Reza Entesari, a rights activist of Gonabadi Dervishes, has been released from the Evin prison after serving his four-year term jail.The Website of Majzooban Noor went further that the four- year prison has been ended while during this period the aforementioned dervish was transferred two times to the detentions of the Ministry of Information and […]
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Activist’s Mother Decries 14-Year Sentence for Her Daughter’s Peaceful Activities
Atena Daemi, a children’s rights and civil activist, was sentenced to 14 years in prison, receiving the combined maximum penalty for each of her charges, as a result of her peaceful activism. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Daemi’s mother, Massoumeh Nemati, relayed that Daemi had been sentenced […]
Gonabadi Dervish Released from Jail after Completing His Sentence
Gonabadi Dervish and a resident of the southern Iranian city of Bandar-Abbas, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad, was released after completing his sentence.According to Majzooban Noor, Dervish rights activist and one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website, Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad who had been previously sentenced to two years in prison by the Bandar-Abbas Revolutionary Court, was released […]
Maryam Shafipour sentenced to 4 years in prison by appellate court
Former student activist Maryam Shafipour was sentenced to 4 years in prison by a court of appeals. Shafipour was detained on July 27, 2013 after she appeared at Branch 2 of Shahid Moghaddas Court per order of a summons, and was transferred behind bars at Evin prison. She was held in Ward 209 for […]
Appeal court confirmed Masoumeh Dehghan’s imprisonment sentence
The appeal court confirmed the one year in prison, and five years ban from country departure sentence, of Masumeh Dehghan, Abdolfattah Soltani’s wife.According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), one year in prison and five years country departing interdiction sentence of Masumeh Dehghan, the retired teacher and the wife of […]
Iranian-American Christian Convert’s 8-Year Sentence Upheld
Iranian-American Christian convert Saeed Abedini’s eight-year prison sentence has been upheld, and his wife told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that none of the objections they made in court were taken into account. “Iran is keeping Saeed illegally. Saeed’s problem is not political. His problem is in his choice of religion. […]
Student Activist Forcefully Arrested to Serve Prison Sentence
Security forces stormed the home of Ashkan Zahabian, a former Mashhad University student and member of the Daftar Tahkim Vahdat Student Organization General Council, arrested him, and transferred him to Babol’s Mati Kola Prison on May 27, a source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to the source, the security […]
Opposition leader’s son given jail sentence
Mohammad Hossein Karroubi, the son of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, has been sentenced to six months in jail for speaking with foreign media about the alleged torture and death of prisoners in the Kahrizak detention centre in 2009.
Leftist activist Saeed Shirzad handed a one-year suspended sentence and 5 years probation
Leftist activist and children’s rights activist Saeed Shirzad, was arrested when agents from the Ministry of Security raided the volunteer campsite in the earthquake-stricken area of Sarand.
Group condemns sentence for activist’s wife
The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders has condemned the jail sentence handed to Masoomeh Dehghan by Iranian authorities.