Iranian human rights defenders behind bars : (source: FIDH-LDDHI) |
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Gdr | Family name | First name | Occupation/ activity | Date of latest arrest | Place of detention | Conditions of detention | Background information / sentence | Other information |
Mr. | Abedini-Nasr | Abolfazi | Human rights activist/journalist | 2 March 2010 | Evin prison/illegally transferred to a prison in Ahvaz in late July 2013. | Serving sentence of 12 years imprisonment | Was initially sentenced to 11 years; later received 1 more year while in prison. | |
Mr. | Ahmadi | Farzad | Trade unionist | 11 August 2012 to serve sehntence of 4 months for 'propaganda against the system' | Sanadaj | Has been detained several times in the past few years | Released after serving his prison sentence on 9 October 2012 | |
Mr. | Ahmadi | Jalil | Trade unionist | November 2009 | Dezful | Sentenced 6 months | Released after 4 months | |
Ms. | Ahsani | Elham | Human rights activist | 8 February 2010 | Evin prison | Released after 40 days | has left Iran to avoid arrest | |
Mr. | Ajami | Ali Akbar | Student activist | 4 December 2010 | Rajaishahr prison | Sentenced to 2 years imprisonment in internal exile | Released Feb 2012 | |
Mr. | Akhavan | Ali | Trade unionist | 28 January 2012 | Evin prison | Sentenced to 18 months imprisonment | Released on 15 August 2012 | |
Mr. | Alipour | Ghorban | Trade unionist | November 2009 | Dezful | Sentenced 6 months | Released after 4 months | |
Mr. | Amani | Sheys | Trade unionist | 17 January 2012 | Sanandaj | Released 8 March 2012 | ||
Mr. | Amin-Vaziri | Mehrdad | Trade unionist | 14 February 2012 | Sanadaj | Released 18 March 2012 | ||
Mr. | Asadi Zeidabadi | Hassan | Student activist | 22 August 2010 | Evin prison | Serving 5 years imprisonment | ||
Mr. | Asgari | Alireza | Trade unionist | 15 June 2012 | Karaj | Health problems | Sentenced to 1 year imprisonment suspended for 3 years | Released on 18 September 2012 |
Mr. | Azadi | Ali | Trade unionist | 8 March 2013 | Sanandaj | Released on bail on 9 May 2013 | ||
Mr. | Azimi | Mohammad-Reza | Lawyer | 19 July 2009 | Unknown | Reportedly sentenced to suspended prison term | Believed to be at large | |
Mr. | Ali Akbar | Baghani | Unionist teacher/secretary-general of Teachers Association of Iran | 28 April 2010 | In January 2013, he was sentenced to one year in prison and 10 years of internal exile; had previously been sentenced to five years suspended prison term; will also have to serve the 5-year suspended sentence if the new one-year prison sentence is upheld. | In August 2013, he was summoned to serve his sentence, but the implementation of the sentence was halted for further investigations; Currently free | ||
Mr. | Bagheri | Mahmood | Unionist teacher | 23 July 2012 | Evin prison | Serving 9.5 years imprisonment | Sentence halved under a September 2012 amnesty | |
Mr. | Bagheri | Zabihollah | Trade unionist | 24 April 2012 | Isfahan | Present condition unknown | ||
Mr. | Bastani | Massoud | Journalist | 4 July 2009 | Rajaishahr prison | serious concerns of health | Serving 6-year prison sentence | |
Ms. | Bayazidi | Zeynab | Women's right defender | 15 May 2011 | Zanjan prison | Hunger strike | Sentenced to 4 and half years imprisonment in internal exile | Released 20 Nov 2012 at the end of her sentence |
Mr. | Beheshti-Langaraoudi | Mohammad | Unionist teacher/ spokesperson of the Teachers Association of Iran | 28 April 2010 | In May 2013, he was sentenced to a total of 9 years in prison, four years of which suspended | In September 2013, he was summoned to serve his 5-year sentence, but the implementation of the sentence was halted for further investigations; Currently free | ||
Ms. | Behkish | Mansoureh | Human rights defender | 12 June 2011 | Evin prison | Was held 1 month and released in July 2012; Trial on 25 December 2011; Was sentenced in first instance to 4.5 years imprisonment; On appeal, sentenced to 6 months custodial imprisonment and 3.5 years imprisonment suspended for 5 years | Is still free | |
