Prison

Journalist Soroush Farhadian sentenced to one year in prison again

Saeed Mirmohammadi, Soroush Farhadian's lawyer, says that this is the third time in the past three years that the journalist has been charged with "activism"...

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Seven years in prison for giving flowers to people on the subway

Seven civil society activists, two of whom had given flowers to people on the subway, were sentenced to a total of 29 years in prison…

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Continued repression of religious minorities in Iran | A Baha'i citizen was sentenced to 11 years in prison

Continuing the repression of Baha'i citizens in Iran, Ali Ahmadi, a Baha'i citizen living in Ghaemshahr, was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court.

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Civil activist Neda Naji sentenced to 66 months in prison

Neda Naji, a women's rights activist and civil rights activist imprisoned in Iran, was sentenced to 5 years and six months in prison by the Revolutionary Court.

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Families of American and dual-citizen prisoners call for pressure on the Islamic Republic to release their relatives

The families of Bob Levinson, Nazanin Zaghari, Siamak, and Bagher Namazi announced during a meeting in Washington that their concerns about…

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Narges Mohammadi's letter about the torture of detained protesters

Narges Mohammadi, a human rights activist who is in prison, wrote a letter of her observations of the painful situation of two…

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Concerns over repetition of Kahrizak tragedies in recent protests; Fashafoyeh Prison does not have the "necessary facilities" for "this number of detainees"

While unofficial reports indicate a high number of arrests in recent protests in Iran, the head of the Islamic Council…

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"Most detainees are unemployed or low-income."

The head of the Prisons Organization says three provinces have not had access to prisons during the recent nationwide protests. The Tehran Police Commander announced…

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