Political prisoners

Conservationist Sam Rajabi has contracted the COVID-19 while in detention in Evin Prison. Mr. Rajabi has been transferred to the...

Teachers' rights activist Esmail Abdi was arrested on April 20, 2020, when he referred to the Evin Prison’s Courthouse to...

Political prisoner Soheil Arabi was returned to the Greater Tehran Penitentiary from the IRGC’s detention center. In response to the...

Kurdish political prisoner Esmail Moridi has sewn his lips closed in protest being denied temporary prison leave amid the Covid-19...

Labor activist Shapour Ehsani Rad has been summoned to Branch 1 of Evin Prison’s Implementation of Verdicts to serve his...

Labor rights activist Nahid Khodajou was summoned to Tehran's Evin Prison, to serve her sentence amid the coronavirus crisis, the...

Political prisoner Saeed Sangar was informed on Saturday, April 11, 2020, that he had received a new 15-year sentence after...

Elderly political prisoner Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi remains incarcerated in Raja'i Shahr Prison of Karaj despite Judiciary's New Year directive to...

The family of Mohammad Hossein Sepehri, a political activist held at Vakil Abad Prison in the city of Mashhad has...

Political prisoner Soheil Arabi sent a letter out of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary on Saturday, April 4, 2020, announcing that...