French National Benjamin Briere Tried on National Security Charges in Iran
Ten months after being arrested in Iran, a French national has been charged with “espionage” and “propaganda against the ...
Tag : vakilabad prison
April 8, 2020
Political Prisoner with COVID-19 Symptoms Denied Treatment, Transferred to Solitary Confinement
Peaceful prisoner of conscience Mohammad Hossein Sepehri, who was imprisoned in the Iranian city of Mashhad after signing an open letter calling on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to resign, was denied hospital treatment and transferred ...
April 8, 2020
Persian Translation: WHO Guidance on Protecting Prison Populations from COVID-19
April 8, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran today published its unofficial Persian translation of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ...
March 11, 2020
Political Prisoners Remain in “Limbo,” Untested for Coronavirus Despite Symptoms
Peaceful Activists in Mashhad’s Vakilabad Prison Left Vulnerable to Infection One week after judicial officials announced they had released tens of thousands of ...
October 18, 2019
14 Women Activists to Be Prosecuted for Demanding Supreme Leader’s Resignation
The prosecution of 14 women who signed a statement demanding the resignation of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will begin ...
November 26, 2018
Three Members of Persecuted Baha’i Faith Summoned to Prison in Iran While Five Others Arrested
Dorri Amri (Esmailpour), 44, began serving her one-year prison sentence in Vakilabad Prison in the Iranian city of Mashhad on November 14, ...
June 27, 2016
Ailing Political Prisoner Denied Critically Needed Medical Care for Her Diabetes
Held with Violent Criminals at Vakilabad Prison for Criticizing the Government on Facebook Political prisoner Nahid (Omolbanin) Gorji has been denied adequate medical ...
January 2, 2012
Secret Executions: Findings Challenge Judiciary’s False Narrative
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published the first public list of 101 victims of secret group executions in Vakilabad Prison today. The Campaign called on the Iranian Parliament and judiciary to immediately institute a moratorium on executions and to move swiftly to ...
October 23, 2011
Secret, Unannounced, Group Executions Continue Inside Iranian Prisons: At Least 14 More Executed Inside Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison
While Iranian authorities remain silence about the executions of drug traffickers inside Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned that seven prisoners were hanged on 11 August, and another seven were hanged on 20 September. According to information received ...
July 28, 2011
Upon Completion of 2-Year Sentence, Unionist Faces New Trial
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the wife of prisoner of conscience Hashem Khastar said that her husband, whose two-year prison term ended, was expected to be released on 26 July; but instead was taken to court and tried ...
July 21, 2011
Secret Executions Continues in Iran: 30 More Hanged in Mashad
Local sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that 30 prisoners convicted of drug trafficking were hanged inside Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison on Wednesday, 29 June (12 inmates), and Sunday, 3 July (18 inmates). As with the other executions of drug traffickers ...
July 21, 2011
Iranian Judiciary Continues to Cover Up Secret Executions; 140 Birjand Executions Confirmed
While Mohammad Bagher Bagheri, Social and Crime Prevention Deputy of South Khorasan Province Judiciary, recently announced that 140 inmates with drug trafficking charges were executed in 2010, so far no judicial officials have made any statements about why the Judiciary and the media refrain from ...
June 28, 2011
Concurrent With Admission of Group Executions, 26 More Hanged Secretly in Mashad
Local sources in Mashad told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that 26 more inmates were hanged at Vakilabad Prison on 15 June 2011. At the same time, the Prosecutor of Mashad Mahmoud Zoghi admitted to secret group executions and without mentioning the ...
June 13, 2011
Sixteen More Prisoners Executed Secretly in Mashad on 23 & 24 May
Reliable sources have told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that another round of unannounced group executions took place in Vakilabad Prison in Mashad on 23 and 24 May. Twelve prisoners were hanged during secret group executions on 23 May. All 12 prisoners were ...
June 8, 2011
Mashad’s Prison Is Hell, Says Political Prisoner’s Wife
Hashem Khastar, leader of Mashad Teachers Union and prisoner at Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison, was transferred to the ward for murder and drug trafficking convicts after publishing a letter exposing the inhumane conditions and secret executions at Vakilabad. In an interview with the International Campaign for ...
May 27, 2011
Secret Group Executions Continue at Vakilabad; Dozens More Executed In April and May
Though Iranian judicial authorities continue to stay silent about the execution of prisoners with drug-trafficking charges inside Mashad's Vakilabad Prison and refuse to acknowledge the executions or related statistics, informed sources tell the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that more than 70 individuals ...
May 26, 2011
Imprisoned Teacher in Death Row Ward at Vakilabad Prison
A human rights activist in the city of Mashad told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Hashem Khastar, a retired teacher from Mashad who was imprisoned inside Security-Political Ward 6/1 of Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison, has been transferred to Hall 102 of Ward ...
May 22, 2011
Secret and Unannounced Executions in Khuzestan
Local sources in Khuzestan Province told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that during the past months, Judiciary authorities did not announce several executions that took place inside the province’s prisons. The Campaign previously reported of dozens of unannounced and secret executions inside ...
May 10, 2011
Prisoner of Conscience Hashem Khastar Describes Illegal Treatment of Prisoners
In an open letter to the Head of the Judiciary and Minister of Intelligence, Seyed Hashem Khastar, retired teacher and prisoner of conscience who has been in prison for close to two years inside Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison without a single day of furlough, described details ...
April 18, 2011
Weekly Rights Podcast 24
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: the Pen American Center honors Nasrin Sotoudeh with their Freedom to Write award for her human rights work; Camp Ashraf in Iraq, home to roughly 3500 members of the People’s Mujahideen, came under attack by the Iraqi military on ...
March 17, 2011
More Secret Group Executions in Mashad Prison, Despite Concerns Raised by UN Secretary General Report
Reliable sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that ten more prisoners were hanged at Vakilabad Prison on Wednesday, 2 March. The ten prisoners were executed without their families or lawyers being informed. This news comes on the heels of the UN ...
February 11, 2011
Weekly Rights Podcast 22
In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: the Campaign calls on the Iranian government to grant a permit for rallies in support of protestors in Egypt and Tunisia; the trial for three American hikers began and their lawyer Massoud Shafiee tells the Campaign he has not ...
February 10, 2011
Spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry Defends Executions
Ramin Mehmanparast, spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, announced that 80% of recent executions were drug related and emphasized that if Iran does not fight drugs, European countries will be harmed. The announcement came on the heels of objections and statements made by human rights organizations ...
January 4, 2011
Javad Larijani’s Admission to Ineffective Death Penalties for Drug Traffickers
While the number of executions related to drug trafficking has startlingly increased in the recent months in Iran, a foreign diplomat told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Javad Larijani, Chief of the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council, has expressed in his ...
January 4, 2011
Three Years in Prison, Three Years in Exile, and a Three Year Ban on Speeches for Religious Scholar
Ahmad Ghabel, a theological researcher and government critic, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran after being released on $50,000 bail by Branch 5 of Mashad’s Revolutionary Courts. “I do not have any new charges. It was claimed that there are new ...