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Hundreds have since been sentenced to prison terms and flogging and several to the death penalty following grossly unfair trials which were presided over by biased judges behind closed doors
Source — Amnesty international
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Women
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Health
Material conditions
Iran
The situation of women in Ahvaz Sepidar prison is extremely critical. Endless torture and harassment, along with the Coronavirus outbreak, coupled with continuous water and electricity cuts, and the lack of minimum cooling equipment, have made the situation excruciating for female prisoners, especially…
Source — NCRI
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Middle East
Protest
Torture
Iran
Ahwazi detainees’ families protested outside the infamous Shaiban Prison in the regional capital, Ahwaz, on Saturday May 9, demanding access to their loved ones’ and information on their condition and wellbeing. During their protests, the desperately worried families angrily mocked the regime’s claims…
Source — Dur Untash Studies Centre
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Coronavirus
Middle East
Health
Iran
Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili told reporters the inmates were allowed out of prison after testing negative for Covid-19 and posting bail.
“Security prisoners” sentenced to more than five years will not be let out.
The jailed British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe may be…
Source — BBC
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Iran: a child of the gallows
Testimonial
Middle East
Death penalty
Iran
Homan was born in prison. Both his parents were executed. He then spent three years in prison. This is his story.
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Middle East
Torture
Iran
Sepideh Qoliyan is currently serving an 18.6-year prison sentence in Iran’s Gharchak Prison for women after being arrested at workers’ rights protests in the city of Shush, Khuzestan Province, and publicly stating that she and fellow detainees had been tortured in the custody of the Intelligence Ministry.
Source — Center For Human Rights
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Women
Middle East
Material conditions
Torture
Iran
Two hundred inmates in Ward 5 of Gharchak Prison for women in the Iranian city of Varamin have sent an open letter to the head of the State Prisons Organization in Tehran Province protesting the prison’s inhumane living conditions.
Source — Iran Human Rights
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Iran
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Ouest France
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Middle East
Iran
Trio face lengthy terms for opposing the ruling system amid accusations of ‘propaganda’.
Source — The Guardian
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Iran
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
Source — Huffington Post
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Iran
Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, has pardoned or commuted prison terms of 1,049 convicts found guilty by various Iranian courts.
The pardon was granted at the request of the country’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr,…
Source — Iran Front Page News
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Middle East
Iran
Iran’s Judiciary spokesman, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’I, says nearly 40,000 prisoners in Iran have been granted amnesty in a one-year period.
Source — Iran Front Page News
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Iran
A Parliamentary committee in Iran has blocked an attempt by security agencies to delay for a year a parliamentary vote on an amendment that could drastically reduce death penalty sentences for drug-related crimes.
“Unfortunately, some security and government agencies wrote a letter requesting that the…
Source — Payvand
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Middle East
Overcrowding
Iran
Iran’s penitentiary chief refers to a 333 percentage increase in prisoner figures between 1985 and 2017. Accordingto Tasnim agency, Asghar Jahangiri said on Monday that Iran holds the second place for prison population among Islamic countries and 6th among Asian countries. Saying that Iran’s world ranking…
Source — Iran Focus
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Women
Middle East
Material conditions
Suicide
Iran
Around 200 female prisoners detained in the notorious Qarchak Prison near Tehran detailed the horrid conditions of the prison in a letter to Tehran’s Director-General of Prisons.
Source — Iran News Wire
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Middle East
Death penalty
Iran
The execution spree of the Iranian authorities continues with ten executions carried out on Wednesday July 20 at Rajai Shahr Prison.
About 38 executions have been reported in Iran in the past week.
Source — Death Penalty News
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