Ramin Hossein Panahi, a Kurdish man in danger of imminent execution in Iran, has sewn his lips shut to protest the denial of his rights by prison authorities. “Unfortunately, ...
Kurdish political activist Mokhtar Zarei was summoned and taken into custody in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, on July 21, 2018, for criticizing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a letter, a close associate ...
Photo: Ramin Hossein Panahi has been transferred to an unknown location possibly to face execution. The authorities of Iran’s Sanandaj Central Prison led 24-year-old Kurdish death row prisoner Ramin Hossein ...
Photo: Ramin Hossein Panahi has been transferred to an unknown location possibly to face execution. Lawyer: “Ramin’s case is being processed against ethical standards and existing laws. We have to try ...
A lawyer representing the families of two detainees who died in custody in Iran after being arrested during protests that erupted across the country in December 2017 is ...
Hedayat Ghazali is a psychology student in her final year at Tehran University and head of the authorized publication Roojameh at Tehran University (published in Kurdish). In July 2007 she was arrested with Sabah Nasri and taken to the Central Prison of Sanandaj. ...
Sabah Nasri is a Masters student in political science at Tehran University who was arrested with Hedayat Ghazali in July 2007 in Sanandaj and taken to the Central Intelligence Office. ...
(11 June 2008) Iranian authorities hung Mohammad Hassanzadeh, a youth sentenced to death when he was only 15 years old, on 10 June 2008, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Hassanzadeh, born in 1992, was under the age of 18 when ...
(26 February 2008) An appeals court in city of Sanandaj has sentenced 11 workers to flogging and financial fines for participating in an event celebrating May Day 2007. ...
