Authorities in Iran Intentionally Deny Critical Medical Attention to Political Prisoners September 7, 2022 – A political prisoner’s precarious health situation is raising fears of another preventable death in Iranian state custody due to the ...
Farhad Meysami at a protest in Tehran beside current political prisoner and human rights attorney, Nasrin Sotoudeh. Imprisoned civil rights activist Farhad Meysami was transferred from Evin Prison in Tehran to ...
Female Prisoners of Conscience Denied Phone Contact with Children The appointment of Gholamreza Ziaei, former director of two disreputable prisons in Iran, as the new chief of Evin Prison on July 27, 2019, has been followed by ...
Prisoner of conscience Saeed Shirzad has been imprisoned for over five years for attempting to help the children of political prisoners access education. Behind bars for over five years, prisoner of ...
UN Press Release, GENEVA (10 July 2019) – UN human rights experts today expressed serious concern that Iran continues to deny appropriate healthcare to detainees, despite repeated calls. “Over several months we have communicated to the Iranian ...
“What’s certain is that he needs to be urgently hospitalized” Arash Sadeghi, a political prisoner in Iran, has lost the ability to move his right arm due to an infection on his ...
Iranian political prisoner Saeed Shirzad could lose a kidney if Iranian authorities continue to refuse to hospitalize him outside of Rajaee Shahr Prison where he has been held for the ...
Denial of Medical Care to Political Prisoners Routine in Iran October 1, 2018 – Iranian authorities should immediately free political prisoner Arash Sadeghi so he can receive medical care for serious health issues that require urgent and sustained ...
Inmates in the ward for political prisoners in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr Prison continue to be punished seven months after many of them went on hunger strike to protest their forced move to a high-security ward. Prison officials have denied them ...
Political prisoner Majid Assadi is being denied urgent hospitalization despite severe pain in his spine and digestive problems, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. “The doctor ...
“All they want to do is harass the political prisoners.” The authorities of Rajaee Shahr Prison are keeping political prisoners in unbearably cold conditions without providing protection, a source with contacts inside the ...
Update: Reza Shahabi was released on March 19, 2018. December 19, 2017—The Iranian judiciary should immediately free ailing trade unionist Reza Shahabi, who recently suffered a stroke in Rajaee Shahr Prison, and allow him to receive full ...
An imprisoned trade unionist, Reza Shahabi, has been denied hospitalization despite suffering a stroke, according to a statement by the Union of Workers of the ...
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 ...
Three political prisoners serving life sentences have been transferred from Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, to Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, 444 miles away, without a court order ...
A political prisoner in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Iran, labor activist Reza Shahabi, has revealed that prison authorities have been providing inmates with livestock feed and ...
Three human rights activists held in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Iran have written a letter urging international rights groups to help fellow political prisoner Majid Assadi, who has been denied outside medical treatment despite severe health problems ...
Mohammad Nazari has been imprisoned since 1994. More than 700 Iranian political and civil rights activists have called on one of Iran’s longest ...
Mohammad Nazari has been imprisoned in Iran since 1994 for his membership in a separatist group. The life of one of Iran’s longest serving political prisoners, ...
Four political prisoners in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr Prison are being denied medical care after refusing food for more than one month to peacefully demand that the Iranian judiciary ...
Peaceful Protestors With Roses Arrested Outside Prison At least two political prisoners remain on the hunger strike they began on July 30, 2017, along with more than a dozen inmates in ...
Former Political Prisoners Implore Judiciary To Consider Prisoners’ Demands Forty days after more than 15 political prisoners went on a mass hunger strike in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr Prison...
“Prisoners must endure their punishment to the fullest” Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi has described hungers strikes undertaken by prisoners as “threats” that the judicial system will not “surrender to.” Dowlatabadi made the comments as more than a dozen political ...
Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj. Prisoners Protest Transfer to High-Security Ward Without Medicine or Clothes More than 50 political prisoners in Rajaee Shahr ...
Rajaee Shahr Prison The sudden transfer of dozens of political prisoners in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj to a high-security ward and the denial ...
