October 17, 2021 marks 2000 days since Ahmadreza Djalali, a medical doctor, dual citizen of Sweden in Iran, was imprisoned in Tehran. He has been tortured, kept in solitary confinement, and brought to near-death existence. His wife and two children have been severely impacted by that. Djalali worked at the Karolinska Medical University in Stockholm, held research positions in Italy and Belgium, ... Continue Reading>>
Conservation Biologist of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation Contracted COVID in Iranian Prison
Niloufar Bayani is a widely respected environmental scientist affiliated with the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation. She received a Master’s in Conservation Biology from Columbia University in 2012, and then worked for the UN Environment Program (UNEP) in Geneva before joining the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation in 2017. She and eight colleagues were arrested in January 2018 and accused ... Continue Reading>>
Social Anthropolgist With Dual Citizenship Sentenced in Iran on Ambiguous Charges
Prompted by Reports of the Imminent Execution of a Medical Scholar, Ahmadreza Djalali, 153 Nobel Laureates Appeal to the Supreme Leader of Iran, Urging Him to Intercede on Djalali’s Behalf.
Anthropologist, Fariba Adelkhah, Temporarily Released from Iranian Prison
On vague, seemingly politically motivated charges, 61-year-old Iranian anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah was sentenced to six years in prison in May 2020. Adelkhah is an expert on Iran and Shi’ite Islam based in France for the past 40 years, and currently the Director of Research at the Center for International Studies at Sciences Po University. On October 3, 2020, she was released to her family in ... Continue Reading>>
Narges Mohammadi, Physicist and Human Rights Defender, imprisoned in Iran Released with Sentence Commuted.
Narges Mohammadi, a physicist and a prominent human rights defender who had been incarcerated in Iranian prisons since May 2015, was released on October 7 when her 16-year sentence was commuted due to health concerns. Her conviction and sentence in May 2016 were based exclusively on her peaceful advocacy for women’s rights and the abolition of the death penalty. She initially had been denied ... Continue Reading>>
Iranian female lawyer, a famous defender of free speech and human rights, in grave condition
Iranian female lawyer, a famous defender of free speech and human rights, in grave condition by Eugene Chudnovsky ... Continue Reading>>
Iran Freezes Bank Account of Imprisoned Human Rights Attorney
Kylie Moore-Gilbert, British/Australian Academic Transferred from Evin Prison In Iran to Far More Severe Facility in Remote Location
British-Australian Academic Jailed in Iran Is Moved to Remote Prison Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who has denied charges of espionage, is now in a facility where many have been infected with the coronavirus, rights activists say. New York Times, by Ellen Peltier, July 28, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/world/europe/british-australian-academic-jail-iran-qarchak.html Academics have provided ... Continue Reading>>
2018 APS Andrei Sakharov Prize Winner Has Tested Positive for the COVID Virus While Incarcerated in an Iranian Prison
Narges Mohammedi, a physicist and a prominent human rights defender who has been confined in Iranian prisons since May 2015, serving a 16-year sentence, requested temporary release or sentence remission due to the abundance of inmates with Covid-19 in the prison. She was denied release in March, when over 100,000 detainees were granted temporary release. In July, she and several of her cellmates ... Continue Reading>>