A young civil activist who has been held at Evin Prison since October 2014 has been sentenced to seven years in prison at her interrogator’s urging, a source close to the case told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, for her Facebook postings and her participation in peaceful gatherings. Continue reading
May 20
Security Forces Prevented “National Front” from Holding Annual Meeting
The security forces made phone calls and threatened to arrest the members of the National Front, prevented the meeting of their Central Council to take place. Continue reading
May 20
A Report about the Status of Mohammad Amin Abdullahi, Exiled Political Prisoner
Mohammad Amin Abdullahi, political prisoner and resident of Boukan, has been deprived from the right of family visit after being exiled to Tabas prison.
May 17
Noise Waves Increased Enormously in Rajai Shahr Prison
Increasing the number of jamming devices in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj and waves’ intensification, has caused the prisoners headaches and dizziness, which has led to their protest.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), these devices which are used to disrupt prisoners’ communications, recently, have increased significantly in Rajai Shahr prison, especially in the political prisoners’ ward and have created new problems for prisoners.
In this regard, on Sunday 10th May, political prisoners in Rajai Shahr prison in a response to this action, protested.
According to Human Rights Activists in Iran, in recent years there have been many objections to the noise waves used by government to interfere the satellite network, and many researches have been done and professional comments have been given regarding this phenomenon and its correlation with the increase in cancer in Iran and health officials have several times confessed this issue.
May 17
Omid Alishenas and Aso Rostami Refused to Attend the Court Session
Omid Alishenas and Aso Rostami, two political prisoners at Evin prison, were not sent to the court, as they refused to wear prison clothes.
May 17
Zia Nabavi Sent to Furlough
Zia Nabavi, student activist, was sent to a four-day leave from prison.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Zia Nabavi, starred student and spokesman for the Council to Defending the Right to Education, in the morning of Monday, 11th May, went on leave for four days from Semnan prison.
This student activist was arrested in the evening of 15th June 2009, along with a number of his friends and had been sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and 74 lashes, by the Islamic Revolutionary Court Branch 26, presided by Judge Pir Abassi. This sentence was changed to 10 years imprisonment in exile by the appeals court.
He was sent to exile in Karoon prison on October 2010 and recently was transferred to Semnan Prison.
May 06
“Why Did I Go to Prison for Four Years, Mr. Zarif?”
Formerly Imprisoned Journalists Challenge Iran Foreign Minister’s Remarks to Charlie Rose
May 06
JOURNALIST AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST NARGES MOHAMMADI ARRESTED
Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the arrest of Narges Mohammadi, a journalist who works closely with Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi and acts as spokesperson of the Centre for Human Rights Defenders, an organisation founded by Ebadi that was arbitrarily banned in Iran in 2006.
May 06
Iran : Continued harassment of trade-unionists ahead of International Labour Day
Paris-Geneva, April 30, 2015 – On the eve of the International Labour Day 2015, the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (FIDH-OMCT) and the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) deplore the ongoing harassment of trade-unionists in Iran.
