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Tag: political prisoners
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Medical Neglect in Evin: Siamak Amini’s Deteriorating Health and Jabar Mustafa’s Death
Siamak Amini’s worsening condition and Jabar Mustafa’s death expose a recurring pattern: prisoners denied timely medical care in Iran’s prisons. The health of Siamak…
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“He Never Stopped Defending Us”: The Suspicious Death of Lawyer Khosro Alikordi
Human rights lawyer Khosro Alikordi dies suddenly after sustained state pressure, prompting prison protests, a nationwide lawyers’ statement, and scrutiny of Iran’s war on…
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A Coordinated Crackdown on Critical Intellectuals in Iran
Iranian security forces raided and detained several critical scholars, targeting a broad progressive intellectual current to shrink cultural space and silence voices linking everyday…
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Tehran Security Authorities Detain Social Justice Researchers and Translators
On November 3, 2025, Iranian security forces detained several prominent researchers, economists, and translators in Tehran over their work on social justice and political…
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Iran’s Political Prisoners Call Somayeh Rashidi’s Death in Qarchak a ‘Systematic Killing’
The death of 42-year-old political prisoner Somayeh Rashidi after denied medical care in Qarchak Prison has triggered outrage from current and former prisoners, who…
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Condemned for Compassion: The Death Sentence of Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri
“My father has been condemned to death,” wrote Zhino Beigzadeh Babamiri, daughter of Kurdish-Iranian political prisoner Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, in a post on X…
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Amnesty International Demands Djalali’s Swift Freedom
Amnesty International has called for the immediate release and annulment of the death sentence of Ahmad Reza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish dual national researcher who…
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Death Sentence: Sharifeh Mohammadi’s Struggle
Sharifeh Mohammadi, an Iranian social and labor activist, was sentenced to death on July 4, 2024, by the first branch of the Revolutionary Court…
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From Classroom to Courtroom: Mohammad Habibi and the Islamic Regime’s War on Teachers
Mohammad Habibi recently announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he appeared in the Shahryar Revolutionary Court. This court appearance was to defend…
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Iranian Activist Faces Imminent Execution for Social Media Posts
Mehrshad Kalini, an Iranian physician, was also arrested by the police of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was protesting against the death penalty…
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Why Does the Former Minister of Intelligence Confess to Kidnapping Opponents and Threaten Iranians Abroad?
In a detailed interview conducted by the Islamic Republic’s official news agency (IRNA), Seyyed Mahmoud Alavi, the former Minister of Intelligence of the Islamic…
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Women of Iran’s Evin Prison Raise the Alarm on Climate Change and the Future of Iran
Saturday, April 1, 2023: An open letter from a group of female political prisoners in Evin Prison has reached Zamaneh in which the authors…