Forced Confession of Academic on Death Row in Iran Has No Legitimacy
A scene from Ahmadreza Djalali's forced confession that was aired on Iran's state-run IRIB ...
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July 13, 2017
Staged Visit by Foreign Ambassadors to Iran’s Evin Prison Condemned by Rights Activists
A member of the German embassy enters Evin Prison on a red carpet. Abusive Conditions and Political Prisoners ...
August 29, 2016
Unjustly Imprisoned Young Physicist Granted Conditional Release After Five Years
Omid Kokabee’s Release Comes After Months Struggling with Kidney Cancer That Was Left Untreated in Prison August 29, 2016—Imprisoned Iranian scientist Omid Kokabee...
May 25, 2016
Imprisoned Physicist Given Two-Week Medical Furlough After Losing Cancerous Kidney
Imprisoned physicist Omid Kokabee has been granted a two-week medical furlough upon payment of five billion rials ($164,000 USD) bail, ...
April 26, 2016
After Losing Kidney to Cancer, Imprisoned Physicist Must Be Treated for Other Illnesses
Omid Kokabee Could Lose His Life After Years of Denied Medical Care in Iran Prison Omid Kokabee, the young physicist who was imprisoned in ...
April 21, 2016
Imprisoned Physicist Loses Kidney to Cancer, Must Be Released Permanently
Omid Kokabee’s Life Endangered by Years of Denied Medical Care in Iran Prison April 21, 2016—Omid Kokabee, the young physicist who has been imprisoned ...
April 18, 2016
Imprisoned Young Physicist Stricken with Cancer after Years of Denied Medical Care
April 18, 2016—Prisoner of conscience Omid Kokabee, the young physicist who has been imprisoned in Iran for over five years for his refusal to work on ...
November 30, 2015
Untreated Kidney Stones Sends Imprisoned Physicist Omid Kokabee to Hospital
Imprisoned physicist Omid Kokabee was transferred to Taleghani Hospital in Tehran on November 24, 2015, suffering from severe kidney stones, a source told the ...
November 2, 2015
Washington Post OpEd: Free Omid Kokabee, another Iranian prisoner of conscience
By Herbert L. Berk October 30 Herbert L. ...
September 24, 2015
Mother of Imprisoned Physicist Writes Letter to Khamenei Pleading for His Freedom
Omid Kokabee. The mother of Omid Kokabee, a physicist imprisoned in Iran since January 2011, has written a letter to the ...
September 29, 2014
Eighteen Nobel Laureates Call for Immediate Release of Iranian Physicist
(September 29, 2014) The Iranian Judiciary should immediately release the Iranian physicist and prisoner of conscience, Omid Kokabee, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...
May 15, 2012
Iranian physicist sentenced to prison: Nature news and comment
(15 May 2012) Omid Kokabee, an Iranian graduate student who has been imprisoned in Tehran for the past 15 months, was sentenced to 10 years on Sunday for allegedly conspiring with foreign countries against Iran. Judge Abolghasem Salavati of Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolution Court — ...