Evin Prison

Verdict For Jailed U.S. Hikers In Iran Expected In 1 Week

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 09.30.2011

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TEHRAN, Iran — The lawyer for two Americans jailed in Iran on charges of espionage said Sunday the court will announce its verdict within a week...

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Iran's Physical Abuse and Psychological Torture Needs to Stop

Alex Fattal | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd, Iran, Evin Prison, Shane Bauer, World News

Last week, our families published information that has been gnawing away at us for many months: my brother Josh and his friend Shane Bauer have been beaten while in Evin Prison in Iran and live under the fear of execution.

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An Iranian Suicide

Ben S. Cohen | Posted 07.03.2011

Read More: Siamak Pourzand Suicide, Siamak Pourzand, Evin Prison, Mohamed Bouazizi, Suicide, Szmuel Zygielbojm, Iran, Albert Camus, Jan Palach, Azadeh Pourzand, World News

A prominent journalist and critic before the Islamist seizure of power in 1979, Siamak Pourzand had endured more than three decades of vicious harassment at the hands of the regime.

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Giving Thanks for the People Helping Me in Our Campaign to Free the Hikers

Alex Fattal | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Fattal, Sarah Shourd, Free-the-Hikers, Masoud Shafii, Evin Prison, Iran Hikers, Thanksgiving 2010, American Hikers, Shane Bauer, World News

Thanksgiving feels empty with my brother Josh still sitting in Evin Prison in Iran for no good reason. Rather than wallow in his absence I want to reflect on some of the amazing people I'm thankful for.

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Jafar Panahi: I am Iranian and I will remain in Iran

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Film, Evin Prison, Green Opposition, Jafar Panahi, Montreal Film Festival, World News

Acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi was jailed in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, this past March. Iran never revealed why Mr Panahi was detained,...

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Iran Releases American Held For 2 Years In Tehran

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Tehran, Reza Taghavi, Evin Prison, Iran Prisoner, Tondar, World News

WASHINGTON — Iran on Saturday set free an American businessman jailed in Tehran for more than two years on suspicion on ties to an allegedly vio...

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American Hiker Jailed For A Year In Iran Meets With Ahmadinejad

AP | SAMANTHA GROSS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sarah Shourd, Iran, Iran Hikers, Josh Fattal, Evin Prison, Tehran, Shane Bauer, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Sarah Shourd Ahmadinejad, World News

NEW YORK — Sarah Shourd, one of three Americans arrested last year while hiking near the Iran-Iraq border, met with Iranian President Mahmoud Ah...

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Ahmadinejad Was Freed Hiker's Captor, Not Saviour

Omid Memarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, American Hikers, Evin Prison, Tehran, United Nations, UN General Assembly, Obama Administration, Sara Shourd, Iran Hikers, Judiciary, Espionage, Clemency, World News

Iranian President Ahmadinejad has portrayed himself as Shourd's benefactor, but it was his intelligence service that held her for 14 months. He was responsible for her detention without trial.

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Iranian Human Rights Advocate Faces Execution Threat Amid Indifference

Ben S. Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Human Rights, Evin Prison, Shiva Nazar Ahari, World News

Like the Lubyanka prison in Moscow during the Soviet period, or the Prinz Albrecht Strasse headquarters of the Gestapo in Nazi-era Berlin, Tehran's Ev...

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Iran's Uprising Continues -- From Prison Cells

Josh Shahryar | Posted 05.25.2011

Few stories chronicle the constant struggle for democracy and human rights in Iran. This, however, does not mean that the struggle is dead. It is a daily struggle that continues ever vigorously.

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Prisoners in Tehran

Marina Nemat | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran Human Rights, Iran, Human Rights, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iran Prisoners, Evin Prison, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, World News

Survivors of the Iranian regime's crackdowns need to be encouraged to speak out. Bombs, wars, and invasions will not fix the problem of Iran, but will make it worse. Change in Iran has to come from within.

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One Iranian Prisoner Released -- But Many Thousands to Go

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 05.25.2011

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The release of film director Jafar Panahi on bail is a wonderful day for those who prayed for his release. But no one can forget the many thousands of other political prisoners in Iranian jails.

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Iran's Jails: An Inside View Of Abuses

GlobalPost | Iason Athanasiadis | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Iran's jails have a notorious reputation for brutal conditions and harsh interrogation methods that include torture....

