Tag Archive: international

International Liberty Association: Amnesty International has issued a call for global pressure on the Iranian authorities, including the head of the judiciary, to release Navi Afkari’s brothers Vahid and Habib Afkari.The human rights organization declared on Monday, 7 June, that Habib and Vahid Afkari must be held in conditions meeting... Read More

International Liberty Association: Human rights activist and retired teacher, Nahid Fathalian, has contracted the corona virus at the women’s ward of the notorious Evin Prison, in Tehran.Ms. Fathalian needs to receive proper treatment, while her stay in prison would threaten the health of other prisoners in Women ward of Evin... Read More

International Liberty Association: In May 2021, the persecution of Iran’s religious minorities continued; Members of religious minorities were sentenced to long prison terms on trumped-up charges and in some cases were summoned and detained. Iran has particularly stepped-up pressure on the Baha’i community in Iran, making many... Read More

International Liberty Association: Civil Activist prisoner Soheil Arabi was taken into indictment through a video conference for a new case opened against him in prison, last week.During the session, which was held on Monday, 25 May 2021, through a video conference by the Branch 3 of the Evin Prosecutor’s Office, Mr. Soheil Arabi was... Read More

International Liberty Association: A Court of Appeals upheld the verdict of 12 years in prison, for four Iranian Baha’is solely for being members of their religious community. The Branch 36 of the Tehran Provincial Court of Appeals upheld the convictions of the Baha’i citizens Mona Mehrabi, Elham Karampisheh, Afsaneh Yadegar... Read More

International Liberty Association: According to the reports from Lakan Prison, in Rasht Atena Daemi sent a message out of the prison rejecting the authorities’ offer of asking for an amnesty, and said: I believe that unconditional release is the right of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. The following is the... Read More

International Liberty Association: Farzin Rezaei Roshan, a prisoner of conscience has been transferred to Aminabad psychiatric hospital. Aminabad psychiatric hospital is located in southern Tehran’s Shahr-e-Rey district.Farzin Rezaei Roshan has been kept in prison since March 2020. The prisoner of conscience has been sentenced to... Read More

International Liberty Association: According to the reports from inside Iran, the Branch 29 of Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced Mohammad Hadi Erfanian Kaseb to three months and five days in prison on allegation of “propaganda against the state”. He was handed the verdict just last week.He was tried for his interviews with the... Read More

International Liberty Association: Human Rights prisoner, Arash Sadeghi, was released from Rajai Shahr Prison, in Karaj. Mr. Sadeghi was released under Article 12 of the law on reducing sentencing, after serving 5 years and 6 months in prison, including his previous detention. It should be mentioned that, he was sentenced by the... Read More

International Liberty Association: Saba Kord Afshari has started a hunger strike since Saturday, May 8, 2021, to protest increasing pressure on her family and the families of other political prisoners. She demands that her mother, Raheleh Ahmadi, be released from Evin Prison.Saba Kord Afshari has several times suffered stomach ulcer... Read More

International Liberty Association: In the summer of 1988, more than 30,000 political prisoners, mostly members and supporters of the Islamic republic of Iran main opposition group were executed based on a fatwa of Ruhollah Khomeini.An organization called Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran has released a new statement... Read More

Ali Younesi-Amir Hossein Moradi International Liberty Association: The court hearing scheduled to examine charges leveled against two elite and award-winning students detained in a security ward was called off. Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi, students of Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology, were violently arrested last year... Read More

International Liberty Association: Ardabil appeal court in Iran has upheld prison and flogging sentences against two Azerbaijani Turkic activists.The Branch 10 of Ardabil Court of Appeal has upheld a total of eight months in prison and 40 lashes against Meysam Jolani and Ali Khairjou. Their trial, presided over by Judge Sajjad Habibi,... Read More

International Liberty Association: Prison authorities have put Maryam Akbari Monfared, an Iranian dissident serving a 15-year sentence, under pressure in Semnan prison where she was recently banished to.Political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared has been additional pressure since she was exiled from Evin Prison to the Prison of Semnan on... Read More