The Tehran Appellate Court has upheld the 5 year imprisonment sentence of Green Movement activist, Kazem Barjesteh on charges of assembly and collusion with intent to act against the national security. Simultaneously with the Attorney General’s escalating threats against the Iranian Diaspora who are planning to return to Iran, Branch 54 of the Appellate […]
Tag: Evin prison
Former Student Activist Sentenced to Another Year in Prison
A revolutionary court in Tehran has sentenced former student activist and political prisoner Payman Aref to another year in prison on charges of “propaganda against the regime,” marking his third sentence since the disputed 2009 presidential election. Aref wrote on his Facebook page that he and his lawyer, Massoud Oliaei Fard, were summoned by […]
Reza Shahabi on day 8 of hunger strike
Reza Shahabi Zakaria, the labor activist is on hunger strike since his transfer to Rajai Shahr prison. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Reza Shahabi Zakaria, the labor activist and political prisoner, was transferred from ward 350 of Evin to Rajai Shahr prison along with six other prisoners, on […]
Freed Iranian rights lawyer: ‘I’ve a bad feeling about the women I left behind’
The arrest and jailing of Nasrin Sotoudeh prompted an international outcry. Here she speaks of her ordeal Nasrin Sotoudeh’s seven-year-old son, Nima, wants to go out to play. His mother, the leading Iranian human rights lawyer whose arbitrary imprisonment in 2010 sparked an international campaign to free her, has been talking for ages. Nima […]
Behzad Arabgol transferred to ward 5 of Rajai Shahr Prison
Behzad Arabgol was transferred to the ward 5 by the Rajai Shahr prison’s authorities. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), this political prisoner was beforehand exiled from Evin prison to Rajai Shahr prison and he was kept in quarantine till yesterday. His transference to the ward 5 is against […]
7 political prisoners exiled to Rajai Shahr Prison
Seven prisoners of ward number 350 of Evin prison, has been exiled to Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj yesterday morning. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Reza Shahabi, Reza Akbari Monfared, Javad Fooladvand, Asghar Ghottan, Asadollah Hadi, Gholamhossain Asadi and Ali Sallanpoor are the political prisoners who have been […]
Unprecedented 123 Years of Imprisonment For 8 People Active On Facebook In Iran
The Tehran Revolutionary Court, in another illegal action, sentenced 8 men and women, active on Facebook to more than 123 years of imprisonment. Since the authorities have been unable to have any influence on society in trying to ban Facebook, with this action, they seem to be trying to create panic among social network […]
Amnesty International: Prisoners out of solitary confinement
Further information on UA: 94/14 Index: MDE 13/025/2014 Iran Date: 23 May 2014 URGENT ACTION PRISONERS OUT OF SOLITARY CONFINEMENT All the Iranian prisoners taken to solitary confinement in Section 240 of Tehran’s Evin Prison after the 17 April raid, when security officers beat and injured political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, have been […]
Evin infirmary head latest casualty in prison staff changes
Majid Rezazadeh has been removed from his position as the head of the Evin Prison Infirmary, the opposition website Kaleme reports. According to Kaleme, Rezazadeh’s treatment of political prisoners in Evin had been very inappropriate throughout his tenure, adding that his role in the attack on Ward 350 prisoners was “destructive” and “negative”. Kaleme […]
The Families of Imprisoned Gonabadi Dervishes Met with Behzad Nabavi
The families of jailed Gonabadi Dervishes met with Behzad Nabavi yesterday morning on 4th of Khordad 1393 (May 25, 2014). According to Majzooban Noor reporter, following the release of Mr. Behzad Nabavi (a senior member of the reformist group Mojahedin of Islamic Revolution Organization) fromjail, a group of imprisoned Dervishes’s families met with him […]