International Liberty Association: The clerical regime lashed Iranian Christian convert Mohammad Reza Omidi 80 times for drinking communion wine. The sentence was carried out on Wednesday, 14 October 2020, at the Prosecutor’s Office of Rasht. Mr. Mohammad Reza (Yuhan) Omidi finished his 2-year sentence on 14 September after which he... Read More

International Liberty Association: Casual teachers of Zanjan Province who had been dismissed from their jobs, held a protest on 11 October 2020. They protested the situation of their employment and livelihood. The dismissed casual teachers gathering outside the Department of Education of Zanjan Province. One month past the reopening... Read More

ILA: Saba Kord Afshari International Liberty Association: Women’s rights prisoner Saba Kord Afshari has not yet received proper medical care and treatment in Evin Prison, two weeks after injury to her ankle.Saba Kord Afshari hurt her ankle two weeks ago. As she was no longer able to walk without a walking stick, she personally opened... Read More

International Liberty Association: The fate of prisoner of conscience, Soheil Arabi, is unknown after he was transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj from the Great Tehran Prison.According to the news, Soheil Arabi was transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj from the Great Tehran Prison in late September. About one month ago he was... Read More

International Liberty Association: On Wednesday, 7 October Narges Mohammadi, spokeswoman and vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, was released from prison in Zanjan after serving her prison sentence. Ms. Mohammadi has been in Evin and Zanjan prisons since 25 April 2015. According to human rights activists, on the... Read More

International Liberty Association: A group of relatives of prisoners executed in the 1988 massacre and 1990s in Iran, protested, demanding Justice for their loved ones.In the summer of 1988, the Iran authorities summarily and extra-judicially executed more than 30,000 of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience held in jails... Read More

International Liberty Association: Mina Rad, a poetess and writer, has been transferred to the notorious Qarchak Prison to serve her prison sentence.Mina Rad is from the city of Doroud in Lorestan Province, western Iran. The Lor poetess and writer was summoned to the media and culture court on 4 July 2020. The court tried her on the... Read More

International Liberty Association: The judicial authorities in the city of Sanandaj extended the detention order for the environmental activist Faranak Jamshidi for a third time, on 28 September 2020.Ms. Jamshidi is presently detained in the Prison of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan Province. Agents of the Intelligence Department... Read More

International Liberty Association: A Christian convert “Maliheh Nazari” was released on bail from Qarchak prison pending the trial.Ms Maliheh Nazari was arrested by the security forces in plain clothes at her home in Tehran and was transferred to Evin Prison, on 30 June 2020.After her arrest, for several weeks her family did not know... Read More

International Liberty Association: Atieh Salehi, Nasrin Ghadiri, Banafsheh Mokhtari, Farzaneh Dimi, Arezoo Mohammadi, Ataullah Malaki, Roya Malaki and Saeed Malaki, 8 Baha'i citizens living in Birjand city were summoned to the Birjand Courthouse during separate summonses to serve their sentences. . Earlier this September, these Baha'i... Read More

International Liberty Association: Prisoner Who Testified about Navid Afkari’s Torture Handed Over to Intelligence. Shahin Naseri, the cellmate of Navid Afkari who had testified in court about the torture of the now executed political prisoner has been handed over to the State Security Force Intelligence, according to Babak Paknia, an... Read More

Iran: Prisoners in Death Row International Liberty Association: Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence against a prisoner who suffered almost 29 years on death row. The prisoner, Moein Salavarzi has languished in a cruel limbo after being arrested and charged with murdering his brother in 1991. In a phone call to his... Read More

International Liberty Association: The 47 countries present at United Nations Human Rights Council meeting, September 2020, condemned the sudden execution of the young Iranian wrestler, Navid Afkari, also demanding the release of Nasrin Sotoudeh and Narges Mohammadi and an end to the repeated violations of human rights in Iran. In a... Read More

International Liberty Association: A court issued an inhuman ruling to separate a 2-year-old toddler from her Christian parents in Iran, despite her “strong emotional bonds” The little girl was subsequently separated from her parents and handed over to the Welfare Organization.The 2-year-old toddler called Lydia was born Muslim but... Read More