Tehran-based activist Reza Mazaheri tells VOA Persian he rejected a June 16 summons to a prison where he would serve his two-year sentence
Brother of Hedayat Abdollahpour, a dissident sentenced to death in 2017, tells VOA he obtained Hedayat’s death certificate Wednesday
In VOA Persian interview, Iranian Arab rights researcher Karim Dahimi says schoolteacher in Khuzestan province was punished for social media posts criticizing local authorities
Activist Hedayat Abdollahpour’s brother Farhad said their father received a June 10 phone call asserting that Hedayat was executed around May 21
Mary Mohammadi was jailed earlier this year for joining anti-government protests
Exiled Iranian Sunni activist tells VOA Persian that outspoken Sunni cleric Molavi Fazl al-Rahman Kouhi has remained arbitrarily detained in Iran’s Mashhad since November
New charges could add to her seven-year prison term for peaceful activism
In VOA Persian interview, Vida Mehran Nia said Iran’s judiciary offered no response to release requests from her sick husband Ahmad Reza Jalali, sentenced to death in 2017
Source says judiciary official said 5-year sentence qualified her for release
One recently freed Dervish dissident was sent into internal exile; another was forced to stay in coronavirus-plagued prison system far from home
She's been detained since June 2018
Hashem Khastar is serving a 16-year sentence
Source familiar with Shahla Jahanbin’s situation told VOA Persian the dissident informed Evin prison officials last week that she needs surgery before starting 3-year sentence
An Iran-based source told VOA Persian that the prisons chief of Razavi Khorasan province filed a complaint against the child of jailed dissident Abbas Vahedian Shahroudi
She says Iranian officials rejected repeated requests to furlough her husband, Mohammad Sharifi Moghadam, from Greater Tehran Penitentiary
In VOA Persian interview, Soheil Arabi's mother confirmed that he ended a hunger strike on Wednesday and that he wrote a letter vowing to fight for better prison conditions
In VOA Persian interview, Iran-based activist Shahla Entesari said Iranians have directed pandemic-related stress toward family members, mirroring global phenomenon
In April 16 interview with VOA Persian, Iranian women's rights activist Giti Pourfazel said stay-at-home rules have made it harder for female heads-of-household to earn a living
Two dissidents whose activist wives remain jailed in Iran say relatives risk contracting virus when visiting
Zartosht Ahmadi Ragheb tells VOA that regime mismanagement will prolong unemployment, recession
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