Shabtabnews – 50 days has past without any information about the physical and psychological condition of the eight Gonabadi Sufis, who were detained at the Fashafiyah Prison, before being attacked and beaten last month by the prison authorities, who were then transferred to an unknown location. No one has heard from them since their transfer and there is a growing concerns …
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The Fashafiyah prison authorities attempt to break the hunger strike of Five Sufi prisoners
Shabtabnews – The authorities of Fashafiyeh prison, attempted to break the hunger strike of five Sufi prisoners through their transfer to the Prison Disciplinary Committee, and harsh judicial threats.
Read More »Iran Sentences Protesters To Heavy Prison Terms
Iran-HRM – New reports indicate the Iranian judiciary is resorting to issuing heavy sentences against protesters and political prisoners. The General Prosecutor of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province said that a court had sentenced six people to prison for writing slogans on walls and ripping up images of Iranian officials, according to the state-run ISNA news agency.
Read More »Authorities Intimidate National Front of Iran into Cancelling Meeting
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Before it could assemble for the first time in 12 months, the National Front of Iran again had to cancel a meeting due to threats of detainment from security forces, who have been impeding the group’s gatherings for the past three years.
Read More »Under Pressure from Security Forces, Samsung Company Fires Baha’i Employee
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – In continued efforts to marginalize the Iranian Baha’i community, Yazd security officials put pressure on the administrator of a Samsung subsidiary to fire marketing representative Sahar Rouhani on the grounds of her faith.
Read More »Arak January Protestors Sentenced to Imprisonment and Lashings
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Six Arak residents arrested amid the January protests were sentenced to one year in prison and 74 lashes each for “disrupting the public peace through participation in an illegal gathering” in Arak’s Criminal Court No.2, Branch 102. The defendants’ sentences allow for detention already served to be counted towards their pending prison terms.
Read More »Maltreatment Results in Hunger Strike of 56 Urmia Prisoners
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- Fifty-six youth and political prisoners declared the launch of a hunger strike on October 17th in defense of their ward mates, many of whom were recently victims of vicious assaults by authorities.
Read More »Golrokh Iraee Calls Citizens to the Defense of Persecuted Activist Soheil Arabi
Human Rights Activist News Agency (HRANA) – Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, a civil rights activist imprisoned at Evin, has written an open letter in response to the recent re-sentencing of Soheil Arabi, a prisoner of conscience in Great Tehran Penitentiary who has been held without furlough since November 7, 2013.
Read More »More than 50 Special Forces Attack Ward 12 of Urmia Central Prison
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – In the latest of a long string of power abuses at Urmia Central Prison, more than 50 special forces responded to prisoner objections with severe beatings, breaking prisoners’ bones, and sending a number of them to solitary confinement on the night of October 15th.
Read More »Iran Executions: A Prisoner Hanged in Maragheh, Two Others in Isfahan
Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Three prisoners were hanged in Iranian cities of Maragheh and Isfahan on murder charges.
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