Iran: 34 Prisoners Including 10 Protesters on Death Row
International Liberty Association: According to the reports, at least 34 political prisoners and prisoners of conscience are currently sentenced to death in Iran, 10 of whom are protesters who took part in nationwide protests in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Two protesters in Isfahan and Shiraz have already been hanged. Mostafa Salehi was... Read More
Iran executes young wrestler Navid Afkari
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
Wrestling Champion Navid Afkari Executed Despite International Outcries
ILA: Navid Afkari International Liberty Association: Navid Afkari was executed in Adelabad Prison of Shiraz.His family were told that he had been hanged.Despite widespread international outcries in Iran and around the world to stop his execution, the Iranian regime hanged the young Iran protester in a bid to prevent further protests... Read More
DC Photo Exhibition: Iran’s Ongoing Human Rights Violations
DC Exhibition International Liberty Association: The Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC) held a large photo exhibition on Friday, September 4 in Washington, DC on the Iran four decades of systematic human rights violations, particularly the 1988 massacre of 30,000 Iranian political prisoners, the November 2019 killing of... Read More
Political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee: Life does not exist in Qarchak Prison
International Liberty Association: Human right activist prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee sent a letter from the notorious Qarchak Prison on the anniversary of the executions of three Kurdish political prisoners, Zanyar and Loghman Moradi and Ramin Hossein Panahi. Describing Qarchak Prison as “the largest women’s prison in the... Read More
Human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi: “Iran, Killing to Silence the Voice of Protests”
International Liberty Association: Navid Afkari’s death sentence has had many reactions by Human Rights defenders in Iran. Human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi expressed her protest over the death sentences issued for participants in nationwide protests, including Navid Afkari. In an open letter from the Prison of Zanjan where she... Read More
Aida Younesi: My Brother Has Been Pressured to Make A Confession on TV
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
Navid Afkari & His Brother Divulge the Tortures They Have Been Through
ILA: Navid Afkari International Liberty Association: Following the unfair sentences issued for three brothers who had participated in protests in Shiraz in 2018, Navid Afkari and his brother, Vahid, have sent letters and tape recordings out of prison, revealing their tortures at the hands of their interrogators.Navid and Vahid Afkari are... Read More
Call for release of lawyer and Human Rights Defender prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh
ILA: Nasrin Sotoudeh International Liberty Association: Twenty days past the hunger strike by lawyer and human rights defender prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh, she is in critical health conditions in Evin Prison. She has been on hunger strike since 11 August 2020, in protest to the dire sanitary conditions in prison during the pandemic,... 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
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
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
Iran: Upheld Death Sentence For Five Protesters Despite Allegations of Torture & False Confessions
International Liberty Association: Iran Supreme Court has upheld the death sentences of five men who were arrested by security forces during the December 2017 and January 2018 protests.The names of the five people whose death sentences have been upheld by the Supreme Court in Isfahan are Mehdi Salehi Ghale Shahrokhi, Mohammad Bastami,... Read More