Following reports that Iran’s Supreme Leader has pardoned 130 prisoners charged with security crimes, the Tehran Prosecutor’s office announced that so far about 90 prisoners have been released.
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Political Prisoners Were Lashed In Evin Prison During The Most Sacred Days In Ramadan
Step by step escalation of extremely harsh treatment of the political prisoners in Evin prison continued with lashing of some of the political prisoners and summoning to prison the people whose sentences were issued long ago, entered a new phase during Ghadr nights in Ramadan (The assassination of Imam Ali that is mourned by the […]
Mousavi adviser calls on non-aligned movement to highlight plight of political prisoners in Iran
The release of Green Movement leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi is the only way out of the country’s current crisis, said the spokesperson for the Coordination Council of the Green Path of Hope.
Iranian Authorities Hold Political Prisoners Hostage
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Laureate, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI) said in a joint statement today: Conditions of prisoners in Iran are deteriorating by the day.
28 Kurdish prisoners facing death sentence
At least 28 Kurdish prisoners face execution in Iranian prisons, says the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.
A Letter To Ahmad Shaheed ; Concerns About Prisoners’ Health
Ardeshir Amirarjmand, spoksperson of The Coordinating Council for the Green Path of Hope of Iran, has sent a letter to Ahmad Shaheed, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights Situation of the Islamic Republic of Iran to draw his attention to the plight of a number of political prisoners whose health […]
Officials Should Stop Denying the Existence of Political Prisoners
Iranian officials should cease spreading lies and disinformation about the existence of political prisoners as they are simultaneously imprisoning hundreds for exercising their legal rights, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today.
Iran: Death penalty for every case – ethnic protests, prisoners of conscience, drinking alcohol…
Karim Lahidji, vice president of FIDH and president of LDDHI, said : “The authorities in the Islamic Republic of Iran are relentlessly pursuing their policy of state terror against any form of dissent by imposing and implementing the death penalty.
5 Political Prisoners In Ward 240 Of Evin Prison Solitary Confinement Launch A Hunger Strike
Farshad Ghorbanpour, Saeed Matinpour, Saeed Jalalifar, Javad Alikhani and Arash Saghar imprisoned in solitary confinement in Ward 240 of Evin prison have launched a hunger strike.
After Anniversary Protest in Evin Prison, 6 Prisoners Transferred to Intelligence Ward
On the third anniversary of the disputed 2009 Iranian presidential election, six political prisoners have been transferred to the Intelligence Ministry’s Ward 209 at Evin Prison. Sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that they are concerned about the way the intelligence forces may treat these prisoners.