Zine El Abidine Ghaemi, Khorasani blogger, has been sentenced to 3 years imprisonment by a preliminary court. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Mr. Ghaemi was tried on 20th May, on charges of propaganda against the regime, insulting the leadership and disturbing public opinion, by the Revolutionary […]
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Young Activist Sentenced to 12.5 Years in Prison for Facebook Posts
A Revolutionary Court in Tehran has sentenced artist and civil rights activist Atena Faraghdani to a total of 12.5 years in prison for drawings and content critical of the government that the young activist posted on her Facebook page. Faraghdani’s lawyer, Mohammad Moghimi, stated in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights […]
Young Activist Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Facebook Postings and Peaceful Protest
A young civil activist who has been held at Evin Prison since October 2014 has been sentenced to seven years in prison at her interrogator’s urging, a source close to the case told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, for her Facebook postings and her participation in peaceful gatherings. Atena Daemi, 27, […]
Behnam Ebrahimzadeh Sentenced to another 9 Years in Prison
Behnam Ebrahimzadeh has been sentenced to another 9 years in prison in relation to the events of “Black Thursday” of ward 350 in Evin prison. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Behnam Ebrahimzadeh was transferred to ward 209 in Evin prison after the incidents in ward 350 of Evin […]
Dervish Cleric Was Sentenced to Being Defrocked
Clergy and Gonabadi Dervish, Mr. Mohammad Nouri who has been recently tried in Special Clerical Court in the city of Sari because of being a Dervish, was convicted and defrocked.According to Majzooban Noor, clergy Mr. Mohammad Nouri who is affiliated with the largest Mystical order in Iran, The Nematollahi Sultan Ali Shahi Gonabadi Order, […]
Eleven Internet Professionals Sentenced to One to Eleven Years in Prison
Yadollah Movahed, the Prosecutor for Kerman Province General and Revolutionary Courts Eleven Kerman Province Internet professionals have been sentenced to prison, with terms ranging from one to eleven years. Yadollah Movahed, the Prosecutor for Kerman Province General and Revolutionary Courts, said at a press conference on June 19, 2014, that the eleven individuals were arrested […]
Four Dervishes Sentenced to 28 Years in Exile on Charge of “Enmity with God”
Branch 2 of Shiraz’s Revolutionary Court convicted four jailed Gonabadi Dervishes from Fars province and sentencing them to seven years each into exile on charges of “enmity with God, and corruption on earth”.According to a report by Majzooban Noor, the Shiraz Revolutionary Court issued its verdict against four Gonabadi Dervishes named Mohammad-Ali Dehghan Bouraki, […]
35 Gonabadi Dervishes Sentenced to a Total of 85 Years of Discretionary Imprisonment
The First Branch of General Court in Kavar sentenced 35 Gonabadi Dervishes residents of Kavar county in Fars Province to a total of 85 years of discretionary imprisonment and paying blood money.As reported by Majzooban Noor, 113 people consisting of Basij personnel and clergymen had filed lawsuits against the Dervishes accusing them of “involvement in […]
Karroubi campaign worker Sentenced to Seven Years for Strange Charges
A source close to the family of imprisoned student Maryam Shafipour, who was just sentenced to seven years in prison, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Shafipour received the heavy sentence on strange and irrational charges such as “membership in Facebook,” “applying for a student visa,” “existence of a satellite […]
Amnesty International: Jailed journalist brothers sentenced
Brothers Khosro and Masoud Kordpour, both journalists from Iran’s Kurdish minority, were sentenced on 10 November to prison terms of respectively six years and three-and-a-half years. On 10 December Masoud Korpour wrote an open letter to the Iranian authorities demanding his and his brother’s release. On 10 November, the Mahabad Revolutionary Court in the […]