Activists Arrested After Mass Strike in Iran’s Kurdistan Province Against “Revenge” Executions
After a mass strike by Kurdish merchants in western Iran on September 12, 2018, Iranian security forces arrested several ...
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September 10, 2018
Iran’s Execution of Three Kurdish Prisoners is Unlawful and Unjust
All Three Cases Rife with Denial of Due Process and Evidence of Torture and Forced Confessions September 10, 2018—Iran’s ...
January 17, 2017
Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran Fear Reinstatement of Long-Term Visitations Ban
Political prisoners Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi, both ethnic Kurds on death row in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, ...
April 30, 2012
Judiciary Representative Takes Statement of Kurdish Death Row Prisoners
After months of receiving no response to their letters, Zanyar and Loghman Moradi, two Kurdish prisoners on death row, were finally visited by a Judiciary representative on Tuesday, 24 April. A Mr. Khodabakhshi, who identified himself as a representative of the Head of the Iranian ...
January 26, 2012
Death Sentences Upheld for Two Kurdish Political Prisoners
The Iranian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of two Kurdish political prisoners, local sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Prison authorities from Rajaee Shahr Prison allegedly told Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi that their death sentences were upheld. ...
October 24, 2011
“Prison Authorities Say He Won’t Need Warm Winter Clothes As He Will Be Executed”
Eghbal Moradi, father of Zanyar Moradi, a Kurdish prisoner at Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the Supreme Court upheld his son’s death sentence. “My relatives went to prison this week to bring Zanyar warm clothing, ...
March 11, 2011
Imprisoned Kurdish Youth’s Father Appeals for End to Government Crimes
Zanyar Moradi’s father, Eqbal Moradi, recently spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about his 19-year old son’s death sentence. “According to the news that I have heard from Zanyar and Loghman’s prison mates, the two of them have been put under ...
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 8, 2011
Death Row Prisoner’s Father: He is Innocent; His Sentence is Revenge Against Me
Zanyar Moradi is a Kurdish prisoner sentenced to public hanging on charges of moharebeh (enmity against God) and “corruption on earth” whose father, Eqbal Moradi, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran from his home in Kurdistan, Iraq. “Unfortunately, Zanyar’s mother and ...