Mr. | Behroozi | Omid | Human rights lawyer | September 2011 | Evin prison | Follower of a Sufi order; pre-trial detention September 2011-July 2013 | In July 2013, sentenced to 7.5 years imprisonment; refused to appeal because of being useless; remains in detention. | |
Ms. | Bidgoli | Maryam | Women's rights defender | 21 July 2011 | Unknown | Released | ||
Mr. | Bodaghi | Rassoul | Unionist teacher | 2 September 2009 | Rajaishahr prison | Serving a 6-year prison term | ||
Mr. | Boutimar | Abdolvahed (aka Hiwa) | Environmentalist; minorities rights defenders | 25 December 2006 | Marivan prison | Sentenced to 8 years. initially death sentence | Released on 21 Nov 2012 after six years | |
Mr. | Dadkhah | Mohammad Ali | Human rights lawyer and founding member of the DHRC | 29 September 2012 | Evin prison | Serving a nine-year imprisonment sentence pronounced in May 2011 and upheld on appeal in late April 2012 | Currently on leave from prison | |
Mr. | Daneshju | Mostafa | Human rights lawyer | Evin prison | Follower of a Sufi order; sentenced to 7 months imprisonment served in Sari; pre-trial detention September 2011-July 2013 | In July 2013, sentenced to 7.5 years imprisonment; refused to appeal because of being useless; remains in detention. | ||
Mr. | Dorri | Majid | Student activist | 9 July 2009 | Behbahan prison | 6 years imprisonment in internal exile | ||
Mr. | Davari | Mohammad | Unionist teacher/journalist | 8 September 2009 | Evin prison | Serving a total of 6 years | Was initially sentenced to 5 years; later received 1 more year for inability to pay a fine from an earlier sentence | |
Ms. | Ebrahimi | Omolbanin | Human rights activist | 6 February 2010 | Evin prison | Sentenced to 5 years suspended imprisonment | Is free | |
Mr. | Ebrahimzadeh | As'ad (Behnam) | Trade unionist/child right activist | 12 June 2010 | Evin prison | Sentenced on appeal to 5 years imprisonment in October 2011 | His only son has been in hospital for cancer for a long time | |
Mr. | Entessari | Reza | Photojournalist | September 2011 | Evin prison | Follower of a Sufi order; pre-trialdetention September 2011-July 2013 | In July 2013, sentenced to 8.5 years imprisonment; refused to appeal because of being useless; remains in detention. | |
Mr. | Eslami | Amir | Human rights lawyer | 4 September 2011 | Evin prison | Follower of a Sufi order; sentenced to 6 months imprisonment on January 23, 2011; pre-trial detention September 2011-July 2013 | In July 2013, sentenced to 7.5 years imprisonment; refused to appeal because of being useless; remains in detention. | |
Mr. | Farahi-Shandiz | Mehdi | unionist teacher | January 2012 | Evin prison | Serving his 3-year prison sentence | Has been detained several times in the past; has been kept in solitary confinement several months | |
Mr. | Farajollahi | Behzad | Trade unionist | 8 March 2013 | Released on 30 March 2013 on bail | Sentenced to 1 year custodial imprisonment; awaiting appeal | ||
Ms. | Farid | Faranak | Women's rights defender | 3 September 2011 | Tabriz | Released after 42 days | Sentenced in first instance to 91 days custodial imprisonment, 16 March 2012; sentenced to cash fine on 22 Feb 2012 | |
Mr. | Fat'hi | Sirous | Trade unionist | 16 June 2012 | Karaj | Released after 20 days | Tried and acquitted in October 2013 | |
Mr. | Fetratnejad | Faramarz | Trade unionist | 16 June 2012 | Karaj | Released after 20 days | Tried and acquitted in October 2013 | |
Mr. | Ghabel | Ahmad | Religious scholar and activist | 31 July 2011 | Vakilabad prison in Mashhad | 20 months//Apparently released for brain tumour surgery has not returned to prison | Died late October 2012 | |
Mr. | Ghaderi | Vafa | Trade unionist | 8 March 2013 | Released on bail 9 April 2013 | Sentenced to 1 year custodial imprisonment; awaiting appeal | ||
Mr. | Ghanbari | Abdolreza | Unionist teacher | 27 December 2009 | Unknown | Death sentence on charges of contacts with opposition groups abroad; has appealed | In August 2013, his death sentence was commuted to 15 years imprisonment to be served in internal exile in the remote city of Borazjan. | |
