Atena Daemi Begins New Prison Sentence on Day She Was to Be Freed
Rights Activist Will Serve Two More Years in Prison After Serving Five More New Cases Opened Against Daemi, Maryam Akbari Monfared, Leila Hosseinzadeh ...
Tag : Maryam Akbari-Monfared
October 24, 2019
Another Mother Denied Visits With Children Under Evin Prison’s New Director
Following additional restrictions imposed on political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin Prison by its newly appointed Director Gholamreza Ziaei, Maryam Akbari-Monfared’s visits with ...
May 20, 2019
Iran: Release Political Prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared
Behind Bars Unjustly Since 2009, Eligible for Release in 2017 May 20, 2019—Iran must end the cruel and unlawful imprisonment of Maryam ...
July 11, 2018
Free Iran’s Political Prisoners
July 12, 2018--During a speech in March 2018, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that no one in Iran ...
December 8, 2017
Opposition Leader Under House Arrest Offers to Serve Remainder of Imprisoned Mothers’ Sentences
Zahra Rahnavard, who has been under extrajudicial house arrest with her husband ...
September 29, 2017
Outspoken Political Prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared Denied Medical Care and Furlough
Political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared is being denied specialized medical care despite her worsening health, according to her husband, Hassan Jafari. “Thyroid disease is causing her a lot of suffering,” he told CHRI ...
September 12, 2017
Maryam Akbari-Monfared: Political Prisoner and Mother in Evin Prison Iran
Maryam Akbari-Monfared was forced to spend her childhood visiting family members in state prisons and cemeteries. Her three brothers and sister, all political prisoners, were executed without trial in the 1980s, and now Maryam is a political prisoner ...
August 14, 2017
Political Prisoner Responds to “Dolled-Up” Evin Prison Visit by Foreign Ambassadors
A political prisoner held in Evin Prison since 2009 has harshly criticized a state-organized “dolled-up” tour ...
March 8, 2017
Iran: Repression of those seeking truth and justice for 1980s killings needs to stop
In a joint statement 20 human rights organizations urged the Iranian authorities to stop their attempts to silence human rights defenders and others seeking to shed light on past atrocities. ...
November 16, 2016
Authorities Punish Political Prisoner by Denying Medical Treatment, Visitation Rights
Political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared has been threatened with the revocation of her visitation rights and ...
October 28, 2016
Political Prisoner Remains Jailed Two Years After Family Posts $362,000 Bail Amount
Intelligence Ministry Blocks Release of Maryam Akbari-Monfared Two years ago the family of political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared posted an unusually high bail amount for her temporary ...