In VOA interview, lawyer Saleh Nikbakht criticized Iran’s Supreme Court for rejecting his request to retry Heydar Ghorbani, sentenced to death for 2016 killings of military officers
Source close to Navid Afkari’s family told VOA Persian that Iran gave no advance warning to wrestler’s family and lawyers that it would execute him in prison early Saturday
In recent audio message sent to VOA Persian, Soheil Arabi slammed Greater Tehran Penitentiary’s hygiene as poor, food as inedible and drinking water as contaminated
Source tells VOA Persian that Navid Afkari told relatives in a brief Sunday phone call from prison that he and his two jailed brothers were beaten and then denied medical treatment
US president’s Thursday Twitter appeal came after a source told VOA Persian that Iran’s top court upheld a death sentence against wrestler Navid Afkari Sangari
In VOA Persian interview, Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband said she told him by phone from Evin prison that a doctor advised a serum injection because of low blood pressure
Four Iranian Dervishes forced to live in internal exile after release from prison told VOA Persian that recent assertion by Iran’s judiciary spokesman about exile policy is untrue
In VOA interview, a lawyer for Liza Tebyanian said she was sent to a prison in Karaj on August 15 to begin a 7-month sentence for allegedly spreading anti-government ‘propaganda’
Fatemeh Maleki told VOA that Iranian authorities were jailing protesters for sympathizing with victims of plane crash but not bringing those who caused the crash to justice
Informed source tells VOA Persian that Heydar Ghorbani’s lawyer requested a retrial in response to an August 6 Supreme Court ruling that upheld Ghorbani’s death sentence
Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband told VOA that she started her second hunger strike of the year Tuesday at Tehran’s Evin prison, where she has been detained since June 2018
In VOA interview, wife of teacher's union leader Esmail Abdi said he told her about the coronavirus predicament facing him and other inmates in phone call from Evin prison on Sunday
Source close to activist Jafar Azimzadeh, jailed since January 2019, told VOA an appellate court upheld a new 13-month sentence against him in an August 1 ruling
Narges Mohammadi’s husband, Taghi Rahmani, says the dangerous phase of his wife’s coronavirus symptoms that began a month ago has passed
Iran-based mother of dissident Majid Asadi says he told her about the new case against him in a July 22 phone call from prison
Iran-based source tells VOA Persian that Ataollah Rezaei was transferred from Tehran to Langerud prison near Qom, the activist’s home, to start his sentence
Arsham Rezaee tells VOA Persian the prison term upheld Saturday by an Iranian appeals court was based on bogus charges which his lawyer was unable to defend against
Family member tells VOA that Manouchehr Bakhtiari, whose son Pouya was killed in Iran’s November 2019 protests, was still in detention as of July 20, seven days after his rearrest
Daemi’s father says Tehran court convicted her for staging a prison sit-in to mourn Iranians slain in Nov. 2019 anti-government protests
In VOA Persian interview, Ebrahim Firoozi says Iran’s government sends peaceful activists such as himself to internal exile to harass them after prison
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