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Tag : Soheil Arabi

October 4, 2018

Man Serving Seven Years in an Iranian Prison For His Facebook Posts Slapped With An Additional Three

Prisoner of conscience Soheil Arabi has been sentenced to three more years behind bars—increasing his total term to 10 years—for engaging in peaceful activism inside the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) ...

February 15, 2018

Mother of Ailing Hunger Striker Atena Daemi Assaulted in Front of Evin Prison

  Atena Daemi (right) with her mother Masoumeh Nemati. Masoumeh Nemati, the mother of imprisoned civil rights activist Atena Daemi, was attacked in front of Evin Prison in Tehran on ...

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 ...

September 19, 2017

Wife of Man Imprisoned for Facebook Posts Loses Job After Pressure From IRGC

Every day something bad is happening to him.” Nastaran Naimi, the wife of Soheil Arabi, who was imprisoned in Iran for his Facebook posts, ...

September 9, 2017

Iran’s IRGC Brings “Revenge” Charges Against Man Imprisoned for Facebook Posts and His Wife

An Iranian man imprisoned for his social media postings could face several more years behind bars if he is convicted of new charges brought against him by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). His ...

August 28, 2017

Soheil Arabi Resumes Hunger Strike to Protest Harassment of His Family

Prisoner of conscience Soheil Arabi has restarted his hunger in Tehran’s Evin Prison to protest the persecution of his family by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).  “I have ...

August 4, 2017

Political Prisoner in Solitary Confinement for Hunger Striking Against Wife’s Detention

Soheil Arabi with his wife and daughter. Political prisoner Soheil Arabi, serving a seven-year prison sentence for the content of his personal Facebook posts, was moved to solitary confinement in ...

February 6, 2017

Ailing Political Prisoner Imprisoned for Facebook Posts Denied Medical Care

Soheil Arabi, who is currently serving a seven-and-a-half year prison sentence for the content of his social media posts, is being denied urgent medical care, his lawyer told the ...

August 12, 2016

Man Imprisoned for Facebook Posts Seeks Reduced Sentence

Soheil Arabi, whose death sentence for “insulting the prophet” was struck down by Iran’s Supreme Court in 2015 but remains imprisoned for posting comments critical of the Islamic Republic on social media, ...

October 1, 2015

Facebook Activist Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for “Insulting the Prophet”

Soheil Arabi and his family Soheil Arabi, whose death sentence for “insulting the prophet” was recently struck down by the Supreme Court, has been sentenced ...

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