Tehran has a long history of arbitrarily imposing new sentences upon political prisoners to prevent their release while applying additional psychological pressure. In other cases, prison authorities decline to ...
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Christian couple in Iran face imprisonment for membership of house church
A Christian couple in Iran look set to be imprisoned for their membership of a house church in the capital city Tehran.
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Akram Neghabi has been searching for her son for more than two decades
Akram Neghabi has been searching for her son for more than two decades, despite threats, state pressure, and numerous futile attempts to get information from Iranian officials.
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Iran’s government exiles female political prisoners
The Iranian government in a new inhuman act is exiling female political prisoners to faraway places. But the question is why? What does the totalitarian government fear? Is imprisoning ...
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Jailed British Iranian in solitary for 5 months
British-Iranian workers’ rights campaigner Mehran Raoof, 64, has been held in solitary confinement for five months in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison after he was secretly recorded talking about politics ...
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Iran prison chief says inmates are cheap labour for private companies
The head of the Iranian Prison Organizations, Mohammad Mehdi Haj Mohammadi, said on March 5 that prisoners were “cheap labour” and could be used by the private sector, according ...
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