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Tag : rajaee shahr

February 11, 2021

Letter from Iran: “Political Prisoners Have Nowhere to Turn for Safety and Support”

The married couple Arash Sadeghi and Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi are imprisoned in Iran for engaging in peaceful civil rights activism. In a letter from Rajaee Shahr Prison in the Iranian city of Karaj, political prisoner Arash ...

November 12, 2019

Man Imprisoned for Protesting Compulsory Hijab Punished by New Evin Prison Director

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 ...

June 18, 2018

Sufi Prisoner Mohammad Salas Buried After Sudden Execution Without Family’s Permission

Lawyer: Burial Attended by “200 Anti-Riot Agents” Iranian authorities buried the body of Mohammad Salas after he was executed on June 18, 2018, without his family’s permission at a burial presided by security agents, the Center for ...

May 18, 2018

Iranian Judge Prosecutes Political Prisoner Without a Lawyer, Sentences Him to Five More Years

Political prisoner Mohammad Ali (Pirooz) Mansouri, eligible for conditional release after spending more than a decade in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr and Evin Prisons, has been slapped with additional ...

October 19, 2017

Photo of Smiling Political Prisoners in Iran’s Evin Prison Lands One in Prison Known For Harsh Conditions

Arash Sadeghi (right) and Soheil Arabi in the courtyard of Evin Prison. Lawyer: Arash Sadeghi’s transfer was illegal. A ...

October 9, 2017

Labor Activist Dies From Cancer Left Untreated in Iranian Prison

A photo of Mohammad Jarrahi visiting the ...

September 18, 2017

Two Political Prisoners on 48th Day of Hunger Strike at Rajaee Shahr Prison as Others Shift to Fast

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 ...

September 9, 2017

Authorities Ignore Starving Political Prisoners at Rajaee Shahr Prison, Restrict Family Visitations

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...

August 25, 2011

Imprisoned Political Activist’s Health Deteriorates in Prison

Ali Tabarzadi, son of prisoner of conscience Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights In Iran that his father’s health has deteriorated in prison, and that in the last few months he has experienced serious cardiac complications. Judicial authorities have refused his family’s ...

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