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January 18, 2019

Evin Prison Repeatedly Blocking Nasrin Sotoudeh From Seeing Her Children

Defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh continues to be denied family visits in ...

December 18, 2018

NASA Director Firouz Naderi Calls For Release of Iran’s Political Prisoners

The former director of NASA's Solar System Exploration program, Dr. Firouz Naderi, has joined the international call for Iran to release all political prisoners including Nasrin Sotoudeh, Farhad Meysami and Reza Khandan, who were all imprisoned this year in Iran ...

December 6, 2018

Imprisoned Activist Reza Khandan Defies Politically Motivated Charges, Demands Public Trial

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November 29, 2018

UN Experts: Iran Must Protect Women’s Rights Advocates

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November 15, 2018

Banning Imprisoned Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh From Seeing Her Children is Cruel and Unlawful

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October 19, 2018

Farhad Meysami’s “Life Is In Danger” Two Months Into Debilitating Hunger Strike

"He has been tied to the bed and injected with serum." Imprisoned rights activist Reza Khandan has warned Iranian authorities that another fellow political ...

October 18, 2018

Imprisoned Activist Farhad Meysami “Kept Alive” With IV Drip

Farhad Meysami, an imprisoned civil rights activist, has lost “40 pounds” since beginning a wet ...

October 9, 2018

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Husband Charged With National Security Crimes For Anti-Compulsory Hijab Activism

Sotoudeh’s Sister Threatened With Arrest Imprisoned Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, has been charged ...

October 1, 2018

Civil Rights Activist Farhad Meysami Barricades Himself in Evin Prison Clinic

Meysami Intensifies Hunger Strike and Calls For Release of Reza Khandan Imprisoned civil rights activist Farhad Meysami has resisted medical treatment ...

September 4, 2018

Husband of Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer, Arrested for Speaking Out, Must Be Released Immediately

State Harassment, Arrest of Family Members to Silence Dissent Intensifies in Iran September 4, 2018—Reza Khandan, the husband of imprisoned human ...

August 23, 2018

Intelligence Agents Raid Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Home, Taking Pins as Evidence  

“They’re going to use the pins as criminal evidence, as if they had found bombs” Iranian security agents raided the homes of ...

August 15, 2018

Mother of Detained Activist Hears Her Son Being Beaten Over the Phone

“Why is a Lonely, Elderly Mother Being Targeted Like This?” The mother of Farhad Meysami, a civil rights activist who has been detained in Iran since July 2018, says she ...

July 31, 2018

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Detention Order Extended Under Two National Security Charges

Iran’s judiciary has extended the detention of prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is facing two national ...

July 18, 2018

International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute Condemns Iran’s Jailing of Nasrin Sotoudeh

Iranian defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has been detained in Evin Prison under national security charges since June ...

June 18, 2018

Iranian Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Charged With National Security Crimes For Representing Hijab Protesters

Human Rights Lawyer Threatens to Remove Hijab in Protest After Supporters Beaten Outside Prison Detained Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is facing two national ...

March 31, 2014

Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Summoned to Intelligence Ministry

A few days after a video was posted on YouTube, showing a short speech by human rights lawyer and former prisoner of conscience Nasrin Sotoudeh, she was summoned to the Intelligence Ministry while on a family holiday, according to her husband Reza Khandan’s Facebook page. ...

April 6, 2012

Nasrin Sotoudeh Denied Furlough, Telephone Contact

Prominent human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh was deprived of furlough and telephone contact with her family during the Persian New Year, her husband Reza Khandan told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran in an interview. “Unfortunately, after two years of imprisonment, her leave ...

October 11, 2011

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Husband Summoned Again For Writing Letter to Prosecutor

Reza Khandan, husband of prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, was summoned again to Evin Prison Court last week. Khandan told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the ...

September 26, 2011

Weekly Rights Podcast 37

In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: The Campaign speaks out about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the UN General Assembly in New York; American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal are released from prison; seven documentary filmmakers are arrested and charged with espionage on ...

August 24, 2011

Nasrin Sotoudeh Protests Family Abuse During Prison Visit

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Reza Khandan, husband of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, said that she refrained from attending her weekly visitation ...

August 17, 2011

Weekly Rights Podcast 34

In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: the final verdict on the three imprisoned American hikers, Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal has not been announced; National Press Club president Mark Hamrick condemns journalist Kouhyar Goudarzi’s disappearance and his mother’s arrest; Reza Khandan, husband of ...

August 10, 2011

Prison Visit With Sotoudeh Ends In Detention And Physical Abuse of Family

Reza Khandan, husband of imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, talked to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about his five-hour detention along with his two children and his sister-in-law, during a recent visit with Sotoudeh. Khandan told the Campaign about the disrespectful ...

July 8, 2011

Pressure on Sotoudeh Continues: In-Person Visits With Children Prevented

Evin Prison authorities have once again prevented imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh from visiting her children in person in order to put pressure on her for forced confessions. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, ...

June 1, 2011

Sotoudeh’s Handcuffed Transfer To Bar Association Uncalled For, Says Husband

The first court session for disbarring prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was held at the Iranian Bar Association on 29 May, though she was not allowed ...

May 18, 2011

Prisoners of Conscience Will Not Be Transferred to Gharchak Prison, Says Sotoudeh’s Husband

While all female political prisoners at Evin Prison were transferred to the prison’s Methadone Ward and told they would soon be moved to Gharchak Prison in Varamin, in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Reza Khandan, Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, said ...

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