November 28, 2017

Political Prisoners in Rajaee Shahr Prison Slapped With New Charges for Engaging in Peaceful Protest

Christian convert Ebrahim Firoozi and political activist Saeed Shirzad. Three prisoners in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr Prison are facing new charges for participating in a ...

August 10, 2016

Five Prisoners Hanged in Iran in Accelerating Rate of Executions

Hangings Follow Twenty Prisoners Executed Last Week Five prisoners were hanged inside Iran’s Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province on the morning of August 8, 2016, ...

April 23, 2012

After 19 Months in Solitary, Death Row Inmate Finally Indicted

Kurdish political prisoner Behrouz Alakhani, currently being held in Orumiyeh Detention Center, is spending his nineteenth month in solitary confinemen. A local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Alakhani has been sentenced to death for “cooperating with PJAK” and “participating ...