Showing posts with label Evin prison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evin prison. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

IRAN - Pen Association calls for immediate release of Ms. Narges Mohammadi

Denmark’s Pen Association has called for the release of Ms. Narges Mohammadi, a human rights lawyer and a rights’ activist who is currently imprisoned in the notorious Evin Prison 
Denmark’s Pen Association has expressed deep concern about the seriousness and dire condition of Ms. Narges Mohammadi in prison and has demanded her immediate and prompt release without any condition.

Narges Mohammadi, lawyer and activist












Saturday, May 16, 2015

Iran: Tehran- Largest prison built to ramp up suppression

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Construction of Iran’s largest prison in Tehran is finished, a regime official announced.
“The stages to build the largest prison in Tehran are finished and we are adding new spaces to this complex,” Mohammad Alizadeh said. “We needed a new prison.”
The new prison named the “Great Prison” is situated in Hassanabad district and can contain 15000 prisoners.
The advisor to the Interior Minister Reza Mahjoubi said, “The number of people entering our prisons is above world average and every year half a million people enter our prisons of whom 200000 remain there.” He nonetheless failed to mention the cause for this high number of prisoners.

Sunday, May 3, 2015

IRAN- New England Pen Association Prize has been given to a martyred Iran SATAR BEHESHT Iian blogger


SATAR BEHESHTI
The US based New England Pen Association Prize for freedom of expression and freedom of writing has been given to the Iranian blogger, Sattar Beheshti who was killed under torture two years ago in Evin prison in Iran.