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Christian convert at risk of blindness granted 10 days’ leave from prison
A Christian convert in Evin Prison repeatedly denied treatment and medical leave despite suffering...
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Christian converts flee Iran before prison summons
A Christian convert summoned to begin a five-year prison sentence for “promoting deviant beliefs...
Aida Najaflou
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Charge:
Propaganda (Article 500), gathering and collusion, insulting the Supreme Leader -
Sentence:
17 years in prison -
Urgent Concern:
Denied medical care; rheumatoid arthritis and spinal injury risk
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Ghazal Marzban
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Charge:
“Propaganda against the state” + “gathering and collusion against national security” -
Sentence:
9 Years 8 Months -
Held At:
Evin Prison
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‘When I was 13, my older brother was murdered on his way back from work’
An extract from a recent BBC recording from British-Iranian bishop Guli Francis-Dehqani, daughter of the first Persian bishop of Iran and sister of a martyr of the Iranian Church.
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Christians under Ali Khamenei: four decades of systematic religious repression in Iran
For nearly four decades, the human rights record of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei,...
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Iranians in chains: sounds from hell and of resistance
A doorbell. The faulty fan of a car. Banging on a metal door. Screaming and crying. A hymn. A bird singing at dawn. What could these sounds possibly have in common? They are all part of the acoustic world of imprisonment: sounds that have remained in the memories of people who experienced arrest, detention and torture in Iran, sometimes continuing to affect their everyday lives years after their release.
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