July 19, 2021—In a joint statement released today, 10 human rights groups, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, urged the international community to hold Iranian authorities accountable for their ongoing campaigns of persecution against Iranian ...
April 27, 2021 – World powers negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program should present a joint stance against Iran’s cruel and unlawful practice of jailing dual nationals to use as bargaining chips, the Center for ...
April 20, 2021—The situation of dual-nationals and foreign persons taken hostage and imprisoned by the Iranian government has not only remained unchanged, but in certain cases it has deteriorated, despite the new US administration’s approach to ...
In a statement published on February 22, 2021, a relative of two U.S. citizens detained in Iran on trumped-up charges--Baquer Namazi and his son, Siamak Namazi--called on President Joe Biden to secure their release. The statement, ...
The use of prisoners as bargaining chips in order to coerce other governments to provide concessions is a cruel policy” A group of prominent academics, policy experts, former government officials, parliamentarians and diplomats released a statement on ...
Scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert Kept in Bathroom-Like Temporary Holding Cell Since 2018 May 7, 2020 – A British-Australian academic held in isolation in Iran since September 2018, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, has repeatedly attempted suicide and could be in extreme ...
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 ...
April 8, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran today published its unofficial Persian translation of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) interim guidance on how to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19 ...
*This commentary was originally published on NBC News THINK. Iranian officials were dismissive of the threat, and now their belated efforts are running up against the wall of sanctions. But as usual, the most vulnerable will ...
Jailed Attorney, Fellow Political Prisoners Hunger Strike for Freedom Amid COVID-19 Outbreak March 17, 2020 -- At least three political activists in Tehran’s Evin Prison have joined prominent imprisoned human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh’s hunger strike demanding ...
In a letter from Evin Prison in Tehran where he has been held since October 2015, Iranian American businessman Siamak Namazi asked Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi why his requests for furlough have been repeatedly denied while those around him continue to be allowed to go ...
Amiri Was Forced to Choose Lawyer from Court-Issued List The UK-based British Council employee Aras Amiri was jailed in Iran for refusing to spy for the country’s Intelligence Ministry, her cousin, Mohsen Omrani, told the Center for Human ...
April 24, 2019 – Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s statement today that he has the “authority” to exchange Iranian-Americans imprisoned in Iran with the US is a glaring admission that these prisoners are being held as political hostages. “If ...
Iranian satirist Keyomars Marzban, who has been detained in Iran since August 2018, is due to face trial for the charges of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting the sacred” ...
The following open letter was written and signed by six families of dual and foreign nationals who have been imprisoned in Iran. December 3, 2018 An Open Letter to ...
Xiyue Wang (right) with his son and wife. A group of 120 academics and human rights activists of Iranian origin have called on Iran to free imprisoned American scholar Xiyue ...
Lawyers File Appeals With Iran’s Supreme Court and the UN Baquer Namazi, an Iranian American dual national who was imprisoned in Iran in February 2016, has been on furlough “for a considerable length of time” to receive ...
Iranian-American Businessman and His 81-Year-Old Father Remain Held on Unspecified Charges after Sham Prosecution That Lacked Due Process Iranian-American businessman Siamak Namazi and his 81-year-old father Baquer...
Iranian-American Businessman and His 81-Year-Old Father Remain Held on Unspecified Charges after Sham Prosecution That Lacked Due Process Iran’s Appeals Court has upheld a 10-year prison sentence against US resident Nizar ...
The American lawyer representing ailing Iranian-Americans Siamak Namazi and his father, Baquer, serving 10-year sentences in Iran for unspecified espionage charges, has called for US President Donald Trump to immediately secure their release. “If not resolved quickly, the Namazi cases could ...
Iranian-American political prisoner Reza (Robin) Shahini is being held in adverse conditions with dangerous criminals in Gorgan Prison, 186 miles northeast of Tehran in Golestan Province, the International ...
October 25, 2016—The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran calls on Iran’s Judiciary to immediately release on bail the unjustly imprisoned Iranian-American dual citizens Siamak Namazi and his father, Baquer Namazi, and allow them to prepare ...
One year after Iranian-American dual citizen Siamak Namazi was arrested by the Revolutionary Guards in Tehran, media outlets affiliated with the Guards and ...
Lonnie Ali says her husband promoted “good will and understanding between the people of Iran and the United States.” The widow of American boxing legend Muhammad Ali has called on Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, to free Iranian-Americans Siamak ...
Namazi Reportedly on Hunger Strike at Evin Now Siamak Namazi, the Iranian-American businessman who was arrested in October while visiting family in Tehran, is being held incommunicado in Evin Prison and denied access to ...
