Tonia Kaboudvand’s letter to her imprisoned father, Mohammad Sadegh Kaboudvand. My dear father, today we enter the third year in which you were taken from us and we are still eagerly waiting for your return. Father, you are not an …
Posted in Discrimination, Free speech, Iran, Journalists, Kurdistan, Prisoners of Conscience, Suppression | Comments Off on Guilty of your innocence!On Sunday the 19th of July, Mohammad Sadegh Kaboudvand was tried in the first branch of the revolutionary court of Mahabad for allegedly spreading propaganda against the regime through publications and distribution of pamphlets on the issue of Kurdish women. This is despite already serving 11 years imprisonment.
Posted in Discrimination, Free speech, General, Human Rights Watch, Iran, Journalists, Kurdistan, Suppression | Comments Off on HROK: Iran puts Kaboudvand on trial againThe Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports: TEHRAN – Iranian Kurdish journalists Abdolvahed Hiva Botimar and Adnan Hassanpour have been jailed on charges involving possession of military grade weapons and providing information on military bases, their lawyer Saleh Nikbakht said on Saturday. …
Posted in Censorship, Iran, Journalists, Political Prisoners, Trials | Comments Off on Iran jails two Kurdish journalistsIranian Human Rights Voice  reports: As has been publicized before, Mohammad-Sedigh Kaboodvand was convicted of establishing the organization called Kurdistan Human Rights, and he received an 11-year jail term. During his 700 days in prison, Mr. Kaboodvand has been under constant …
Posted in Health, Iran, Journalists | Comments Off on Kaboodvand’s Heart Surgery Intentionally DelayedHuman rights monitors say Iranian authorities continue to detain and harass men and women of Iran’s ethnic Kurdish minority. According to the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan, an independent human rights group, more than 100 ethnic Kurdish literary, cultural, and …
Posted in Discrimination, Executions, Free speech, Human Rights Watch, Iran, Journalists, Political Prisoners, Prisoners of Conscience, Reports, Suppression, Women | Comments Off on Iran's harassed Kurdish minorityThe Ministry of Intelligence and the security deputy of the Revolutionary Prosecutor’s office rejected a request by Mohammad-Sedigh Kaboodvand to seek medical treatment outside of the prison system. The request was supposed to be reviewed and approved by the prison …
Posted in Discrimination, Health, Iran, Journalists | Tagged Kaboudvand | Comments Off on Ministry of Intelligence refuses treatment request for KaboudvandFrom Human Rights Activists in Iran: Sabah Nasari and Hedayat Ghazali, two Kurdish students attending universities in Tehran, were released a few hours ago, after serving an 18 months sentence, from the Evin Prison. Sabah Nasari, a graduate student in …
Posted in Iran, Journalists, Political Prisoners, Suppression | Comments Off on Two student activists released from prisonMohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, an imprisoned journalist and human rights activist, is currently serving an 11 year sentence in Iran’s notorious Evin prison under the ambiguous charge of “acting against national interestâ€. Kaboudvand has suffered two heart attacks while in prison, …
Posted in Health, Iran, Journalists, Prisoners of Conscience | Comments Off on Ailing Kaboudvand enters hunger strike to protest lack of medical treatment