Severe Beating and Transfer of Kurdish Prisoner Mostafa Salimi to Solitary Cell
(8 March 2012) -- The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has received reports that on Monday, March 5, Mostafa Salimi—a Kurdish political prisoner sentenced
View ArticleChristians in Isfahan face increasing pressure and arrests
(16 March 2012) -- According to reports received in recent weeks by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC), security agents from the Isfahan intelligence
View ArticleKurdish political prisoner Habibollah Golparipour transferred to undisclosed...
(16 March 2012) – The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has received reports that yesterday Habibollah Golparipour—a Kurdish political prisoner on death row—was transferred
View ArticleSpecial Report: Ghader Mohammadzadeh and Mohammad Amin Abdollahi
(5 April 2012) – As part of its on-going investigation into the condition of Kurdish political prisoners in Iran, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
View ArticleKurdish Iranian Death Row Prisoner Habibollah Golparipour Transferred to...
(13 April 2012) – As part of its ongoing investigation of human rights abuses against Kurdish activists in Iran, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
View ArticleTransfer of a Kurdish political prisoner in a dire health condition to an...
(7 May 2012) – The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has received reports from former prisoners at Rajaee Shahr prison in Karaj, Iran that
View ArticleThe case of Kurdish Iranian death row prisoner Behruz Alakhani
(21 May 2012) -- The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has learned from an informed source close to the case of Kurdish Iranian death
View ArticleUpdate on the Condition of Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand in Evin Prison
(24 May 2012) – After weeks of receiving reports about the hunger strike taken by Kurdish political prisoner Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand, who is currently incarcerated
View ArticleTen inmates at Orumiyeh prison convicted on drug related offenses at risk of...
(30 May 2012) – According to a local source in touch with the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC), ten prisoners on death row for
View ArticleArrests of two members of the Immanuel Presbyterian church in Tehran
(11 June 2012) Update: Following the publication of this report on Friday, June 8 it has since been confirmed that Forough Dashtiani has been temporarily released from
View ArticleDeath of ill political prisoner in Rajaee Shahr prison
(8 June 2012) – Sources close to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) have provided details about the death of Kurdish political prisoner Mehdi
View ArticleHigh bail set as condition for temporary release of imprisoned Christian...
(3 July 2012) -- According to reports the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has received from sources close to imprisoned Christian convert, Mehrdad Sajjadi,
View ArticleFive more Ahwazi Arabs sentenced to death by the Islamic Republic of Iran
(10 July 2012) -- According to local sources, five Ahwazi Arab activists, Hashem Shabani, Mohammadali Omouri, Hadi Rashedi, Seyyed Jaber Alboshoka and Seyyed Mokhtar Alboshoka
View ArticleResumption of torture of Ahwazi Arab political prisoners from Khalafabad...
(17 August 2012) -- The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has learned through informed sources in Ahwaz that five ethnic Arab political prisoners in
View ArticleArrest of Saeed Shirzad, a children’s rights activist, while aiding...
(23 August 2012) – According to reports obtained by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC), Saeed Shirzad, an ethnic Kurd and children’s rights
View ArticleAhwazi Arab political activist Jamil Sowaidi reportedly tortured to death in...
Reports indicate Ahwazi Arab political activist Jamil Sowaidi tortured to death in custody; if confirmed, Sowaidi’s death adds to body count of those tortured to death in custody in recent weeks,...
View ArticleInfant Sons of Two Bahá'í Mothers Imprisoned in Semnan Facing Medical...
(3 January 2013) – The infants of two Bahá'í mothers imprisoned in Semnan in Iran have been transferred to hospital due to serious health issues.
View ArticleDeath Sentences for Five Ahwazi Arabs Upheld by Iran’s Supreme Court
(11 January 2013) – Branch 32 of the Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) has upheld the death sentences of five Ahwazi
View ArticleOngoing Wave of Arrests in Khuzestan, Families Unaware of Whereabouts of...
(April 11, 2013) – The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) has received reports from local human rights activists which indicate that an estimated 188
View ArticleA plea for Kaveh Taheri, an imprisoned blogger in Iran
(May 2, 2013) – According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) ranks second globally in the number of
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