UN Urges Iran to Release Imprisoned American Scholar Xiyue Wang
Xiyue Wang (left) poses for a photo with his son and wife. UN, GENEVA ...
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May 23, 2018
Iranian VP Refutes Espionage Claims Against Detained Environmentalists, Calls for Their Release
The head of Iran’s Department of Environment (DOE), Vice President Isa Kalantari, has publicly rejected claims by hardline judicial officials and media outlets that environmentalists detained in a crackdown by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ...
February 15, 2018
Environmentalists Detained in Iran Denied Legal Counsel Weeks After Arrests
Some Detainees Allowed Brief Contact With Their Families Environmental activists who were detained at the same time as Kavous Seyed-Emami—who recently died in custody—are being denied access to legal counsel, the Center for Human Rights in ...
December 20, 2017
UN Rights Experts Call on Iran to Annul Death Sentence Against Academic and Free Him
GENEVA (20 December 2017) – United Nations human rights experts* have appealed to Iran to annul the death sentence against an Iranian academic, saying they are deeply “disturbed” by ongoing reports of due process failings during ...
December 18, 2017
Forced Confession of Academic on Death Row in Iran Has No Legitimacy
A scene from Ahmadreza Djalali's forced confession that was aired on Iran's state-run IRIB news channel on December 17, 2017. Islamic Republic Has Long History of Forcing False Confessions in Politically ...
October 25, 2017
Swedish Resident Facing Death Penalty: I Was Imprisoned For Refusing to Spy For Iran’s Intelligence Ministry
Ahmadreza Djalali poses for a picture with his wife, Vida Mehran-nia. Ahmadreza Djajali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident who was sentenced to death by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran in October ...
August 1, 2017
Student Imprisoned for Refusing to Spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Denied Visitation Rights
Imprisoned for refusing to spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, Hamid Babaei has been denied visitation rights at Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran. “Today [July 26], like ...