Former female cellmates of a group of wildlife conservationists who’ve been unjustly imprisoned in Iran since January 2018 penned the following letter as a tribute to their nature-loving friends on the occasion World Environment Day, June ...
The use of prisoners as bargaining chips in order to coerce other governments to provide concessions is a cruel policy” A group of prominent academics, policy experts, former government officials, parliamentarians and diplomats released a statement on ...
April 17, 2020 - UN human rights experts today called on Iran to expand its temporary release of thousands of detainees to include prisoners of conscience and dual and foreign nationals who are still behind bars ...
56,000 Temporarily Freed from Iran's Overcrowded Prisons Amid Coronavirus Outbreak The families of eight conservationists imprisoned in Iran on trumped-up charges have called on Iranian Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi to release them on furlough along with the some ...
Conservation Scientist Niloufar Bayani: "Every time I... sought help from the authorities, the pressures, threats, and acts of torture increased." Appeals Court Upheld Prison Sentences Against Conservationists on Baseless Charges and Coerced “Confessions” February 20, 2020 – A female ...
Detainees Punished for Complaining That They Were Forced to Make False Statements, Says Lawyer Iranian authorities are refusing to transfer imprisoned conservationist Sam Rajabi to the hospital to treat a serious medical condition, and are continuing to hold three ...
Preliminary Sentences Range Between 6 and 10 Years, Two Still Awaiting Ruling No Evidence of Wrongdoing Ever Found *Update: Two conservationists were sentenced on November 23: Sam Rajabi was sentenced to six years in prison and Abdolreza Koohpayeh to ...
Fate of Detainees Unclear Despite Intervention by Supreme Leader Nearly two years after they were first detained in Tehran, eight conservationists have been charged with “cooperation with U.S. and Israeli enemy states against the Islamic Republic of Iran for the purpose ...
The charge of “corruption on earth,” which can lead to the death penalty under Iranian law, has been dropped against four detained conservationists following intervention by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Center for Human Rights in ...
Authorities Interrogated Three People, Warned Them Not to Speak About Cases After protesting the prosecution’s use of false statements she had made under the threat of torture, Niloufar Bayani has been absent from three out of ...
Three Major State Agencies Rejected Charges of Espionage, Indictment Based on Retracted False “Confessions” February 11, 2019 – Amid eight conservationists’ closed-door trial in Iran’s revolutionary court system, the Center for Human Rights ...
Iran Must Guarantee Fair Trial in Upcoming Court Session on February 12 Year-long Detainment Continues while Judiciary Ignores Conclusions of Supreme National Security Council, Intelligence Ministry and Department of Environment February 7, 2019—In light of the upcoming court ...
First Half of Indictment Lacks Evidence, Relies on Statements Made Under Extreme Duress January 30, 2019 – In their first trial session since being detained in Iran one year ago, eight conservationists learned today that the first ...
One Dead, Eight Others At Grave Risk for Harm Detainees, Jailed for 12 Months, Denied Counsel, Could Face Death Penalty January 24, 2019 – Some of the conservationists who have been imprisoned incommunicado in Iran for the past year ...
Prosecutions Lacking Due Process Aimed at Deflecting Attention from Death of One of the Detainees October 23, 2018 – Nine months after a group of environmentalists were imprisoned in Iran without any evidence of wrongdoing and denied due ...
* This article was last updated on October 10, 2018. October 8, 2018 – Five out of the eight environmentalists who have been detained in Iran since January 2018, including a British-Iranian-American national, have been issued preliminary indictments ...
Since January 2018, at least eight environmentalists have been detained in Iran even though the country's own Intelligence Ministry has admitted there's no evidence to support the politically motivated charges the detainees are facing. They include Sam Rajabi, Niloufar Bayani, ...
The families of environmentalists who have been detained for nearly eight months in Iran on unsubstantiated accusations of espionage have sent a letter to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei calling for the detainees to be ...
The chief of Iran’s Department of Environment, Vice President Isa Kalantari, has told state media that the judiciary has warned him to stop enquiring about environmentalists who have been ...
At least 21 (15 dual nationals, five foreign nationals and one foreign permanent resident) were known to be held in Iran (imprisoned, under house arrest, or prohibited from leaving the country) as of July 2022 ...
Detainees’ Families Still Seeking Answers More Than Three Months Into Loved Ones’ Arrests President Hassan Rouhani has not responded to a letter by 800 Iranian environmentalists demanding clarification on the “fate” ...
At Least 13 Environmentalists Have Been Detained in Iran Since January 2018 Seven environmentalists who were arrested in Tehran nearly two months ago remain in detention with no or extremely limited access to legal counsel while their families ...
“No one knows if they are well or where they are being held.” Several environmentalists who were arrested by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence ...
Iranian Canadian academic Kavous Seyed-Emami died in state custody in Tehran's Evin Prison on ...