Mr. | Goli | Yasser | Student activist/Kurdish minority member | October 2007 | Baft prison | Sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in internal exile | Left the country during a medical leave from prison | |
Ms. | Golroo | Mahdieh | Women's rights defender/student activist | 3 December 2009 | Evin prison | Released at the end of her sertence | ||
Mr. | Hashemi | Alireza | Unionist teacher/secretary-general of Organisation of Iranian Teachers | 30 April 2010 | Evin prison | Released on 2 June 2010; Previously arrested in March 2007 and released after 19 days; then sentenced to three years custodial imprisonment | Sentenced to five years custodial imprisonment in September 2013; awaiting appeal. | |
Mr. | Hassanpour | Adnan | Journalist/Kurdish minority rights defender | 29 June 2005 | Sanandaj prison | Initially sentenced to death; mitigated to 15 years | ||
Mr. | Haydarimehr | Mohammad | Trade unionist | November 2009 | Dezful | Sentence and served 4 month; | Released | |
Ms. | Hedayat | Bahareh | Student/women's rights activist | 29 December 2009 | Evin prison | Sentenced to 9 years and 6 month imprisonment+6 months=10 years | ||
Ms. | Homayouni | Mitra | Trade unionist | 16 June 2012 | Karaj | Released after 20 days | Tried and acquitted in October 2013 | |
Mr. | Hosseini | Ghaleb | Trade unionist | 19 March 2013 | Sanadaj | Released on bail on 13 May 2013 | Sentenced to 1.5 years custodial imprisonment; awaiting appeal | |
Mr. | Hosseini | Khaled | Trade unionist | 8 March 2013 | Sanadaj | Released on bail 9 April 2013 | Sentenced to 1 year custodial imprisonment; awaiting appeal | |
Mr. | Hosseini | Mohammad | Trade unionist | December 2011 | Damavand | No more info | ||
Mr. | Houtan-Kiyan | Javid | Lawyer | October 2010 | Tabriz | at least 4 years imprisonment; could be facing other charges | Released after three years on 19 August 2013 | |
Mr. | Jalalifar | Saeed | Human rights activist | 31 July 2011 | Evin prison | | Currently serviung a 3-year prison sentence | |
Mr. | Jamali | Ali | Student activist | 22 August 2010 | Evin prison | 4 years imprisonment reduced to 2 years | Released on 14 August 2012 | |
Mr. | Jarrahi | Mohammad | Trade unionist | 15 January 2012 | Tabriz | Serving a 5-year sentence | ||
Mr. | Kaboudvand | Mohammad Sadiq | Human rights defender; founder of Kurdistan Human Rights Organisation; journalist | 1 July 2007 | Evin prison | Heart attack; 3 strokes + lack of medical care | Serving 10.5 years in prison | |
Ms. | Karami | Mahboubeh | Women's rights defender | 15 May 2011 | Evin prison | Tortured | Serving 3 years | Released 18 September 2013 |
Mr. | Karampour | Afshin | Human rights lawyer | 5 September 2011 | Evin prison | Follower of a Sufi order; pre-trial detention September 2011-July 2013 | In July 2013, sentenced to 7.5 years imprisonment; refused to appeal because of being useless; remains in detention. | |
Ms. | Jila | Karamzadeh-Makvandi | Human rights activist | 27 December 2011 | Evin prison | Served most of her two-year custodial prison sentence | Released on 18 September 2013 | |
Mr. | Karimi | Sadiq | Trade unionist | 31 January 2012 | Sanandaj | Released 6 April 2012 | ||
Mr. | Khastar | Hashem | Unionist teacher | Arrested on 23 Nov 2013 and imprisoned for failing to pay the cash fine in his sentence. | Mashhad | Previously served 2 years; released 8 September 2011; tried again in January 2012; in November 2012, sentenced to a total of 60 million rials fine for propaganda against the system; 3 years ban on interviews with foreign broadcasters and opposition media abroad and banned from travelling abroad; fine reduced to 20 million rials. | ||
Mr. | Khodaei | Mehdi | Student/human rights activist | March 2010 | Evin prison | Serving two sentences of 3 and 4 years imprisonment; total 7 years | ||
Mr. | Madadi | Ebrahim | Trade unionist | 7 December 2011 | Evin prison | Sentenced to 3 years and a half in December 2008 | Released at the end of his sentence on 18 April 2012 | |
Ms. | Madadzadeh | Shabnam | Student & women's rights defender | 18 February 2009 | Evin prison | Torture + very poor health | 5 years imprisonment in internal exile | |
