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Five prisoners from Rajai Shahr and Ghazal Hesar Prisons were executed. The charge of the five prisoners were "murderous for the revenge" (execution). On the morning of Wednesday, June 26th, 2019, five prisoners were executed...

Anisha Asadullahi, a detained teacher residing in Tehran, has been denied visitation rights and the rights to call her family. According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, on June 27th,...

On Wednesday, June 26th, 2019, the Ahwaz Information Office confirmed the death of Benyamin Alboghbiesh at the Detention Center of the Ahvaz Information Office during a call to Alboghbiesh ’s family. Benyamin Alboghbiesh, 26, was...

Mohammad Najafi, a lawyer and a human rights activist, was sentenced to two years in prison by Branch 8 of the Central Appeals Court. According to Voice of America, on Sunday June 23rd, 2019, Mohammad...

At least 40 asylum seekers were killed and injured in an accident in Edirne, one of the Turkish border towns. According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, on Wednesday, June...

Rahmatullah Pakzad, a prisoner detained in Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj who was transferred to treatment centers for medical treatment, underwent surgery. The Kurdish conscience-political prisoner has been sentenced to 5 years in prison...

During the past few days, three citizens were arrested in Oshnavieh by the Revolutionary Guards’ Intelligence Forces. According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, on June 25th, and 26th, 2019,...

Branch 36 of the Tehran Court of Appeals, headed by Judge Sayed Ahmad Zarger, sentenced Leila Hosseinzadeh, anthropology student at Tehran University, to 30 months of imprisonment. The activist was convicted by Branch 26...

Amir Sattari Raouf, a political prisoner who has been on a hunger strike, changed his protest from a dry hunger strike to a wet hunger strike per family’s request on Sunday night, the seveth...

During the past few days, at least 6 prisoners were executed on charges of "murder" and "rape" in the Central Prisons of Ahwaz, Bandar Abbas, and Rajai Shahr of Karaj. On Saturday, June 15th, 2019,...

In a letter, the Sunni prisoners of conscience under political imprisonment in Saloon 21 of Rajaishahr Prison in Karaj announced their protest against the behaviors of the prison authorities, including the continued mistreatment, pressure,...

Mehdi Fartousi, an imprisoned student in Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad who was arrested during protests in January 2018 and sentenced to prison time, was released from prison using probation law According to the Campaign for...

The trial for the case of Mojtaba Parvin, an activist from Azerbaijan, on charges of "participating in an illegal gathering", was held in the Criminal Court Two of Ardebil. According to the Campaign for the...

By direct firing of the Revolutionary Guard Border Forces, Mohammad Husseinzad was shot and killed in the border area of Piranshahr. According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, on Thursday,...

Masoud Kanaani, known as Khadem Al-Nakhil, was arrested yesterday by security forces in Ahvaz and moved to an unknown location. According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, on Monday morning,...

Alireza Shirimohammad Ali, a political prisoner detained in Tehran's Grand Prison (Fashafoyeh) who was arrested by security forces in July last year, was shot dead by two criminal prisoners that are in jail for...

Abdulhamid Ariamanesh (Ghalandarzehi), a Baluchi citizen and a religious activist residing in Semnan province that was arrested in May 2019, was released from the Revolutionary Guards Intelligence Detention Center. According to a report published on...

Sepideh Gholiyan, a detained civil activist who was transferred from the women's ward of the Evin Prison to the Gharchak Prison of Varamin, on June 3rd, 2019, in a letter from the prison, detailing...

Omid Asadi, a civil and labor activist, was summoned to the fourth branch of the appeals court of Kurdistan province by a letter. Previously, this citizen was convicted by a Revolutionary Court in two...

Milad Bahri, a photographer and journalist from Shadegan city who was detained in May, was transferred to Shiban Prison after 20 days of arrest and interrogation at Shadegan and Ahvaz detention centers. On Wednesday, May...