Prison

Fariba Adelkhah staged a sit-in in Evin Prison

Fariba Adelkhah, a French-Iranian researcher who has been detained since June of this year, is protesting the inability to meet…

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Four Baha'i citizens sentenced to a total of 16 months in prison by the Kerman Provincial Court of Appeal

20-year prison sentence for Ehsanollah Amirinia, Nima Rajabzadeh, Armanbandi Amirabad and Amrollah (Amarollah) Khaleqian, four Baha'i citizens…

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Four civil society activists sentenced to a total of 8 years in prison by the Court of Appeal

Akbar Azad, Alireza Farshi, Behnam Sheikhi, and Hamid Manafi Nadarli are four civil society activists who were previously tried in the first instance court…

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Australian citizen imprisoned in Iran: I rejected the IRGC's offer to spy in exchange for reduced prison sentence

The Guardian newspaper published a report on Monday, January 20, stating that Kylie Moore Gilbert, an Australian university professor who...

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Ignorance of the situation of Jafar Ebrahimi, a teacher imprisoned in Iran

Jafar Ebrahimi, a teacher union activist and member of the Tehran Teachers Union, who has been in prison for nearly a month since his arrest…

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Shahnaz Akmali, mother of one of those killed in the 2009 protests, imprisoned again

Shahnaz Akmal, the mother of Mustafa Karim Beigi, one of those killed in the protests after the 2009 elections, is serving a one-year sentence…

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Execution of the prison sentence of Nima Saffar, journalist and writer, on charges of "propaganda activity against the regime in cyberspace"

Nima Saffar, a journalist and writer from Golestan Province, whose 8-month prison sentence was previously upheld by the Court of Appeals…

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Reza Mehregan, one of the signatories of the petition calling for Khamenei's resignation, was sentenced to prison and flogging.

Reza Mehregan, one of the signatories of the letter calling for the resignation of Ayatollah Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, was sentenced to 7 years by the Revolutionary Court…

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