A day after Hossein Ronaghi Maleki’s 26th birthday, his lawyer, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that...
Pressure on Sotoudeh Continues: In-Person Visits With Children Prevented
Evin Prison authorities have once again prevented imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh from visiting her children in person in order to...
Photojournalist’s Family Concerned After Second Phone Call From Evin
A source close to the family of Maryam Majd, a photographer and reporter who was arrested at her parents’ home on 21 June, told the International...
Prisoners Declare End of Hunger Strike
On 26 June 2011, twelve prisoners of conscience declared an end to their nine-day long hunger strike. The prisoners started a hunger strike on 18...
Amnesty Alert: Woman detained for human rights activism
UA: 196/11 Index: MDE 13/063/2011 Iran Date: 23 June 2011 Date: 23 June 2011 URGENT ACTION WOMAN detained FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISM Iranian human...
“I Saw Prison Abuse,” Says Mohammad Nourizad
In an interview with the International Campaign with Human Rights in Iran, Mohammad Nourizad, a filmmaker, journalist and prisoner of conscience...
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...
Lives of Hunger Strikers in Peril
(24 June 2011) Iran’s pattern of prison abuse and neglect demonstrates that the lives of prisoners of conscience are at risk, theInternational...
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...
Hunger Strikers Tell Families They Will Pay Any Price Until Situation Changes
The twelve prisoners inside Evin Prison’s Ward 350, who have been on hunger strike for two days protesting the deaths of Hoda Saber and Haleh...