Inside Iran

Update: Return of seven Kurdish political prisoners to Orumieh’s central prison

(21 February 2012) – Last week, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center received reports that on Tuesday, February 14 seven Kurdish political prisoners were transferred ... Read more

Kurdish political prisoners transferred from Orumieh prison to an unknown location

(15 February 2012) -- Seven Kurdish political prisoners in Orumieh prison, some of whom were placed in solitary confinement last December, have been transferred to ... Read more

Pressures on Kurdish students and teachers in Marivan continue

(13 February 2012) – Over the past few weeks, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center has received several reports about continuing pressure from Iranian authorities ... Read more

Mind-altering drugs given to death row prisoner Vahid Asghari, political prisoner Hossein Asghari, and other inmates in Evin prison

By Firooze Ramezanzadeh, special to IHRDC’s Inside Iran (8 February 2012) – According to recent reports from Evin prison’s Ward 350, authorities in the prison’s medical ... Read more

The mental health of Reza Malek, Ayub Ghanbarpourian, and other political prisoners jailed in Evin prison is in peril

By Firooze Ramezanzadeh, special to IHRDC’s Inside Iran (8 February 2012) – According to the latest reports received from Evin prison in Tehran, the mental health ... Read more

IHRDC Exclusive Full Length Video of Public Hanging of Three Men in Azadi Square in Kermanshah, Iran

(12 January 2012) Last week, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) published exclusive video of the public execution of three men that took place in Azadi Square in Kermanshah, Iran the morning of Thursday, 5 January, 2012. ... Watch video

IHRDC Exclusive Video of Public Hanging of Three Men in Azadi Square in Kermanshah, Iran this Morning, Thursday, January 5 2012

(5 January 2012) The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center has obtained exclusive video of a public execution of three persons that took place in Azadi ... Watch video

A message from the father of Zanyar Moradi, a Kurdish political prisoner on death row in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Twenty year old Zanyar Moradi was reportedly arrested on August 2, 2009. Nine months after his arrest, he was charged with assassination of the ... Watch video

Continued detention of six Kurdish political prisoners in solitary confinement in Orumieh central prison in Iran

(20 December 2011) – The families of six Kurdish political prisoners held in solitary confinement at Orumieh central prison still have no information about the ... Read more

Transfer of six political prisoners to solitary confinement in the central prison of Orumieh

(12 December 2011) On the evening of Monday, December 5, 2011, prison guards attacked Ward 12, the ward that houses political prisoners, of the central ... Read more

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