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
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: 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: 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
ILA: Hadiseh Sabouri International Liberty Association: Arrested Protester Hadiseh Sabouri is denied medical care in the women’s ward of Evin Prison and is deprived of being visited in a civic medical center.Hadiseh Sabouri is 44 and married with three children. She suffers from various illnesses. Specifically, she underwent a GI... Read More
International Liberty Association: Following the execution of Navid Afkari, in Iran, five United Nations’ human rights experts, including Javaid Rehman, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, condemned the execution of this Iranian wrestling champion. He was arrested during the cross country protests in 2018,... Read More
International Liberty Association: "International Observatory Human Rights" on its News page has published a report of Navid Afkar's execution. the following is part of the report. International Observatory Human Rights: "Over the weekend, Iran has demonstrated yet again its complete disregard for the law, justice and international... Read More
Bahieh Namjou & Navid International Liberty Association: The parents of Navid Afkari had pleaded with the Judiciary to revise his death sentence and allow their sons to be examined by the Coroner’s Office. In their letter to the Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi, Hossein Afkari and Bahieh Namjou, the parents of the Afkari brothers,... Read More
International Liberty Association: According to the reports, the Branch 38 of the Iranian Supreme Court for a third time upheld the death sentences against seven Sunni prisoners on 10 September 10. The Sunni inmates, Farhad Salimi, Qassem Absteh, Davood Abdollahi, Ayub Karimi, Anwar Khezri, Khosrow Besharat, and Kamran Sheikha, have... Read More
ILA: Ali Younesi International Liberty Association: Aida Younesi, the sister of detained award-winning student Ali Younesi says her brother has been pressured to make televised confessions to commute his death sentence. “The Ministry of Intelligence agents in charge of investigating my brother’s case told him on Wednesday that he... Read More
Afkari Brothers International Liberty Association: A revolutionary court in Shiraz has sentenced three brothers to death, lashes and imprisonment for participating at a nationwide protest in Iran, in August 2018.One of the brothers has been sentenced to two times executions, prison, and lashes while two of his brothers were sentenced to... Read More
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
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