Mr. | Malihi | Ali | Student activist | 9 February 2010 | Evin prison | 4 years imprisonment | Released on 15 August 2012 | |
Mr. | Mahmoudian | Mehdi | Journalist | September 2009 | Rajaishahr prison | Serving 5 years imprisonment | ||
Mr. | Mahmoudinejad | Hamed | Trade unionist | 2 May 2013 | Sanandaj | Released on bail on 19 May 2013 | ||
Ms. | Masjedi | Fatemeh | Women's rights defender | 28 January 2011 | Qom | Sentenced to six months and served. | Released | |
Mr. | Matinpour | Saeed | Azeri minority rights defenders | 27 December 2009 | Evin prison | Serious health problems | Serving 8 years | |
Mr. | Mehrpour | Maziar | Trade unionist | 16 June 2012 | Karaj | Released after 20 days | Tried and acquitted in October 2013 | |
Mr. | Mohammadi | Jalil | Trade unionist | 2 May 2013 | Sanandaj | has been arrested several times before; e.g. was detained from 15 June 2012 to 16 August 2012 | Released on bail on 8 July 2013 | |
Ms. | Mohammadi | Nargess | Human rights defender | 21 April 2012 | Zanjan prison | Suffered from muscle paralysis | 6 years | Released on bail on 31 July 2012 |
Mr. | Mohammadzadeh | Ali Akbar | Student activist | February 2011 | Evin prison | Sentenced on appeal to 6 years on 2 November 2011 | ||
Mr. | Moghaddam | Saeed | Trade unionist | 16 June 2012 | Karaj | Released after 20 days | Tried and acquitted in October 2013 | |
Mr. | Moradi-Sarvestani | Hamidreza | manager of a Sufi website | 5 September 2011 | Evin prison | needs medical attention | Follower of a Sufi order; pre-trial detention September 2011-July 2013 | In July 2013, sentenced to 7.5 years imprisonment; refused to appeal because of being useless; remains in detention. |
Ms. | Nabavi | Atefeh | Women's rights defender | 15 June 2009 | Evin prison | 3 years imprisonment | Released at the end of her sentence end May 2012 | |
Mr. | Nabavi | Zia | Student/human rights activist | 14 June 2009 | Karun-Ahvaz | Serving 10 years imprisonment in internal exile | ||
Mr. | Nasrollahi | Pedram | Trade unionist | 14-nov.-2012 | Sanadaj | Currently serving prison sentence of 19 months; was detained on 7 March 2012; released 24 April 2012; has been facing more proceedings and punitive solitary confinement since his latest detention | ||
Ms. | Nazarahari | Shiva | Human rights & women's rights activist | 9 September 2012 | Evin prison | Currently serving a 4-year prison sentence; has been arrested several times in the span of the last decade including three times after the 2009 elections | Currently on leave from prison. | |
Mr. | Nejati | Ali | Trade unionist | 12 November 2011 | Dezful | Medically unfit to serve his sentence (heart problems) | Served 1-year imprisonment; | Released on 24 September 2012; Was tried on 20 Oct 2012 and 5 Jan 2013 in Sanandaj for singing a folklore song in a private party |
Mr. | Nikufar | Fereydoun | Trade unionist | November 2009 | Dezful | Sentenced 6 months | Released after 4 months | |
Mr. | Ossalu (aka Ossanlu) | Mansour | Trade unionist | July 2007 | Rajaishahr prison | Suffered heart attacks | Sentenced to 6 years | Released on extended leave in June 2011; left the country |
Mr. | Rakhshan | Reza | Trade unionist | Unknown | Dezful | Served 6 months | Released in June 2011 | |
Ms. | Rastegari- Nasab | Fatemeh | Human rights activist | 8 February 2010 | Evin prison | Released after 40 days | ||
Mr. | Ronaghi-Maleki | Hossein | Blogger /student | 13 December 2009 | Evin prison | Poor treatment of kidney bleeding/has lost one kidnye & the other is functioning 80%; has received 4 operations; authorities have refused to allow full treatment & post-operation care; in bad health conditions | Serving sentence of 15 years imprisonment | Was given sick leave in July 2012 for treatment and recuperation; was rearrested together with scores of others who were trying to help earth- quake victims in late Aug 2012; consequently sentenced to 2 more years in 1st instance in Jan 2013 |
Mr. | Sa'ed-Panah | Sharif | Trade unionist | 10 March 2013 | Sanadaj | Released on 28 March 2013; previously arrested 8 January 2012 and released 9 Feb 2012; Sentenced to six months custodial imprisonment in April 2013 | On appeal, imprisonment sentence converted to fine of 6 million rials in October 2013 | |
