Maryam Akbari

Maryam Akbari-Monfared sentenced to another 2 years in prison in Iran

Iranian political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared, who has already served nearly 14 years of her 15-year prison sentence, has received an additional two-year sentence, while prison guards have privately told her that she will “never be released” unless she retracts her call for accountability over the state murder of her brother and sister during the 1988 […]

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Amnesty International Urgent Appeal Action

Amnesty warns of reprisal against Iran dissident for speaking out against 1988 massacre

Amnesty International has issued an Urgent Action appeal over the case of Iranian political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared who has been threatened with an additional three-year prison term and exile to a remote prison in reprisal for her open letters seeking truth and justice for her siblings who were extrajudicially executed during Iran’s 1988 massacre of

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Sara Jafari-Hatam, the daughter of Maryam Akbari-Monfared. 11 years old,

Text of letter by Sara Jafari-Hatam to Asma Jahangir, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran:

Greetings dear Ms. Asma Jahangir, My name is Sara Jafari-Hatam, the daughter of Maryam Akbari-Monfared. I am 11 years old, and when I was three they separated my mother from me. It’s now eight years that my mother is not with us. I remember back on my first day in school when I was seven

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Amnesty International URGENT ACTION over treatment of Iran political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared

Amnesty International, 3 November 2016: Prisoner of conscience Maryam Akbari Monfared, who is serving a 15-year sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison, is being denied access to medical treatment. She is facing reprisals after filing a formal complaint that seeks an official investigation into the mass killings of political prisoners, including her siblings, in the summer of

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Statement by political prisoners in Gohardasht Prison on treatment of Maryam Akbari Monfared

A group of political prisoners from Gohardasht Prison in the Iranian city of Karaj have issued a statement on the regime’s mistreatment of fellow political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared over her call for an investigation into Iran’s 1988 massacre. The following is the full text of their statement:

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English translation of text of Maryam Akbari-Monfared’s follow up complaint sent to the Iranian Judiciary - 30 October 2016

English translation of text of Maryam Akbari-Monfared’s follow up complaint sent to the Iranian Judiciary – 30 October 2016

Follow up complaint by Maryam Akbari-Monfared Considering that I, Maryam Akbari-Monfared, a political prisoner incarcerated in Evin Prison, filed an official complaint on Saturday, 15 October 2016, with Tehran’s Public Prosecutor’s office seeking investigations into the execution of my sister and brother in 1988 and disclosure of the details, including identification of those responsible for

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Political prisoner files complaint with Tehran’s Prosecutor over 1988 massacre

Maryam Akbari Monfared, a political prisoner held in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, has written a letter of complaint to the Prosecutor General of Tehran over the arbitrary execution of her brother and sister during the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran. In a bold act from prison, Ms. Akbari Monfared on 15 October 2016

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Political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared: Four executed, two imprisoned and all the suffering of my family

The following is a letter by Maryam Akbari-Monfared on 16 October 2016: Autocratic and totalitarian regimes cannot tolerate any growing entity that inspires people to join it. Under such regimes physical and psychological tortures are among the main tools of suppression, and monitors who are aware don’t expect the accused to be able to defend

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