Saeed Madani The political activist and university professor Saeed Madani, imprisoned in Iran since January 2012 for his peaceful activism and participation in a nonviolent political opposition group, has ...
Mohammad Ali Taheri, the leader of a spiritual group Mohammad Ali Taheri, the leader of a spiritual group who has been behind ...
Minister of Justice, Mostafa Pourmohammadi Three days after President Hassan Rouhani suggested the possibility of a legal solution to the long-running house arrest of Iran’s former ...
Masoumeh Zia, a member of the Erfan-e Halgheh spiritual group, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she has been sentenced to a year in prison and 74 lashes for “disturbing public order” and taking part in a gathering protesting the ...
In an interview with IRNA, Reza Mahboubi, Deputy Director of the Interior Ministry's Social Affairs Center said that five hundred thousand new inmates and detainees enter Iran's prison system each year. Official records indicate, ...
Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, a Kurdish human rights activist who has been in prison since 2007, has been on a wet hunger strike for over a month to demand visitation rights with his sick child. After visiting him on June 20, Kaboudvand’s wife, Parinaz Baghban Hassani, ...
66-year old Riaz Sobhani, currently in prison for financially assisting the Baha’i Institute of Higher Education (BIHE), was refused medical leave after his recent heart surgery. His son, Naim Sobhani, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his father was transferred to ...
A local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Kurdish political prisoner Ali Moradi has sewn his lips and embarked on a hunger strike since 4 April to protest his “illegal exile from Minab Prison to Bandar Abbas Prison.” The source ...
The parents of imprisoned student Javad Alikhani told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that they watched the guards at Evin Prison beat up their son. Authorities also prevented the family from having an in-person visit. “We had taken heavy duty glue for ...
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 ...
Following a recent pattern of restrictions on political prisoner rights, authorities have forbidden imprisoned labor activist Reza Shahabi from furlough or medical leave. His brother Hassan, Shahabi, told the Campaign that his physical condition is rapidly deteriorating, and he is in need of urgent medical ...
On 8 April, authorities transferred Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, a blogger who has been suffering from kidney and bladder disease while in prison, to Hasheminejad Hospital. His mother, Zoleikha Mousavi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that judicial authorities have denied him medical ...
