Unveiling Injustice in Iran: The 5-Year Sentence for Political Prisoner Mir Yousef Younesi
Mir Yousef Younesi, a political prisoner with a history of enduring torment and incarceration spanning the Shah’s era and the Khomeini regime, has been sentenced to five years of imprisonment by the Revolutionary Court of Tehran.
Iran’s Regime Escalates Repression: Urgent Action Needed for Political Prisoner Ali Moezi and Other PMOI Prisoners
The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran reported on December 23 that the oppressive mullahs’ regime has intensified pressure on political prisoner Ali Moezi in Evin prison’s 4th ward. His medical treatment is obstructed, and access to the hospital is denied.
Alarming Surge of Political Executions in Iran
Under the fog of the war in Gaza, the regime of Iran has been engaged in a widespread campaign of suppression at home. The regime has carried out more than 100 death sentences in the past month and is taking advantage of the situation to execute dissidents lingering in Iran’s prisons.
Iranian Political Prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared Supports Popular Protests: “Tomorrow Is Ours”
It is reported that Iranian political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared, imprisoned in Semnan Prison, in a message titled “Tomorrow is ours,” expressed her support and that of her cellmates in Semnan Prison for the nationwide protests in Iran that began last week over rising prices of essential goods.
Iran: Political Prisoner Leila Hosseinzadeh Suffering Inhumane Conditions in Prison
Political Prisoner and student activist Leila Hosseinzadeh has been held in inhumane conditions since her arrest on December 7, 2021. Security forces arrested Hosseinzadeh and nine friends at gunpoint in Shiraz. She was held incommunicado in an intelligence department detention center and subjected to torture. Her family did not have any news about her or […]
Iran: Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Urmia Central Prison
Forty-seven political prisoners in Urmia Central Prison in northwest Iran went on hunger strike after being transferred to a high-security ward. The high-security ward lacks basic facilities and is very small. It has been designed to torture and harass political prisoners. The warden seeks to isolate the transferred inmates from other political prisoners. Urmia Central […]
Iran: 14 Female Political Prisoners Protest Forcible Exile of Maryam Akbari Monfared
Fourteen political prisoners in the women’s ward of Evin Prison wrote an open letter protesting the forcible exile of their former cellmate, Maryam Akbari, to Semnan Prison. Ms. Akbari Monfared, who is serving the twelfth year of her sentence, forcefully exiled from Evin Prison to Semnan Prison on Tuesday, March 9, 2021. The full text […]
MEPs: Statement on Human Rights in Iran
Urgent Case of Political Prisoner Saeid Sangar
Twenty-four members of the European Parliament cosigned a statement on the initiative of the European Parliament’s Friends of a Free Iran (FoFI) about the alarming human rights situation in Iran, following a recent surge of executions and mass arrests across the country since December 2020. The following is the Press release and the full statement […]
Iran: After two weeks of transfer to solitary confinement in Gohardasht Prison, there is no news of Soheil Arabi
Reports indicate that the family of political prisoner Soheil Arabi is worried about his fate. Two weeks after transferring this political prisoner to solitary confinement in Gohardasht Prison, his family has no information about his condition. Mr. Soheil Arabi held in solitary confinement since his transfer to Gohardasht Prison on September 18, 2020. Moreover, he […]
Forced Relocation of Political Prisoners and Detainees of the November 2019 Iran Protests in the Great Tehran Prison (Fashafuyeh)
Forced transfer of political prisoners and detainees of the November 2019 Iran protests in Great Tehran Penitentiary(Prison Fashafuyeh)with the intervention of the Prison Guard On Wednesday, September 30, 2020, November 2019 Iran protests detainees forcibly relocated to Hall 2 of the 5th Brigade of the Greater Tehran Prison. According to reports, the prison authorities in […]