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Urgent Action update: Sick Iranian blogger being forced to return to prison
Blogger and pioneering anti-censorship activist Hossein Ronaghi Maleki was released on temporary medical leave on 4 May.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Jun 2016 -
Urgen Action update: Iran: 16-Year prison sentence for Narges Mohammadi
Iranian human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi was sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment after her trial on 20 April. She suffers from serious illnesses and needs ongoing specialized medical care, which she cannot receive in…
Urgent action outcomes 02 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian musicians and filmaker summoned to jail
Iranian musicians Mehdi Rajabian and Yousef Emadi, and filmmaker Hossein Rajabian have been summoned to start serving a three-year prison sentence, imposed for their artistic work.
Urgent action outcomes 31 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Iranian businessman in long-term solitary confinement
Lebanese national and permanent US resident Nizar Zakka has been held in solitary confinement in Tehran’s Evin Prison since his arrest on 18 September 2015.
Urgent action outcomes 24 May 2016 -
“I will never stop” – a mother’s campaign to free her son in IranBlog post 20 May 2016
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Urgent Action: British-Iranian charity worker detained in Iran
British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe has been detained in an undisclosed detention centre in Kerman, southern Iran, since 3 April
Urgent action outcomes 20 May 2016 -
Iran: already-jailed and critically-ill human rights activist gets another 16-year sentencePress release 19 May 2016
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Urgent Action: Iranian teenager's execution still pending
Iranian teenager Alireza Tajiki is at continued risk of execution. The authorities did not carry out his scheduled execution on 15 May after a global outcry. However, they have not committed to not rescheduling the execution.
Urgent action outcomes 19 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Iranian teenager's execution still pending
Iranian teenager Alireza Tajiki is at continued risk of execution. The authorities did not carry out his scheduled execution on 15 May after a global outcry. However, they have not committed to not rescheduling the execution.
Urgent action outcomes 19 May 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian physicist needs ongoing cancer care
Iranian physicist and prisoner of conscience Omid Kokabee had surgery on 22 April to remove his right kidney. He has been diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer following five years of medical neglect in prison.
Urgent action outcomes 18 May 2016 -
Iranian teenager tortured into 'confessing' faces execution at weekendPress release 13 May 2016
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Urgent Action: Activist in Iran sentenced to two decades in jail
Iranian activist Amir Amirgholi was sentenced in early 2016 to 19 years and six months in prison following an hour-long trial on charges that stem from his peaceful activism.
Urgent action outcomes 10 May 2016 -
Iran's long overdue release of jailed artist should be followed by freeing of other POCsPress release 04 May 2016
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Atena Farghadani released early after being imprisoned for her art in IranShe was punished for drawing political cartoons. After a year and a half in prison, painter and activist Atena is free, more than ten years earlier than expected. Atena could still be reimprisoned on existing charges at any point in the next four years,…
04 May 2016 -
Campaigners call for release of vulnerable British businessman jailed in IranPress release 03 May 2016
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Urgent Action: Whereabouts of disappeared Iranian man unknown
The Iranian authorities have yet to establish the fate and whereabouts of Yousef Silavi, from Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority, who has been missing since November 2009.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Apr 2016 -
Urgent Action Iran: Teenager faces imminent execution
A 19-year old Iranian man has been scheduled for execution on 16 April for an offence committed when he was under 18 years of age. He has been put in solitary confinement in Rasht’s Lakan Prison in advance of the execution. Alireza Pour Olfat
Urgent action outcomes 15 Apr 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience starts hunger strike in Iran
Prisoner of conscience Saeed Shirzad started a hunger strike on 31 March 2016 in protest at prison conditions.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Apr 2016 -
Stop the execution of Amanj Veisee - a juvenile offender in IranBlog post 09 Apr 2016
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Iranian man facing imminent execution denied the right to appealPress release 08 Apr 2016
