Health and Hygiene

Kurdish political prisoner deprived of medical leave despite serious condition

Iran-HRM - Nearly 800 days after Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian was banished to Yazd prison she has been deprived…

Iranwire - A week after medical staff “aiding and abetting” in abortions became a criminal offence in Iran, the authorities have issued…

Iranwire - At least four female inmates have been infected with tuberculosis at Qarchak Prison, human rights activists report. Cramped,…

The Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company Workers' Union has warned that the health condition of Reza Shahabi, a jailed labor…

Iran-HRM - A political activist who is serving his prison sentence in Mashhad’s Vakil Abad Prison in northeastern Iran has…

Iranwire - Vahid Bagheri was one of the countless ordinary Iranian civilians arrested in the November 2019 protests. He was charged…

Al-Monitor - Amid a host of pressing economic grievances, flaring tensions with the West and Israel and a nuclear deal…

shabtabnews - In a statement IOPHR drew attention on "the latest round of these threats, the elements of the Iranian…

Iran-HRM - According to sources and human rights activists in Iran, several prisoners are currently on hunger strikes in various…

Iran-HRM - The health of a political prisoner with cancer is rapidly deteriorating as the authorities have stopped his lifesaving…