Nine months after her arrest, the lawyer and prisoner of conscience Negar Haeri was released on bail of about US$580,000 on February 25, 2015. She spent her entire time in prison since her May 2014 arrest on “temporary detention orders. During “temporary detention” in Iran, prisoners may be held without access to a lawyer […]
Tag: Prisoner of Conscience
Prisoner of Conscience’s Life at Risk at Evin Prison
Authorities Refuse Treatment for Critical Illnesses Mohammad Hassan Yousef Pourseifi, a prisoner of conscience too sick to complete his prison sentence, remains inside Evin Prison as authorities refuse to transfer him to a hospital to seek treatment for heart disease, rheumatism, and to maintain his eyesight, a source told the International Campaign for Human […]
Amnesty International: prisoner of conscience faces death threats
Prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri, who has spent over three years in solitary confinement in Section 2A of Evin Prison in Iran’s capital, Tehran, has been threatened with death by interrogators. He is serving a five-year prison sentence on a charge of “insulting Islamic sanctities”, in relation to his spiritual beliefs and […]
Further information: Prisoner of conscience needs medical care
On 4 November Iranian prisoner of conscience and blogger, Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, was taken to a hospital outside prison but transferred back to Tehran’s Evin Prison after three hours. He remains in critical condition and in urgent need of specialized medical care which he cannot receive in prison. On 4 November Hossein Ronaghi Maleki […]
Prisoner of Conscience Said To Be Alive, Though No One Has Seen Him In Prison
Following rumors that prisoner of conscience Arash Sadeghi had died in prison, his former lawyer told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he is alive, though the lawyer refused to answer questions about whether Sadeghi had been beaten in prison. Sadeghi’s former cellmate told the Campaign no prisoners have seen him, […]