UN Official Urged to Postpone Trip to Iran
Visiting Before Release of UN Fact-Finding Mission’s First Report on State Atrocities Detrimental to Mandate Islamic Republic Has Refused to Cooperate with Fact-Finding Mission, ...
Tag : Political prisoners in Iran
July 24, 2023
Jailed Rapper Tortured, Forced into Psychiatric Center After Demanding Justice
Saman Yasin: Latest Victim of Iran’s Use of Forced Psychiatric Care to Punish Political Prisoners July 24, 2023 – The forced psychiatric hospitalization of jailed ...
March 13, 2023
Another Abducted Dissident Sentenced to Death in Iran
Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence Against Habib Farajollah Chaab After Show Trial Three Foreign Dissidents Have Been Abducted and Sentenced to Death in Iran Since ...
February 8, 2023
Analysis: Khamenei’s “Pardon” Is a Public Relations Stunt That Cedes No Ground to the Protesters
Previous Pardons Have Not Been Followed by Actual Prisoner Releases Detained Protesters Assumed Guilty, Must “Apologize” First February 8, 2023 - The announced pardons and ...
October 6, 2022
Iran Protests: Scores of Civil Society Members Detained “Preventatively”
Grave Concerns for Torture, Killings of Political Prisoners Amid Mass Arrests October 6, 2022 – Less than three weeks after protests erupted across Iran, ...
November 2, 2021
Iranian Political Prisoner Sets Himself on Fire to Be Heard
Mehdi Darini, a political prisoner in Tehran’s Evin Prison, set himself on fire on October 27, 2021, after his lawful requests for parole ...
August 5, 2021
Musician Marjan Farsad’s New Song Pays Tribute to Iranian Political Prisoners
“My Song is About Stars That Go Missing Every Night” August 5, 2021 – Iranian American musician and songwriter Marjan Farsad released a new song today about political prisoners in Iran, a country where ...
March 1, 2019
Imprisoned Activist Atena Daemi May Have a Debilitating Disease But She’s Being Denied an MRI
Imprisoned civil rights activist Atena Daemi is being denied medical treatment despite possibly suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS), ...
February 8, 2019
“Ten Years is Enough:” Mother of Canadian Resident Imprisoned in Iran Seeks Pardon
The mother of Saeed Malekpour, a Canadian resident imprisoned in Iran since 2008, sent ...
December 20, 2018
Open Letter From Evin Prison: Narges Mohammadi Calls on Tehran Prosecutor to Stop Denying Her Medical Treatment
Iranian political prisoner Narges Mohammadi has written an open letter calling on Jafari Dowlatabadi, the prosecutor general ...
October 4, 2018
Fact Sheets and Infographics on Human Rights in Iran
These fact sheets and infographics have been produced by the Center for Human Rights in Iran on issues including deaths of political prisoners in state ...
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 ...
March 10, 2018
Father and Son Political Prisoners Kept on Death Row in Iran For Eight Years Despite Deteriorating Health
Two prisoners of conscience who have been behind bars for nearly a decade in Tehran’s Evin ...
September 4, 2017
Journalist Loses Eye and Part of His Face to Cancer Untreated While in Prison
Journalist Alireza Rajaee loses an eye ...
July 28, 2011
Shirin Ebadi Criticizes Violations of Prisoners’ Rights
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, lawyer, head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi harshly criticized the limitations imposed on Iranian political prisoners. She emphasized the lack of allowing prisoners furlough ...