Ms. | Safazadeh | Ronak | Women's rights defender/Kurdish minority rights defender | 25 September 2007 | Sanandaj | Beaten up by other inmates | Sentenced to 6 years and 7 months imprisonment; | Released after serving two-thirds of her sentence on 13 May 2012 |
Mr. | SaharKhiz | Issa | Journalist | 3 July 2009 | Rajaishahr prison | Needs medical attention/received surgery | 3 years; Sentenced in August 2011 on unspecified charges to 1.5 years more impirsonment in an old case | Released 4 October 2013 |
Mr. | Salimpour | Massoud | Trade unionist | 16 June 2012 | Karaj | Released after 20 days | Tried and acquitted in October 2013 | |
Mr. | Seifzadeh | Mohammad | Human rights defender/lawyer | 11 April 2011 | Evin prison | Needs medical attention | Sentenced on appeal to 2 years prison in June 2011; summoned to new hearings but refused to attend 5 times in protest to the court's incompetence; sentenced to six more years imprisonment in April 2013 | Illegally transferred to Rajaishahr prison on 5 Dec 2012 |
Mr. | Salehnia | Mozaffar | Trade unionist | 5 January 2012 | Sanandaj | Released 9 Feb 2012; Sentenced to six months custodial imprisonment in April 2013 | On appeal, imprisonment sentence converted to fine of 6 million rials in October 2013 | |
Mr. | Samimi-Behbahani | Kayvan | Human rights defender/journalist | 13 June 2009 | Rajaishahr prison | Suffers from liver and kidney problems | 6 years prison & 15 years ban on professional & political activities | |
Mr. | Sarchahi | Hassan | Lawyer | 16 December 2010 | Evin prison | 2 years imprisonment | Believed to be at large | |
Mr. | Shabani | Mostafa | Lawyer | 19 July 2009 | Unknown | is said to be sentenced to five years imprisonment; appealing | Believed to be at large | |
Mr. | Shahabi | Reza | Trade unionist | 2 June 2010 | Evin prison | Hunger strike / very bad medical conditions / needs medical care | Serving sentence of 6 years imprisonment | |
Ms. | Shirazi | Fereshteh | Women's rights defender/student activist | 4 September 2011 | Amol prison | 3 years imprisonment | Released in January 2013 | |
Mr. | Soltani | Abdolfattah | Human rights defender/lawyer | 10 September 2011 | Evin prison | Serious health problems | On appeal sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in internal exile in Borazjan prison & 10 years of ban on professional activities/ June 2012 | |
Ms. | Sotoudeh | Nasrin | Human rights lawyer | 4 September 2010 | Evin prison | Sentenced to 11 years and 20 years of ban on professional activitieson 9 January 2011/on appeal commuted to 6 years imprisonment and 10 years ban on professional activities and travelling abroad. | Relesed on 18 September 2013; ban on professional practice and travelling abroad still in force. | |
Mr. | Tavakkoli | Majid | Student activist | 7 December 2009 | Rajaishahr prison | Sentenced to total of 8.5 years half imprisonment | Received a 6-month extra prison sentence in 2011 that was upheld in Nov 2011. | |
Mr. | Yadollahi | Farshid | Human rights lawyer | 11 September 2011 | Evin prison | Follower of a Sufi order; sentenced to 6 months on 23 January 2011; pre-trial detention September 2011-July 2013 | In July 2013, sentenced to 7.5 years imprisonment; refused to appeal because of being useless; remains in detention. | |
Mr. | Younesi | Hassan | Lawyer | 9 July 2011 | Evin prison | 1 year sentence | Released | |
Mr. | Zamani | Shahrokh | Trade unionist | 15 January 2012 | Rajaishahr prison | Serving 11 years in prison | Illegally exiled from Tabriz prison to Yazd prison, on 27 May 2012 without reason; returned to Tabriz prison on 5 Aug 2012; illegally exiled again to Rajaishahr prison in Oct 2012; was tried again in September 2013 and sentenced to a further six month imprisonment on charge of insulting the leader. | |
Mr. | Zeydabadi | Ahmad | Journalist | 14 June 2009 | Rajaishahr prison | Extreme loss of weight | Sentenced to 6 years in prison/5 years of internal exile/ life-time ban on professional work | |
Ms. | Zeynali | Farzaneh | Human rights activist | 9 January 2010 | Evin prison | Released after about 40 days |