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Seven prisoners were executed today, October 25, 2017 in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran. Most of the victims were found guilty of murder. The names of the executed have not yet been published. Another prisoner was publicly…

An Iranian-born Afghan prisoner, who was detained as a child, was tortured and sentenced to 10 years of prison based on forced confessions. The prisoner wrote a letter detailing his story. This letter reads in part: "I am Amir Nourzehi, a…

Despite a ruling against the initial ruling for political prisoner Emadodin Mullazehi by the Sistan and Baluchistan Provincial Court of Appeals, ordering his release, the interrogators of the Ministry of Intelligence refuse to release this…

A 24-year-old Kurd porter was shot dead in Sardasht, according to the state-run ILNA news agency on October 23, 2017. "On the evening of October 21, on the border area of the canal near the village of Bityush, Sardasht, a 24-year-old…

According to a shocking report, in the first 9 months of the Persian year, 181,133 girls under the age of 19 got married, which accounts for 34 percent of the marriages (in Iran), according to the state-run Iran Online website on October…

Security agents arrested a Christian convert in Dezful after summoning him to the Ministry of Intelligence. Abdul Ali Pourmand, 38, known as Elias, who was a deacon at a home church in this town called the “Payame Aramesh Church”, was…

At midnight on Saturday, October 21, government forces in Sardasht opened fire on a group of Kurdish tradesman, which led to the death of one of them. He has been identified as Poshtivan Moein, from Gulan Village. During the first six…

Swedish media have reported that the death sentence for Ahmad Reza Jalali, an Iranian doctor and researcher who lives in Stockholm, has been announced to his lawyer. Mr. Jalali was arrested last year on charges of espionage and was…

Amnesty International, 23 October 2017 Prisoner of conscience Mohammad Nazari, who has been unjustly languishing in prison for over two decades, is critically ill and needs urgent medical care outside prison. He has been on hunger strike…

At least nine Baha'i citizens in Kermanshah were arrested on Wednesday October 18 by security agents. They were all taken to an unknown location. These men and women have been identified as Peiman Ghiami, Ezzatollah Shahidi, Forouzan…