Student Activist Sentenced for Attending November Protests 2019

International Liberty Association: Marjan Es’haghi, student activist, a student of political sciences at Tehran University, received a total of five years’ imprisonment for participating in the November 2019 protests.The Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced Marjan Es’haghi to 1 year in prison and 4 years of... Read More

Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur: The situation of human rights in Iran

International Liberty Association: This is a report on the “Statement by Javaid Rehman, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, at the 75th session of the General Assembly - Item 72(c)” In his latest report, Javid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, mentioning the use of torture and... Read More

Tehran University Student Activist Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison

International Liberty Association: Student activist Soha Mortezaei was sentenced to six year in prison for holding a solitary sit-in outside Tehran University in protest to being banned from education for her activities.The verdict which has been announced to Mortezaei’s lawyer has been issued by notorious Judge Abolqasem Salavati of... Read More

Citing COVID risk, Bachelet calls on Iran to release jailed human rights defenders

International Liberty Association: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet expressed her concern at the deteriorating situation of human rights and political prisoners held in Iran’s prisons. The following is highlight of her speech from ohchr.org website:Geneva – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle... Read More

Iran: Supreme Court Refuses to Grant Saba Kord Afshari a Retrial

International Liberty Association: The Branch 28 of Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected a request for a retrial by Civil Activist prisoner Saab Kord Afshari’s lawyers. Kord Afshari received a 15-year prison sentence, which was first reduced in the Court of Appeals but then again surprisingly added to her prison term in May 2020.... Read More

Ahmad Shahid: The Research and Interviews Provide a Deeply Disturbing Picture of The Human Rights Situation in Iran

International Liberty Association: The meeting of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly on Iran was held in New York on Wednesday afternoon (October 24 / November 3).Ahmad Shahid began his report to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly with sympathy for the victims of the earthquake in Azerbaijan and then expressed his... Read More

After Eight Months, Two Well-known Detained Students, Denied Legal Counsel

International Liberty Association: The lawyer of Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi, who were both violently arrested by the security forces in April 2020, says the Iran judiciary officials continue to prevent the two students from access to attorney.Attorney Mostafa Nili said on Tuesday, 4 November that the overseeing assistance... Read More

Zahra Safaei and Golrokh Iraee Attacked and Threatened to Death.

International Liberty Association: Women activist prisoners Zahra Safaei and Golrokh Iraee were once again threatened to death by an ordinary inmate. The woman, hired and provoked by the warden of Qarchak Prison, attacked, and threatened to kill them. The attack took place on Monday night, 2 November 2020. As prisoners are movements... Read More

During the Last Six Months, 12 Prisoners were Saved from Execution in Iran

International Liberty Association: During the last six months of this year; 12 prisoners were saved from execution in Sistan and Baluchestan province in south-west Iran. According to the reports, during the first six months of this year, 12 prisoners in the province who had previously been sentenced to death in separate cases, by the... Read More

Iran: Shaker Behrouz, Innocent Kurdish Prisoner in Death-row

Shaker Behrouz International Liberty Association: Death-row prisoner Shaker Behrouz is innocent. More than 10 witnesses are prepared to testify in his favour.Kurdish political prisoner Shaker Behrouz is a death-row prisoner detained in the Central Prison of Urmia. The First Branch of the Penal Court in Urmia summoned him for a case in... Read More

Civil Activist Prisoner Suffers Heart Attack after Being Harassed and Mistreated

Qarchak Prison International Liberty Association: After being harassed and mistreated by Qarchak Prison officials, Zahra Safaei had a heart stroke. She was taken to the prison’s dispensary but quickly returned to the ward after a brief examination. According to the reports on 27 October 2020, Mr Mirzaii, the deputy warden of Qarchak... Read More

Health of Fatemeh Mosanna Deteriorating in Evin Prison

International Liberty Association: according to the reports from Evin prison, the health of human rights activist prisoner Fatemeh Mosanna held at women’s ward of Evin Prison is deteriorating and the authorities have deprived her of adequate medical treatment. Fatemeh Mosana’s health condition deteriorated on 17 October due to an... Read More

Afkari Brothers Remain Incommunicado After Navid’s Execution

International Liberty Association: Navid Afkari brothers, Habib and Vahid, are still in prison and since Navid was executed they have been taken to solitary confinement Adelabad Prison in early September to stifle their voices. The authorities have denied the Afkari brothers visitations and phone calls with their family since their... Read More

Alarming Conditions of Political Prisoners in Southwest Iran Prison

International Liberty Association: Reports from Iran’s Sheyban Prison indicate that the condition of political prisoners is alarming. This is while that the number of inmates contracting Covid-19 in the prison has jumped up in recent months due to the increase in the number of prisoners in this facility. Prisoners’ access to food is... Read More