Evin Prison

‘I have seen this before. We will not go silently.’

Iranian-Canadian author and activist Marina Nemat on Donald Trump’s ‘trail of destruction and pain’

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

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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.

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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.