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Urgent Action update: Women's rights activist in critical health in Iran
The health of Iranian women’s rights activist, Atena Daemi, has sharply deteriorated. After 46 days on hunger strike, she is critically ill and her body has started rejecting water.
Urgent action outcomes 24 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Health fears for jailed Iranian teacher unionist
The health of jailed trade unionist Esmail Abdi has deteriorated following a hunger strike he started on 30 April in protest at the criminalization of peaceful trade unionists.
Urgent action outcomes 17 May 2017 -
Podcast: Atena Farghadani, imprisoned for her art in Iran - voiced by Nazanin BoniadiImprisoned for drawing a satirical cartoon, prosecuted for shaking her lawyer's hand - Atena Farghadani has paid a high price for making art and speaking her mind in Iran, where dissent is met with heavy punishment. Atena's words are voiced by actress…
11 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Jailed Iranian human rights defender in poor health
Following 31 days of hunger strike in Tehran's Evin prison, Iranian human rights defender Atena Daemi is in poor health, and requires immediate hospitalization.
Urgent action outcomes 10 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian arrested at 15 risks imminent execution
Today is Ali Mohammed Mostafa’s 55th birthday, a father of three who has been forcibly disappeared for nearly four years, and his family still has no information about his fate or whereabouts.
Urgent action outcomes 08 May 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi released
Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi was released from Tehran’s Evin prison on 19 April 2017. He had been imprisoned since 23 November 2016. Keywan Karimi was a prisoner of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action: Dutch-Iranian prisoner denied heart surgery in Iran
Dutch-Iranian national Sabri Hassanpour, who has been detained in Tehran’s Evin prison since his arrest on 19 April 2016, is being denied urgently needed open heart surgery by the Iranian authorities.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action: Man arrested at 15 faces imminent execution in Iran
Peyman Barandah, who was 15 years old at the time of his arrest, is due to be executed on 10 May in Shiraz’s Adel Abad prison, Fars Province, Iran. He was sentenced to death after a grossly unfair trial which violated principles of juvenile justice.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian human rights defender on hunger strike
Iranian human rights defender Atena Daemi has been on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin prison since 8 April. She is protesting the suspended prison sentences imposed on two of her sisters, Hanieh and Ensieh, for “insulting public officers on duty”.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Apr 2017 -
Iran should halt 'outrageous' execution of two juvenile offendersPress release 18 Apr 2017
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Urgent Action: Imprisoned Iranian journalist on hunger strikeIranian journalist Hengameh Shahidi is in a critical condition in Tehran’s Evin prison. She has been on hunger strike for 29 days in protest at her arrest on 9 March. She has a heart condition and is refusing her medication. She is being held in solitary…
Urgent action outcomes 10 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Doctor on hunger strike after dismissal of lawyer in IranIranian academic Dr Ahmadreza Djalali has resumed his hunger strike and has said he has stopped taking liquids as well as food.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender being tortured in Evin, Iran
Iranian prisoner of conscience and human rights defender Arash Sadeghi is being subjected to torture by Revolutionary Guard officials who are blocking his access to urgent medical care.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Iranian woman in Canada risks torture if deported
Azizi Mirmahaleh, a 60-year old woman from Iran, is currently in a detention centre in Laval, Québec, awaiting her scheduled deportation on 28 February.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update correction: UK-Iranian charity worker needs medical care in Iran
British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is suffering with severe arm, neck and back pain and needs urgent hospitalization.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: UK-Iranian charity worker needs medical care in Iran
British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is suffering with severe arm, neck and back pain and needs urgent hospitalization.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Five questions the UK government must answer regarding arms to Saudi ArabiaAs we wait for the outcome of the legal challenge to the UK government's continuing arms sales to Saudi Arabia, here are five questions the UK government must answer. They owe it to us, and more so, to the people of Yemen.
Blog post 20 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Man arrested at 17 faces imminent execution in Iran
The execution of Hamid Ahmadi, an Iranian man arrested when he was just 17 years old, has been rescheduled for 18 February. He continues to be held in solitary confinement in Lakan prison in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, further exacerbating his…
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Nazanin: A letter to my daughterNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian charity worker, was at the airport returning to the UK when she was detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and put in an Iranian prison. This is a translated version a letter Nazanin wrote to her daughter…
Blog post 09 Feb 2017
