Human rights

IranHRM – On the evening of Monday, Aug 20, 2018, security forces raided the house of an environmental activist, Moslem Sobhani in Sanandaj and confiscated a number of his personal belongings while arresting and transferring him to an unknown location.

iranhumanrights – “They’re going to use the pins as criminal evidence, as if they had found bombs” Iranian security agents raided the homes of detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, her sister-in-law, Fatemeh Khandan, and civil rights activist Mohammad Reza Farhadpour on August 18, 2018.

iranhumanrights – Shiite mystic Mohammad Ali Taheri, who has been imprisoned in Iran since 2011, expects to be freed on parole “this week,” according to his lawyer.

alarabiya – Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman who has been in prison in Tehran for more than two years on sedition charges, has been released for three days, her husband said Thursday.

iran-hrm – Former political prisoner and labor activist Behnam Ebrahimzadeh was arrested by security forces around Kermanshah (western Iran) and taken to an unknown location on Friday, August 17, 2018.

iran-hrm – According to a close source, on the morning of Saturday, August 18, Ghasem Sho’le Sa’di and Arash Keykhosravi, two prominent lawyers who protest the Caspian Sea agreement with a group of people, were arrested by security forces. One day later the rest of the detainees were released on bail while Qasem Sho’le Sa’di and Arash Keykhosravi were transferred …

iranhumanrights – 60 members of the European Parliament (MEP) called on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to “do all within your power to ensure” the “unconditional release” of human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. A 2012 recipient of the European

theguardian – Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman serving a five-year jail sentence in Iran, has reached “the end of her patience” in the absence of any diplomatic progress to bring her home, according to her husband.

Iran Human Rights – Farhad Meysami, arrested on July 31, was transferred to the quarantine ward of Evin prison. He’s been on a hunger strike since August 1.

iranhumanrights – Former Mayor of Tehran Gholamhossein Karbaschi has been sentenced to one year in prison for publicly criticizing Iran’s involvement in the Syrian civil war, an Appeals Court ruled on August 13, 2018.