Three Hangings in Three Days: The Islamic Republic Continues Its Killing Spree
Executions to Silence Dissent After Grossly Unfair Trials Increase in Iran Dissidents and Minorities Targeted, 42 People Executed in Last Ten Days May 8, 2023—The ...
Tag : unfair trials
January 19, 2019
Defense Lawyer Mostafa Tork Hamedani Sentenced to Six Months Imprisonment in Iran
Human rights attorney Mostafa Tork Hamedani has been sentenced to six months imprisonment in Iran for allegedly slandering a former prosecutor, ...
November 29, 2018
Prominent Imprisoned Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Hunger Strikes For Fellow Prisoner Farhad Meysami
Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh started a second hunger strike on November 26, 2018, to protest the Iranian authorities’ ...
July 9, 2018
Facing 20-Year Prison Sentence for Taking Headscarf Off in Public, Woman Flees Iran
“Due to the Injustices of Iran’s Judicial System I Had to Leave Iran” Draconian Sentences Demonstrate the Authorities’ Cultural Tyranny July 10, 2018—Shaparak Shajarizadeh, one ...
September 18, 2015
Artist Goes on Hunger Strike to Protest Prison Staff Verbal Abuse
Atena Faraghdani, Artist and Civil Activist The artist and civil activist Atena Faraghdani, behind ...
August 24, 2015
Imprisoned Cartoonist Grateful for International Courage Award
Atena Faraghdani Jailed artist Atena Faraghdani has expressed gratitude upon hearing she was awarded the 2015 Courage in Cartooning Award ...
August 13, 2015
Political Activist Should Go Free Says Tehran’s Deputy Prosecutor
Mohammad Hossein Rafiee Mohammad Hossein Rafiee, a 71-year-old political activist has been illegally held in detention since June 16, ...
August 11, 2015
Rezaian’s Lawyer Prevented from Responding to Prosecutor’s Accusations
The blatant denial of due process on display on the last day of Jason Rezaian’s trial on August 10, 2015, when his lawyer was not allowed ...
August 10, 2015
Jailed Human Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Needs Urgent Medical Care
Sent Back to Prison despite Doctors’ Insistence She Be Seen by a Specialist Imprisoned rights activist Narges Mohammadi’s medical illnesses have reached a critical stage and require ...
July 20, 2015
Member of Spiritual Group Sentenced to Prison and Lashes
Masoumeh Zia, a member of the Erfan-e Halgheh spiritual group, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she has been sentenced to a year in prison and 74 lashes for “disturbing public order” and taking part in a gathering ...
July 8, 2015
Baha’i Art Teacher Arrested in Front of His Students, No Charges Announced
The Baha’i artist Shahriar Siroos was arrested by Intelligence Ministry agents on June 30 in Tehran and is being held at Evin Prison but the charges against him are not yet clear, a source told the International ...
August 11, 2014
Carton 90: “Dastardly and Unfair,” Says Sattar Beheshti’s Mother of Murderer’s Sentence
Almost two years after the death of dissident blogger Sattar Beheshti under torture while in police detention, Cyber police interrogator Akbar Taghizadeh was sentenced to three years in prison, two years in ...
April 6, 2012
Revolutionary Court Unqualified to Review Case, Says Mohammad Seifzadeh
“Mr. Seifzadeh will not appear at this court session again for the same reason as before–he does not recognize the Revolutionary Court as qualified to review this case. He believes he should be tried in the Tehran Province Criminal Court, in the presence of a ...