Political Prisoners

Iranian political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared refused to appear in Evin [Prison] Courthouse last week after she was verbally summoned to be arraigned on new ...

The Iranian regime does not only give its opponents a hard time on the streets; it is also killing them inside Iran’s jails.

Two political prisoners, Ebrahim Khalil Sediq Hamedani and his son, Salar Sediq Hamedani, have started a hunger strike in the Central Prison of Urmia since ...

In a letter sent out from Qarchak Prison in Varamin, Golrokh Iraee revealed that the Iranian regime has been greater pressure on political prisoners by ...

Political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian was taken to the Qarchak Prison of Varamin on Saturday, May 2, 2020. She is reportedly being held in the Quarantine ...

A prominent dissident jailed in Iran attempted suicide in prison to protest the situation of political prisoners and possibly the harassment of his family by ...

Kurdish political prisoner Esmail Moridi, who is being held in Iran’s Dizel Abad Prison, has sewn his lips shut and gone on hunger strike to ...

Iranian political prisoner Soheil Arabi was moved back to the Greater Tehran Penitentiary (Fashafuyeh Prison) on Sunday after he spent six days under interrogation at ...

Sangar, who finished serving an 18-year prison sentence in 2018, but was not released from prison, was informed of his new sentence on Saturday by ...