Leaked Iran Judiciary Letters Claim Government Ignored Requests For Coronavirus Aid To Prisons
Radiofarda - Amnesty International on Friday released the text of four letters from the hardliner-dominated Judiciary's Prisons Organization written to…
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Iran Opens New Case on Jailed Dissident, Dashing Release Hopes
VOA - Iran has opened a new investigation into a dissident whom it has jailed for most of the past…
Death Sentences for Five Men Upheld Despite Allegations of Torture, False Confessions
CHRI —Death sentences against five men arrested in Isfahan Province, central Iran, in connection with nationwide protests during December 2017-January 2018, have been…
Iran: Prisoner Morteza Pirkhezri Executed at Sanandaj Prison
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - A prisoner on death row for qisas (retribution in-kind) on charges of "premeditated murder" was…
Hardliner Politician In Iran Reportedly Gets Light Sentence After Accusation Of Rape
Radiofarda - The Islamic Republic of Iran's Supreme Court has reportedly acquitted a former member of parliament, Salman Khodadadi, of…
Iran: Leaked official letters reveal state denial of COVID-19 crisis in prisons
Amnesty - Leaked official letters newly obtained by Amnesty International reveal that the Iranian government has ignored repeated pleas by senior…
Iran: Prisoner Morteza Pirkhezri Executed at Sanandaj Prison
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - A prisoner on death row for qisas (retribution in-kind) on charges of "premeditated murder" was…
Bachelet alarmed by threats against prominent Iranian NGO
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, warned against the Iranian Government’s pressure on Imam…
Two female prisoners dead at Iran’s Qarchak prison
Al-Arabia - Two female prisoners who were held at Iran’s Qarchak prison, known as the most dangerous and worst prison…
Grave Concern Over Possible Secret Executions of 5 Iranian Protesters
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - According to the relatives of the five protesters arrested at the December 2017/January 2018 nationwide…