Inmates at the Urmia Prison torched their blankets and set fire to the “secure section” on May 12, to protest over fears of contracting the coronavirus.
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Iran Prison Organization confirms COVID-19 contagion in prison
The Prisons, Security, and Corrective Measures Organization in a southwestern Iranian province confirmed a COVID-19 contagion in the province’s prisons.
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Amid coronavirus outbreak political prisoners should be granted furlough
Relatives of prisoners of conscience who were imprisoned in Iran after publicly calling on the supreme leader to resign have called on Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi to allow their ...
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Political prisoner sews lips shut to protest his sentence for peaceful online activities
Twenty-seven-year-old political prisoner Ali Bazazordeh has sewed his lips shut and started a hunger strike in Evin Prison...
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Family seeks return of Navy veteran detained in Iran
A U.S. Navy veteran has been held in an Iranian prison since July after visiting his girlfriend there, according to his family...
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