Iran: A Juvenile offender Mohammad Hassan Rezaii executed

Rezaei-Mohammad-Hassan International Liberty Association: According to the reports received on 31 December 2020, a juvenile offender named Mohammad Hassan Rezaei was executed at dawn on Thursday, 31 December 2020, in Lakan prison, Rasht, in northern Iran.Mr. Rezaei had been transferred to solitary confinement the day before to be prepared... Read More

Maryam Akbari Starts Her 12th Year Prison in Evin Prison

Maryam-Monfared International Liberty Association: Maryam Akbari Monfared started her 12th year in prison on Wednesday, 30 December 2020. She is a political prisoner jailed in Evin since 2009 without one day of furlough.Maryam Akbari was arrested at 3 a.m. on 30 December 30, 2009, after the uprisings on 27 December the same year. In... Read More

Parisa Rafiei’s Referred to the Court of Appeals after the Acquittal, Due to Prosecutor Objection

Parisa Rafiei International Liberty Association: The new case of Parisa Rafiei, a trade union activist at the University of Tehran imprisoned in Evin Prison, was referred to the Court of Appeals after she was acquitted in the initial stage. Ms. Rafiei's charges were previously heard in the Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran on... Read More

Iran: 111th Woman Hanged, Despite Mental Disorders

International Liberty Association: According to the news that we just received, the Iranian Judiciary had a woman hanged in the Central Prison of Sanandaj in the morning of Sunday, 27 December 2020.The execution of Zeinab Khodamoradi has not been announced by the state media in Iran as this news is being published. The woman hanged... Read More

Kurdish prisoners Shaker Behrouz faces a second death sentence

Shaker Behrouz International Liberty Association: According to the reports, a second death penalty has been issued for Shaker Behrouz based on a new case filed against him. Mr. Behrouz is detained in the Central Prison of Urmia.The First Branch of the Penal Court of Urmia issued the second death sentence on Saturday, 26 December, for... Read More

Iran: Deputy Head of the Free Union of Workers Parvin Mohammadi to be jailed

Parvin Mohammadi International Liberty Association: The First Branch of the Unit Implementing the Verdicts at Evin Courthouse summoned Vice President of the Free Union of Iranian Workers Parvin Mohammadi on 20 December 2020.Ms. Mohammadi has been ordered to appear before the court within five days. (SANA website). Deputy Head of the... Read More

New Trumped Up Charges Against Soheil Arabi

Soheil Arabi International Liberty Association: Prisoner of conscience Soheil Arabi was tried with new allegation through a video conference by the Branch 8 of Shahr-e Rey Courthouse on Wednesday, 23 December 2020.As a punishment, Mr. Arabi was relocated from the Great Tehran Penitentiary to Rajai Shahr Prison on 18 September this year.... Read More

Iran: Five Baha’i women Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

Iran: Bahai' women International Liberty Association: Acording to the reports from Mashad, north-east Iran, Five Baha’i women were sentenced to a total of five years imprisonment.The 3re Branch of the Revision Court of Khorasan Razavi Province upheld a total of five years imprisonment sentence for five Baha’i women living in Mashhad,... Read More

Details on the attack on Women Prisoners in Qarchak Prison

Iran: Garchak Prison International Liberty Association: According to the news from inside Iran, Qarchak prison guards attacked the prisoners on Sunday, 13 December this year. In this report we have received more details about this violent raid on women prisoners of conscience and political prisoners in notorious Qarchak... Read More

Afsaneh Azimzadeh, Children’s Rights Activist and Shohreh Hosseini, Civil Activist Arrested

International Liberty Association: Afsaneh Azimzadeh, a children’s rights activist, and Shohreh Hosseini, a civil rights activist and an interpreter, have been arbitrarily arrested in Tehran.Intelligence agents arrested children’s rights activist Afsaneh Azimzadeh on 14 December 2020, and took her to an undisclosed location. Ms.... Read More

UN General Assembly Upbraid Human Rights Violations in Iran

International Liberty Association: The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution on Wednesday, 16 December 2020, censuring the grave and systematic violation of human rights in Iran. The 67th resolution by the highest UN body was adopted by 82 affirmative votes. ILA: The following is a brief report of the UN General Assembly regarding... Read More

Iran: Women’s rights activists sentenced to Imprisonment

Najmeh Vahedi & Hoda Amid International Liberty Association: Two women’s rights activists, Hoda Amid and Najmeh Vahedi, were sentenced to 15 years in prison, in addition to depriving them of social activities by the Revolutionary Court of Tehran.The 15th Branch of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced Hoda Amid, a lawyer and... Read More

Urmia prisoners on dry hunger strike

Central Prison of Urmiia International Liberty Association: According the news from Central Prison of Urmia, North-West Iran, 14 prisoners started a dry hunger strike protesting the Judiciary’s failure to commute their sentences, on the morning of Wednesday, 9 December. These prisoners have staged a sit-in in the sentry room on Friday... Read More

Well-Known Civil Activist, Golrokh Iraee summoned to Evin Prison

International Liberty Association:According to the reports from Iran, the civil activist prisoner Golrokh Iraee summoned to Evin Ward 2A, which is belong to the IRGC Intelligence department. She was summoned to IRGC Ward in Evin Prison on 7 December this year, two days ago. The reason of this summon is not clear yet.Golrokh Iraee is... Read More