Iranian-Canadian author and activist Marina Nemat on Donald Trump’s ‘trail of destruction and pain’
Tag Archives: Evin Prison
Iran sentences Canadian filmmaker to eight years in jail
Toronto-based filmmaker convicted of ‘gathering and collusion against national security’
A Canadian resident’s life slipping away in a Tehran jail
Since 2008, Saeed Malekpour has been serving a life sentence in the infamous Evin prison after he says he was tortured into a false confession
‘I want the Iranian government to release my son’: father of jailed blogger speaks
Hossein Ronaghi’s father fears his son will die in prison
Canadian man fears for his sister jailed in Tehran
A Canadian man who has already lost five siblings and a brother-in-law to the Islamic regime in Iran now fears for the life of his sister, Mansoureh Bekhish, arrested earlier this month and currently held in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison.
Five hanged in Tehran
I was out of the office when this atrocity took place. I’d be remiss, however, not to bring it to your attention even a week late. The five activists were murdered at Evin Prison, where Canadian Zahra Kazemi spent her last days alive. Four were Kurds. A widespread strike in protest of the executions shut down many of the Kurdish towns and cities in northwest Iran.
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