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Maziar Bahari Tells Of Ordeal In Tehran Prison

newsweek.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maziar Bahari Arrested, Maziar Bahari Released, Evin Prison, Iran Election, Iran Prisoners, Iran, Tehran, Foreign Affairs, Maziar Bahari, World News

For day after day, month after month, following his imprisonment in Iran on June 21, documentary filmmaker and NEWSWEEK correspondent Maziar Bahari di...

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Asking Iran to Show Compassion for my Brother and His Friends

Shannon Bauer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Josh Fattal, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, Evin Prison, Shane Bauer, Shourd, Iran Hikers, Detained Hikers, Sarah, World News

When I first heard that my brother, his girlfriend and their friend had been detained in Iran I felt my heart sink. More than 100 days later, I still get that feeling each morning.

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Maziar Bahari, Newsweek Reporter Jailed In Iran, Faces Personal Ordeal

AP | SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI | Posted 05.25.2011

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BEIRUT — Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari, who has been imprisoned in Iran for more than three months, got troubling news: His wife is having a d...

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Claire Messud On Iranian Memoir

The New York Review of Books | Claire Messud | Posted 05.25.2011

In Emin Prison Claire Messud The New York Review of Books "My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran" by Haleh Esfandiari. Ecco, ...

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Iranian Blogger Said To Be In Solitary Confinement For Three Weeks

nytimes.com | Robert Mackey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tehran, Iran, Evin Prison, Journalists in Jail, Iranian Blogger Arrested, Fariba Pajouh, Tehran's Evin Prison, World News

On Friday, an Iranian blogger and human rights activist, Mojtaba Samienejad, reported that a fellow blogger who had been working as a journalist for a...

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Freed Academic Haleh Esfandiari: 'Iranians Want Evolution, Not Revolution'

Diane Tucker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Every two or three years, there has been a wave of protests like this in Iran. But this time I think there has been a fundamental change.

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Rape and the Republic: Iran's Victims Speak Out

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kayhan Newspaper, Nader Sani, Taraneh Mousavi, Kahrizak Prison, Evin Prison, Rape, Divorce, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian, Iranian Presidential Election, Prison Rape, Democracy, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Supreme Leader, Prison Abuse, Systematic Rape, Shahram Azam, Ali Khamenei, Iranian Newspaper, Etemaad-E Melli, Mehdi Karroubi, Ali Larijani, Ziba Kazemi, Babak Daad, Sexual Violation, Hossein Shariatmadari, Nina Aghdam, Azar Ale-Kanan, Iranian Political Prisoners, Islamic Republic of Iran, World News

This week, Mehdi Karroubi came under fire for stating what for decades has been public knowledge in Iran: The systematic rape of political prisoners as a means of permanently disabling them from society, let alone from political activity.

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Kahrizak Prison, Which Held Iranian Protesters, Ordered Closed

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 05.25.2011

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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Tuesday released 140 people detained in Iran's postelection turmoil and the supreme leader ordered the closure of a priso...

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Let Me Introduce You to One of the People Imprisoned in Iran

Trita Parsi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bijan Khajepour, Iran, Iran Arrests, Iran Elections, US-Iran, Evin Prison, Atieh Bahar Consulting, Mir Hussein Moussavi, World News

As Iran's election crisis continues, hundreds if not thousands of prisoners remain in Iran's notorious Evin prison. Let me introduce you to one of them.

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The Rape of Taraneh: Prison Abuse of Iran's Protesters

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

The strategies and ultimate goals are the same for any kind of torture: to humiliate, disembody, extract confessions and permanently terrorize the victims to prevent further 'disturbances'.

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Lessons for Americans from Roxana Saberi's Release

Sam Sedaei | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nonviolent Action, Reporters Without Borders, Roxana Saberi, United States, Iran, Evin Prison, Barack Obama, World News

Roxana Saberi's story should be the beginning of another story, and that is the US government's speaking up about human rights atrocities in all parts of the world, rather than just Darfur.

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Hostage Diplomacy: Roxana Saberi and the Three Jailed Iranian Diplomats

Omid Memarian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roxana Saberi, Evin Prison, President Ahmadinejad, The Revolutionary Guard, Barack Obama, Tehran, World News

The US has to come to the realization that it's impossible to take three Iranian diplomats hostage for almost two years, no matter what you call them, and then expect the Iranian government to release Roxana Saberi.

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