In an interview published by Fars News Agency, an Iranian member of parliament (MP) supports the implementation of executions publicly. Nayereh...
Weekly Rights Podcast 30
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: more than 50 officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran have been put on visa restriction lists by the US and...
Secret Group Executions Continue At Ghezel Hessar Prison: 25 More Hanged on 3 July
Local sources told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that 25 prisoners were hanged in a secret group execution inside Ghezel...
Christian Pastor’s Repentance Required for Death Sentence Overturn, Says Lawyer
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, lawyer for Youcef Nadarkhani, a Protestant Christian pastor charged with apostasy, refuted reports by some media outlets that...
Concurrent With Admission of Group Executions, 26 More Hanged Secretly in Mashad
Local sources in Mashad told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that 26 more inmates were hanged at Vakilabad Prison on 15 June...
DEATH IN PRISON: NO ONE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
Since 2003, 17 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience have died while in custody in Iranian prisons allegedly due to torture, medical...
Shirin Ebadi Says Deaths of Political Prisoners is Systematic
In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Noble Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi discussed the hunger strike...
Sixteen More Prisoners Executed Secretly in Mashad on 23 & 24 May
Reliable sources have told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that another round of unannounced secret group executions took place...
Saeed Malekpour’s Death Sentence Thrown Out, New Trial Ordered
FOR THE LATEST ACTIONS AND CASE STATUS INFORMATION SEE: /2012/01/take-action-web-developer-still-at-risk-of-execution/ On June 2, the Free Saeed...
“His Last Wish Was To Embrace Me, But They Didn’t Allow It,” Says Mother Of Executed Inmates
On 17 May the death sentences of two brothers, Mohammad and Abdollah Fathi Shoorbariki, were carried out. Their mother, Mahvash Alasvandi, told the...