Political

Transfer of female political prisoners to smaller prisons; Sotoudeh's husband says they were "exiled" through "lies and deceit"

Reports and news published on social media indicate that after the transfer of Nasrin Sotoudeh, the attorney general and…

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More than 600 writers, civil society and political activists demanded the release of imprisoned writers

بیش از ۶۰۰ نویسنده، شاعر، روزنامه نگار، هنرمند و کنشگر مدنی و سیاسی با حمایت از بیانیه «کانون نویسندگان ایران…

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Iranian regime continues to ignore dangerous conditions of prisoners during COVID-19 pandemic; Farhad Meysami, political prisoner, infected with COVID-19

As the US State Department spokesperson warns about the dire prison conditions in Iran and calls for the release of political prisoners, reports...

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UN: Release Nasrin Sotoudeh and other political prisoners due to the coronavirus crisis

On Tuesday, October 5, the United Nations called on Iran to immediately release Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer and human rights activist, and…

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The endless suffering of political prisoners' families; the suicide of a prisoner's father and the protest of Narges Mohammadi's father against the abuse of his daughter in prison

The father of Amir Hossein Moradi, one of the detainees from the November 2019 protests who has been sentenced to death, has been released due to increasing pressure…

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Yasmin Hanifeh Tabatabaei summoned; This political activist is going to prison for participating in the commemoration of Cyrus Day

Yasmin Hanifeh Tabatabaei, a political activist and member of the Council of the Democratic Front of Iran, who was sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court in late July…

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Statement by 150 people: Afkari's death sentence and the Aban massacre decree had a central focus

A group of political, civil, and human rights activists said in a statement they released that Navid Afkari's execution order came from the same…

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Request to retry Haidar Ghorbani's death sentence rejected; ominous shadow of execution over another prisoner

The Supreme Court rejected the request for a retrial by the defense lawyer of Haidar Ghorbani, a political prisoner sentenced to death, and this…

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