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January 4, 2021

Irán: detengan la ejecución de un joven arrestado a los 16 años y obligado a “confesar” bajo tortura

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January 4, 2021

Irán: la ejecución del periodista Rouhollah Zam, un “golpe mortal” a la libertad de expresión

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December 14, 2020

Irán: seis hombres en peligro inminente de que les amputen los dedos tras juicios injustos y tortura

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December 2, 2020

Irán: deben detener la ejecución inminente del académico irano-sueco Ahmadreza Djalali

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September 18, 2020

Iran: detainees flogged, sexually abused and given electric shocks in gruesome post-protest crackdown

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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

September 18, 2020

Iran: situation of women

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Women Middle East Health Material conditions Iran

Torture, crackdown with water and electricity cuts in scorching heat along with coronavirus outbreak

July 22, 2020

Iran: Regime seeks pressure on dissidents, minorities through executions

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The executions were described by Amnesty International as “an alarming escalation in use of the death penalty against protesters, dissidents and members of minority groups in Iran.”

May 14, 2020

Iran: Ahwazi detainees’ families stage protests at Shaiban Prison against inhuman treatment

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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 cla…

March 18, 2020

Iran: temporarily frees 54,000 prisoners to combat Coronavirus spread

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Iran has temporarily released more than 54,000 prisoners in an effort to combat the spread of the new coronavirus disease in crowded jails.

October 10, 2019

Iran: a child of the gallows

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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.

October 7, 2019

Iran: Sepideh Qoliyan said she was tortured, now she’s serving an 18-year prison sentence

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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 Mi…

August 30, 2019

Iran: prisoners in Iran’s Gharchak prison for women protest inhumane living conditions

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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.

August 25, 2019

Iran: family of murdered iranian prisoner demands prison officials be put on trial

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The murder prompted protests and calls on social media for judiciary reform, citing the department’s incompetence.

March 25, 2019

Iran: human rights lawyer sentenced to 38 years in prison, her family says

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Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes, according to her family.

March 11, 2019

Iran says it has freed 51,000 prisoners

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Middle East Iran

An official said 51,000 Iranian prisoners have so far been released under the recent clemency granted by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution’s victory.

December 16, 2018

Iran: mort en prison d’un blogueur en grève de la faim

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August 27, 2018

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe returns to Iran's Evin prison after three-day release

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Middle East Iran

British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has returned to Iran’s Evin prison after a three-day release period that ended Sunday. Her husband Richard Ratcliffe had been hopeful this would mark the beginning of the end of her ordeal.

August 5, 2017

Ce que j’ai vu dans les prisons iraniennes

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Middle East Iran

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July 23, 2017

Over 2,300 Iranian children live in prison

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Middle East Iran

Over 2,300 children live in prison in Iran with their mothers, a member of parliament said July 23. Mohammad Javad Fathi said that the high statistics of prisoned women in Iran is a sensitive and serious issue.

June 25, 2017

Iran: leader pardons 1 049 prisoners on Eid al-Fitr

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Middle East 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-Fit…

June 21, 2017

Iran: 40,000 inmates granted amnesty in one year

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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.

June 15, 2017

Iran: parliamentary committee blocks security agencies' attempts to significantly delay death penalty amendment

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Middle East 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…

May 25, 2017

Iran: 333% increase of prison populace in 30 years

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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…

April 24, 2017

Iran abolishes death penalty for drug trafficking

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Iran’s Parliament has abolished the death penalty for dealers, distributors and traffickers of narcotic drugs, replacing this punishment with lifelong imprisonment.