An informed source close to 38-year-old women’s rights activist Fereshteh Shirazi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that since her arrest on 3 September 2011 in the city of Amol, she has had very little contact with her family.
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Security forces’ threatening and pressure on the family of the Martyr Vahid Bananee
According to Majzoobān-i Noor Website’s reporter, after martyrizing of Vahid Banane, one of the Succession of Ni’matullāhī-i Gonābādī Dervīshes, martial and security forces have threatened his family that in case of movement of the other city’s Dervīshes to attend his funeral ceremonies, they will block the entrances to Sarvestan, encounter them and will bury […]
Pressure on Incarcerated Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh & Her Family Increases | Her Sister Giti Now Denied All Visitation Rights
The pressure by prison authorities and security officials on Nasrin Sotoudeh, incarcerated human rights lawyer and her family is mounting on a daily basis. A few weeks ago, her husband, two children and sister were detained for several hours when arriving for their customary visitation, an act that has resulted in Sotoudeh boycotting all […]
Jailed Iranian Lawyer Declines Family Visits
A prominent human rights lawyer jailed in Iran has refused prison visits by her family after they were roughly treated by prison staff, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.
A Woman Killed by Her Basiji Family in Kamyaran
Fatemeh Azadi, a young woman from the northwestern Iranian city of Kamyaran, was heinously killed by the members of her family during a dispute involving her suitor.
Prison Visit With Sotoudeh Ends In Detention And Physical Abuse of Family
Reza Khandan, husband of imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, talked to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about his five-hour detention along with his two children and his sister-in-law.