It has been days since there has been any news of Mohammad Nourizad; days since the three minute trial in which he was insulted and his prison sentence increased. With no one else to turn to, Nourizad’s family have now written a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, referencing a young girl who long ago had the courage to ... ادامه متن »

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian authorities on Thursday detained family members of an imprisoned documentary filmmaker after they showed up outside a Tehran prison to inquire about his reportedly failing health, an opposition website said. nurizad.net said the wife of filmmaker Mohammad Nourizad then had to be taken to the hospital because she felt sick immediately after being detained. Nourizad’s son, ... ادامه متن »

Jailed Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Nourizad has been hospitalized and members of his family including his wife have been detained, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. Nourizad’s wife Fateme Maleki, their children, and his elderly parents were detained outside Evin prison on December 16 as they tried to find out which hospital he had been taken to. Maleki told Radio Farda minutes before ... ادامه متن »

Mohammad Nourizad –  imprisoned writer, filmmaker and blogger – in an open letter addressed to the head of the judiciary while explaining a small part of the brutal and inhuman treatments of the agents and interrogators of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic against the political prisoners urged him to come to his senses and make his conscious ... ادامه متن »

He was once again taken to prison (“called” to go to prison, as is customary these days), for writing a sixth, and according to him, final, letter to the leader. Here I have translated an interview he did before heading to Evin. This interview was published on his own website, so maybe more than an interview, these are simply things ... ادامه متن »

An interesting letter of Nourizad, a famous Iranian political prisoner, to Iran’s Dictator Original letter is in Farsi. Here is a brief translation. ادامه متن »

He was once again taken to prison (“called” to go to prison, as is customary these days), for writing a sixth, and according to him, final, letter to the leader. Here I have translated an interview he did before heading to Evin. This interview was published on his own website, so maybe more than an interview, these are simply things ... ادامه متن »