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    Mohammad Hossein Rafiee
    Ebby Abramson
    • Apr 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    Mohammad Hossein Rafiee

    In Brief Mohammad Hossein Rafiee, a retired Tehran University professor and member of the Meli-Mazhabi (National-Religious) Alliance and Iran’s National Peace Council, was sentenced to six years in prison on May 25, 2015. He was released on September 21, 2016. Case History Rafiee, 71, was charged with leading propaganda against the state and with active membership in the Council of Nationalist-Religious Activists, which had been deemed illegal. However, because Rafiee suffers
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    Homa Hoodfar
    Ebby Abramson
    • Apr 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    Homa Hoodfar

    In Brief Homa Hoodfar, a professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, was detained in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison on June 6, 2016. She was released on September 26, 2016. Case History Hoodfar, who is Iranian-Canadian and was 65 years old at the time of her detention, suffers from a rare neurological disease that causes severe muscle weakness. She was hospitalized at one point before being returned to her cell, according to her family. She was detained by authoriti
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    Bahareh Hedayat
    Ebby Abramson
    • Apr 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    Bahareh Hedayat

    In Brief Bahareh Hedayat, a student activist and women’s rights defender, was arrested on December 31, 2009. After nearly seven years in Evin prison, Hedayat was released in September 2016. Case History At the turn of the new year, Hedayat, an active campaigner for women’s rights, was sentenced and charged for two years for “insulting the Supreme Leader,” six months for “insulting the President,” and five years for “acting against national security and publishing falsehoods.”
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    Saeed Madani
    Ebby Abramson
    • Apr 25, 2019
    • 1 min

    Saeed Madani

    In Brief In June 2013 sociologist and political activist Saeed Madani was sentenced to six years in prison and ten years in exile on charges of “propaganda against the state” and “acting against national security.” Mandani been held without charge since January 7, 2012. Case History Security forces arrested Saeed Madani in 2012 for his political activism and membership in the now-banned Nationalist-Religious Alliance political opposition group. Following Madani's arrest, he s
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