Human rights organizations have been sounding the alarm over the high rate of executions in Iran. On Saturday, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada al-Nashif is set ...
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Evin Prison – Involved In
An Execution Binge in Iran
The Islamic Republic authorities in Iran are going on an execution binge, using the spiraling instability and conflicts in the Middle East — in which they are complicit — ...
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How a U of C Professor Wound Up a Prisoner of Iran
Abbas Alizadeh stepped off the plane in Tehran exhausted and a bit anxious. He had been traveling for 19 hours, flying first from O’Hare to Doha, Qatar, then on ...
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Iranian Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Protest to Political Executions
Following the execution of Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimi, two political prisoners, 61 political and ideological prisoners in the women’s ward of Evin Prison announced on Tuesday, January 21 ...
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Iran extends Nobel Prize winner’s prison sentence
The imprisoned Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced to an additional 15 months in prison, Mohammadi’s family said in a written statement sent to CNN ...
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Iranian Pop Singer Sentenced To Prison and Lashes
Mehdi Yarrahi, a prominent Iranian pop music composer and singer, has been handed a verdict of two years and eight months of imprisonment along with 74 lashes. The sentencing ...
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