Iran: Arzhang Davoudi Held Incommunicado in Prison

International Liberty Association: After sending political prisoner Arzhang Davoudi to exile in the prisons of Zabol and Zahedan, in Sistan and Baluchestan Province (SE Iran), the Intelligence Ministry is trying through various means to remove or conceal every trace of him, so that no one can disseminate any information about this... Read More

Demanding heavy bail and putting pressure on the families of Christian prisoners

Mohabat International Liberty Association: The Revolutionary Courts have recently issued the heaviest possible sentences for a number of Christians, and at the same time set unbelievable and strange bails for their temporary release, which ranged from 500 million Tomans to three billion Tomans. It is not clear what the basis for... Read More

Iran’s Judiciary Obliges Executed Protester’s Family to Pay Heavy Compensation

Nazanin & Amir-Hossein International Liberty Association: Iran’s judiciary has ordered the wife of Mostafa Salehi, a young protester who was recently executed, to pay 425 million tomans as blood money. If that sum is not paid, the house and all properties of his bereaved wife and two orphaned children will be confiscated. Reports... Read More

Alireza Farshi from Evin Prison: “Will someone helps the prisoners?”

International Liberty Association: Alireza Farshi Dizjikan, a Turkish (Azerbaijani) activist imprisoned in Evin Prison, has written a letter to the Deputy Chief Justice of Evin Prison, requesting that the prison situation be addressed and that social distancing be observed during the corona outbreak. In the part of the letter, Mr Farshi... Read More

Nasrin Sotoudeh, Human Rights Lawyer, in Critical Condition in Evin Prison

International Liberty Association: Nasrin Sotoudeh, the human rights lawyer prisoner, has been transferred to the clinic of the Evin Prison, due to her critical condition, according to her husband, Mr Reza Khandan.It should be mentioned that Nasrin Sotoudeh started her unlimited hunger strike on 11 August 2020, after sending out an open... Read More

Iran: Unfair Sentences for Women Civil Activists and Religious Minorities

Notorious Evin Prison International Liberty Association: Iran continues to issue unfair sentences against civil activists, protesters, and religious minorities. This is while Iranian prisons are overwhelmed with the spread of the coronavirus. It is a short report and in this report, you will read about some of them.It should be... Read More

Maryam Akbari Monfared and Athena Daemi New Case Trial date and The Branch

International Liberty Association: The trial of Athena Daemi, a civil activist, and Maryam Akbari Monfared, a political prisoner, in connection with a case recently opened during their imprisonment, will be held in the Quds Court on 31 August 2020. The charges against the two political prisoners, held in the women's ward of Evin Prison,... Read More

The Revolutionary Court upheld a 15-year prison sentence for a “Christian couple”

International Liberty Association: According to the Reports from Iran, Assyrian pastor and his wife have been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. The report from Iranian Christian indicates that “Victor Bet Tamraz ” has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and his wife “Shamiram Isavi” has been sentenced to 5 years in... Read More

Four Christian Converts Sentenced to 13 Years Behind Bars

International Liberty Association: Four Christian converts were sentenced to a total of 13 years in prison. Ramin Hassanpour, Hadi Rahimi, Cathrine Sajjadpour, and Sakineh Behjati, were from Rasht, the capital of Gilan Province.Ramin Hassanpour was sentenced to five years in prison, and his wife, Cathrine (Saeedeh) Sajjadpour, sentenced... Read More

Activist Prisoners Among 12 Testing Positive in Evin Prison

International Liberty Association: A random Corona test is done in Ward 8 of Evin Prison on Sunday, 9 August, revealed that 12 of the 17 inmates tested positive.The 12 inmates have been transferred to the prison’s infirmary.Activist teacher Esmail Abdi, labour activist Jafar Azimzadeh, lawyer Amir Salar Davoudi, Majid Azarpay,... Read More

Iran: Kurdish Activist, Heydar Ghorbani, at Risk of Imminent Execution

International Liberty Association: Heydar Ghorbani, a Kurdish prisoner in Iran is facing imminent execution.The Branch 27 of Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against Kurdish prisoner Heydar Ghorbani from the city of Kamyaran in Kurdistan province, western Iran, on Wednesday, 5 August. He has been transferred to the... Read More

Fatemeh Davand, Protester, taken to jail to serve over 5 years Sentence

International Liberty Association: Ms Davand is sentenced to 30 lashes and 65 months in prison for taking part in November 2019 protestsAn Iran protester, Ms Fatemeh Davand was transferred to the Central Prison of Urmia on 6 August 2020, to start serving her jail sentence on the charge of taking part in the November 2019 protests in... Read More

Iran: Tortured Protester, Mostafa Salehi, Executed in Isfahan

International Liberty Association: Iran’s official Judiciary news agency announced that Mostafa Salehi, a young man arrested for participating in late 2017 and early 2018 protests was hanged at dawn today in a prison in Isfahan, central Iran. Mostafa Salehi was one of the protesters arrested during the nationwide protests in 2017-18 in... Read More

Young woman, 32, was hanged in Mashhad after 6 years on the death row

women executed during Rouhani’s tenure reaches 106 International Liberty Association: A young woman was executed on 2 August 2020, in the Central Prison of Mashhad, the state-run media reported today. The woman identified only by her first name, Mehri, had already served six years on the death row.According to the state-run Khorasan... Read More