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Tag : vakilabad prison

December 16, 2010

Update on Foreign Prisoners in Vakilabad Prison

On 17 November 2010, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported that a citizen of the Philippines, Ernie Tamonde, is being held in Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison on drug charges. The Campaign had received a letter from Tamonde in which he stated being held ...

December 8, 2010

20 More Executions in Mashad Amidst Continued Silence from the Judiciary

Following the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran’s reports of secret group executions without due process inside Mashad’s Vakilabad prison, local sources told the Campaign that nine more people were executed on 30 November. The source also reported of 11 executions of individuals for ...

November 17, 2010

Philipine National at Vakilabad Prison Appeals for Help

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has received a letter from a man who identifies himself as Ernie Guienoo Tamonde, a citizen of the Philippines. Tamonde wrote that he is being held inside a prison in Mashad on drug charges but professes his ...

November 11, 2010

Citizens of Nigeria and Ghana Reportedly Put to Death in Secret Group Executions Inside Iran

(11 November 2010) The governments of Nigeria and Ghana should press Iranian authorities to provide a full and transparent account concerning the alleged execution of their citizens inside Iran, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The Campaign has sent letters to ...

November 11, 2010

Executions of Nigerian and Ghanaian Citizens in Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison

Following the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran’s recent reports about the secret executions of death-row prisoners inside Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison, reliable sources told the Campaign that two of the inmates who were recently executed were citizens of Ghana and Nigeria. ...

November 3, 2010

Ten More Secret Executions in Mashad, Foreign Citizens Among Those Executed

According to information obtained by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, the implementation of death sentences in Mashad’s Vakilabad prison continues. Last Tuesday, 26 October, ten more prisoners were executed in a group without any official announcement by the Iranian government. All those ...

November 3, 2010

More Secret Executions in Mashad: 23 Executed in October

Reliable sources continue to present reports to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, indicating widespread, clandestine group executions of hundreds of inmates. Those executed were charged with transportation and storage of drugs and were held in Vakilabad prison in Mashad. The Campaign has ...

October 26, 2010

Weekly Rights Podcast 15

In this week’s ‘Weekly Rights Podcast’: executions at Mashad’s Vakilabad Prison clouded in secrecy, ten executions took place as recently as October 12 and whistleblowers like Ahmad Ghabel have been targeted by authorities; after Ahmadinejad claims Iran is the freest country in the world at ...

October 25, 2010

Multiple Reports of Secret Group Executions in Vakilabad Prison

(25 October 2010) Iran’s judiciary should immediately institute a moratorium on all executions at Vakilabad Prison in Mashad and provide a transparent response to allegations of excessive numbers of executions at the facility, said the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today. ...

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