment, ailing political activist Hengameh Shahidi has not been charged and is in poor health while being ...

June 7, 2017

Political Activist Detained Without Charge Subjected to “Illegal” Interrogations in Evin Prison

Ailing political activist Hengameh Shahidi, who has been on hunger strike in Evin Prison since March 16, 2017 to protest her detention without charge, is being subjected to renewed interrogations by security agents ...

May 8, 2017

Family Witnesses Reformist Political Activist Faint From Hunger Strike in Evin Prison

Hengameh Shahidi Held Without Charge or Legal Counsel Since March 2017 More than 50 days into her hunger strike in Evin Prison in Tehran, reformist political activist Hengameh Shahidi fainted in front of ...

April 3, 2017

Hunger-Striking Political Activist Detained Without Charge Writes Will in Evin Prison

After 24 days on hunger strike in Evin Prison in Tehran, reformist political activist Hengameh Shahidi, detained without charge and denied legal counsel since March 9, 2017, has written a will, her mother told the Center for Human ...

March 17, 2017

Former Opposition Leader Aide Refusing Vital Medication During Hunger Strike to Protest Detainment

Reformist activist and former political prisoner Hengameh Shahidi has started a hunger strike and is refusing to take vital prescription medication in protest against her detention, her mother ...

March 16, 2017

Predicting Her Arrest, Reformist Activist Wrote Letters Criticizing Rouhani’s Failure to Protect Citizens

Anticipating her arrest ahead of the 2017 election, a reformist politician wrote two open letters to President Hassan Rouhani about his failure to carry out his campaign promises. ...

October 28, 2016

Pressured by Hardline Group and Revolutionary Guards, University Forces Former Political Prisoner out of Teaching Job

Hengameh Shahidi, a former reformist journalist and political prisoner, has been fired from her teaching position at an Iranian university following threats of violence from a hardline conservative group and pressure from the ...

June 20, 2011

Imprisoned Journalist Hengameh Shahidi on Medical Leave

An informed source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that journalist and political activist Hengameh Shahidi has been allowed medical leave for the first time in eight months. Shahidi was among the journalists and activists arrested after the disputed 2009 presidential election, ...

May 16, 2011

Prominent Female Journalist in Evin Prison’s Methadone Ward

A source close to imprisoned journalist Hengameh Shahidi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the prisoner of conscience spent her 36th birthday inside Evin Prison’s Methadone Ward. After several female political prisoners were transferred to Varamin Prison, Shahidi was transferred from ...

September 21, 2010

Ahmadinejad’s Media Blitz Unfolds as Young Activists Receive Harsh Sentences

While Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has proclaimed Iran’s respect for human rights and freedoms during his current New York media blitz, several prominent young Iranian students, human rights defenders, and journalists received harsh jail sentences in recent days, the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...

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