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UPDATE: Hamid Ahmadi's execution has been stayed!Hamid Ahmadi is facing execution on Saturday 18 February for a crime he was charged with as a teenager - after being tortured in to a 'confession'. Tell Iran: don't execute Hamid Ahmadi.
Blog post 09 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Iranian academic could be sentenced to death
Iranian academic specializing in disaster medicine Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, a resident of Sweden detained in Iran since 25 April 2016, has been threatened with the death penalty.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Feb 2017 -
Iran set to hang third juvenile offender in a monthPress release 02 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action update: Man arrested at 17 faces imminent execution in Iran
Hamid Ahmadi, an Iranian man arrested as a juvenile, is at imminent risk of execution. He has been transferred to solitary confinement in Lakan prison in Rasht, northern Iran, in preparation for his execution on 4 February. He was 17 years old when he…
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Jailed filmmaker needs urgent medical care in Iran
Jailed Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi is in urgent need of specialized medical care. After multiple episodes of coughing up blood, doctors at Tehran’s Evin prison have said that he has bronchitis and a lung infection, and needs immediate medical…
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Inhumane prison conditions need attention in Iran
Iranian prisoner of conscience and human rights defender Saeed Shirzad ended his 39-day hunger strike on 14 January after the authorities at Karaj’s Raja’i Shahr Prison made an oral promise to address his grievances about the inhumane treatment of…
Urgent action outcomes 23 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Dissident Iranian cleric in need of medical care
Elderly dissident Iranian cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Nekounam has been on hunger strike for 31 days in protest at his detention and the denial of specialized medical care by the authorities.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Jan 2017 -
Iranian journalist given 40 lashes for 'inaccurate reporting'Press release 18 Jan 2017
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Vigil for jailed British woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - London, Monday 16 January (4pm)Press release 15 Jan 2017
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Iran: 12 prisoners face execution tomorrow for drugs offencesPress release 13 Jan 2017
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Iran: Former child bride executed after stillbirthZeinab was 15 when she left her family to marry Hossein. Soon after the wedding, Hossein started beating her. She asked for a divorce, but he refused. She told police, but they ignored her. After an unfair trial, Zeinab was executed on 2 October 2018.
11 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Hunger-striking activist in poor health in Evin, Iran
Iranian prisoner of conscience Ali Shariati is in poor health in Evin Prison, 67 days into an ongoing hunger strike against his imprisonment.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Jan 2017 -
Iranian authorities 'toying with life' of seriously-ill prisoner Arash SadeghiPress release 04 Jan 2017
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Urgent Action update: Allow jailed mother visits from her daughter in Iran
Iranian Revolutionary Guard officials have pressured British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, a prisoner of conscience, to choose between moving her two-year-old daughter into prison with her for up to three days a week or sign a…
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Youth arrested at 15 re-sentenced to death in Iran
Salar Shadizadi was sentenced to death again in November after a retrial in Iran. He has been on death row since 2007 for a crime committed when he was 15.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Teacher union activist must be released in Iran
Iranian teacher union activist Esmail Abdi, the Secretary General of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA), was arrested on 9 November and taken to Tehran’s Evin Prison to begin serving a six-year prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Anti-death penalty activist violently arrested in Iran
Iranian human rights defender and anti-death penalty campaigner Atena Daemi was violently arrested on 26 November and taken to Evin Prison to begin serving a seven-year prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Gravely ill Iranian musician returned to prison
Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian was forced to return to Tehran’s Evin Prison on 4 December. He had been on medical leave following his month-long hunger strike.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian filmmaker jailed, at risk of flogging
Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi was jailed on 23 November after being summoned to start serving his prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian activist couple jailed in Evin prison
The health of jailed Iranian human rights defender Arash Sadeghi has deteriorated. He has been on hunger strike since 24 October in protest at the imprisonment of his wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, a human rights defender jailed for writing a story about…
Urgent action outcomes 05 Dec 2016
