Former female cellmates of a group of wildlife conservationists who’ve been unjustly imprisoned in Iran since January 2018 penned the following letter as a tribute to their nature-loving friends on the occasion World Environment Day, June ...
Infected Wildlife Conservationist Sam Rajabi Refused Hospitalization, Cellmates Untested American Citizen Siamak Namazi Held in Same “Cell and Bunk Bed Row” as Rajabi Prisoners Held on Politically Motivated Charges Excluded from Reported Prisoner Releases April 23, 2020 ...
Conservation Scientist Niloufar Bayani: "Every time I... sought help from the authorities, the pressures, threats, and acts of torture increased." Appeals Court Upheld Prison Sentences Against Conservationists on Baseless Charges and Coerced “Confessions” February 20, 2020 – A female ...
Detainees Punished for Complaining That They Were Forced to Make False Statements, Says Lawyer Iranian authorities are refusing to transfer imprisoned conservationist Sam Rajabi to the hospital to treat a serious medical condition, and are continuing to hold three ...
Preliminary Sentences Range Between 6 and 10 Years, Two Still Awaiting Ruling No Evidence of Wrongdoing Ever Found *Update: Two conservationists were sentenced on November 23: Sam Rajabi was sentenced to six years in prison and Abdolreza Koohpayeh to ...
The charge of “corruption on earth,” which can lead to the death penalty under Iranian law, has been dropped against four detained conservationists following intervention by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Center for Human Rights in ...
Wildlife conservationists Niloufar Bayani and Sepideh Kashani have been detained in Iran without due ...
Iran’s judiciary has violated at least seven laws in its handling of the cases of eight wildlife conservationists who’ve been detained on unfounded espionage charges since January 2017, according to the detainees’ families. In a letter ...
International Outcry Against Rampant Denials of Due Process Detained conservationist Morad Tahbaz was summoned to two closed-door sessions February 24-25, 2019, in Tehran’s Revolutionary Court system, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. A ...
Authorities Interrogated Three People, Warned Them Not to Speak About Cases After protesting the prosecution’s use of false statements she had made under the threat of torture, Niloufar Bayani has been absent from three out of ...
Iran Must Guarantee Fair Trial in Upcoming Court Session on February 12 Year-long Detainment Continues while Judiciary Ignores Conclusions of Supreme National Security Council, Intelligence Ministry and Department of Environment February 7, 2019—In light of the upcoming court ...
First Half of Indictment Lacks Evidence, Relies on Statements Made Under Extreme Duress January 30, 2019 – In their first trial session since being detained in Iran one year ago, eight conservationists learned today that the first ...
One Dead, Eight Others At Grave Risk for Harm Detainees, Jailed for 12 Months, Denied Counsel, Could Face Death Penalty January 24, 2019 – Some of the conservationists who have been imprisoned incommunicado in Iran for the past year ...
Prosecutions Lacking Due Process Aimed at Deflecting Attention from Death of One of the Detainees October 23, 2018 – Nine months after a group of environmentalists were imprisoned in Iran without any evidence of wrongdoing and denied due ...
* This article was last updated on October 10, 2018. October 8, 2018 – Five out of the eight environmentalists who have been detained in Iran since January 2018, including a British-Iranian-American national, have been issued preliminary indictments ...
Since January 2018, at least eight environmentalists have been detained in Iran even though the country's own Intelligence Ministry has admitted there's no evidence to support the politically motivated charges the detainees are facing. They include Sam Rajabi, Niloufar Bayani, ...
The families of environmentalists who have been detained for nearly eight months in Iran on unsubstantiated accusations of espionage have sent a letter to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei calling for the detainees to be ...
The chief of Iran’s Department of Environment, Vice President Isa Kalantari, has told state media that the judiciary has warned him to stop enquiring about environmentalists who have been ...
Detainees Held For Six Months Without Access to Counsel The families of environmentalists who have been detained in Iran for the past six months—many in solitary confinement and without counsel—have sent a letter to the three ...
Environmentalists detained without charge for the past five months in Tehran’s Evin Prison are once again being subjected to interrogations in the prison’s Ward 2-A under the control of the Islamic ...
Detainees’ Families Still Seeking Answers More Than Three Months Into Loved Ones’ Arrests President Hassan Rouhani has not responded to a letter by 800 Iranian environmentalists demanding clarification on the “fate” ...
At Least 13 Environmentalists Have Been Detained in Iran Since January 2018 Seven environmentalists who were arrested in Tehran nearly two months ago remain in detention with no or extremely limited access to legal counsel while their families ...
“No one knows if they are well or where they are being held.” Several environmentalists who were arrested by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence ...
