The opposition website Kaleme reported on Thursday June 26 that Tooti Soltani, the missing mother of political prisoner Mohsen Qashqaizadeh, was found to have been killed in a road accident. Soltani went missing on May 19 after leaving the Evin Prison Visitors Hall. The report adds that Soltani’s remains were transferred to the coroner’s […]
Tag: families of political prisoners
Evin prisoners’ families complain about beatings
Irina Bukova, the Director General of UNESCO, visited historic sites and buildings in Isfahan today Monday April 28, 2014. The families of political prisoners in Ward 350 of Evin Prison have filed a complaint against four judiciary officials in connection with recent incidents at the prison. The Kaleme website reports that the families have […]
Families of political prisoners arrested and threatened
Intelligence and security forces rushed into the house of families of political prisoners who were beaten on black Thursday, and threatened them and arrested some of them, on Friday, April 26th. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the intelligence and security forces visited some families of prisoners who were […]
Families join condemned prisoners’ hunger strike
The families of four Iranian political prisoners sentenced to death say they are starting a hunger strike in support of their kin. The Mukrian News Agency reports that the four Sunni prisoners, Kamal Mollayi, Hamed Ahmadi, Jamshid Dehghani and Jahangir Dehghani, have been on their own hunger strike for 65 days to protest their […]