VOA – Iran says a female member of a group of eight conservationists on trial for spying has been absent from the courtroom this week as a prosecutor continued reading charges that rights activists say are bogus.
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Unable to Move His Arm, Iranian Political Prisoner Arash Sadeghi Denied Hospitalization for Infected Biopsy Wound
payvand – Arash Sadeghi, a political prisoner in Iran, has lost the ability to move his right arm due to an infection on his shoulder that has been left untreated in Rajaee Shahr Prison, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned.
Read More »Iranian Intelligence Reportedly Making Film Against Jailed Environmentalists
Radiofarda – As the trial for eight prominent Iranian environmentalists charged with “sowing corruption on earth,” and spying, intelligence agents are reportedly set to produce a new pseudo-documentary film against them.
Read More »Iran Holds 3rd Court Hearing for 8 Conservationists Accused of Spying
VOA – Iran says it has held a third session of a closed-door trial of eight Iranian conservationists who have spent a year in detention on spying-related charges that their supporters say are trumped-up.
Read More »US Resident Imprisoned in Iran Nizar Zakka Refused to Make False “Confession” on Film
CHRI – Lebanese-born US resident Nizar Zakka refused to make false statements while being filmed in Evin Prison in Tehran where he has been imprisoned since 2017, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned.
Read More »Women Prisoners In Qarchak Prison violently Transferred To Evin Prison
Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities transferred 40 inmates from Qarchak to Evin Prison, two days after a brutal crackdown on prisoners, inside the women-only Qarchak Prison.
Read More »Iranian political prisoner hunger strikes over prolonged solitary lockup
Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Arzhang Davoudi has staged a hunger strike, protesting the cruel and inhuman conditions he has been forced to endure in solitary confinement.
Read More »Iranian Agents Tried to Frame Detained Conservationists by Staging Scenes to Falsely Implicate Them
CHRI – Three Major State Agencies Rejected Charges of Espionage, Indictment Based on Retracted False “Confessions”
Read More »Grand Ayatollah Speaks Out Against Child Marriage
Radiofarda – The story of an 11-year-old girl, Raha, has once again set off another round of muscle flexing by ayatollahs and Shi’ite sources of emulation over the legal age for marriage.
Read More »Concern Raised Regarding more Detentions of Iranian Labor Activists
RadioZamaneh – The Swedish Trade Union Confederation referred to as LO along with four other labor and workers’ rights organizations in Sweden have issued a joint statement calling on the Iranian authorities to end the arrests and security treatment of Iranian workers and labor rights activists including Esmail Bakhshi, Ali Nejati, Jafar Azimzadeh, Parvin Mohammadi, as well as Sepideh Gholian.
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