MSF has been responding to emergencies in Iran for nearly 30 years; they began working in Iran in 1991 and, since that time, they have responded to several emergencies, including in 2003 after the earthquake that struck Bam.
MSF also responded in 2019 when flooding hit several of the country’s provinces, including Lorestan, Golestan and Khuzestan.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, MSF teams are currently responding in Italy, supporting three hospitals in the most affected areas in the country's north. In France and Belgium, they are supporting efforts to detect and manage COVID-19 cases among vulnerable populations such as homeless people, migrants and unaccompanied minors. In Spain, MSF is collaborating with authorities in order to increase case management capacities.

Akmali was sentenced in November on charges of propaganda against the regime, in Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh.

Mustafa Karimbeigi, Akmali’s son, was one of the protesters killed in December 2009 protests against the disputed presidential election result earlier that year. He was killed by security forces near Enqelab Square in Tehran.

In a video given to IranWire before reporting for her sentence, Akmali speaks directly to the Iranian people, saying: "After killing Mustafa and interrogating us nine days later, the security forces brought Mustafa's body to the cemetery for burial. When I was carrying my son's coffin, I promised him to be his voice. I did not want to just sit at home and cry. I contacted the families of others who were also killed. I visited them, sorrowing with them, and said we should continue the work of our children. I became the mother of everyone who was shouting, I became the mother of [activist and political prisoner] Arash Sadeghi; the mother of all Iranian activist youth."

"They killed my child,” Akmali adds, “so I tried to be the mother of thousands of other young men and young women. I am going to jail for being the mother of all activists."

Akmali also said in a recent tweet that: "I take my son's picture with me to prison because I know it gives me a strong heart. I am a mother whose crime is wanting justice and asking a simple question that was never answered: who killed my son?"

"Thanks to everyone who has stood with my family. We are relatives and we have no shelter. Keep your hope for good days in the future."

The Ministry of Intelligence in the government of then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not allow Mustafa Karimbeigi’s family to bury him in Tehran. The family was was forced to bury their son in the cemetery of Joqin, a suburb of Shahriar, on the outskirts of Tehran.
SOURCE: IranWire
https://iranwire.com/en/features/6625

همانطور که در خبرها و گزارشها ملاحظه کرده اید, در روزگاری که بشر به بلوغ فکری خود افتخار میکند سال هاست متاسفانه شاهد تبعیض ها و کشتارها در کشور میانمار علیه گروه اقلیت مسلمان هستیم ولی فجایع و جنایات اخیر علیه این گروه, بخصوص علیه کودکان بی دفاع و زنان, که تا این لحظه به کشته شدن بیش از هزار نفر و آوارگی بیش از یکصدوپنجاه هزار انسان انجامیده, موجب خشم و نفرت انسانهای آزاده و جریحه دار شدن روح وجدانهای بیدار در .سراسر جهان شده است

Hanika Ghaderi's husband, businessman Kamran Ghaderi, was initially detained in Tehran in January but his conviction and sentence for espionage and cooperation with the United States were revealed earlier this week.

"How can they say something like that about Kamran? I don't understand," Ghaderi's wife said, adding that he had no ties to the United States and was not involved in politics.

She said the family is planning to appeal the sentence.

Tehran Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said on October 18 that the 52-year-old Ghaderi was among six individuals who received 10-year sentences for what he described as spying and working with the hostile government in Washington. The others include 80-year-old Iranian-American Baquer Namazi and his son Siamak Namazi, Farhad Abd-Saleh, Alireza Omidvar, and Nizar Zakka.

Ghaderi is the CEO of Avanoc, an IT management and consulting company that has worked in Iran for many years, his wife told Radio Farda.
"Everything he's [been] doing is legal," she added.

Hanika Ghaderi said her husband was among a number of Austrian businessmen and companies at an official Austrian-Iranian trade meeting in Tehran in 2015 that was attended by senior officials, including former Austrian President Heinz Fischer.
"He was working in Iran; it's not forbidden," she said.

She said Ghaderi, a father of three, was detained during a business trip to Iran and was being held at Tehran's notorious Evin prison.

The family did not publicize the case at the time on advice from Ghaderi's lawyer, she said, adding that he had assured them that her husband would be released.
Bu the prison sentence has prompted her to speak out in the media.

Her husband was allowed to call his mother in April for the first time since his arrest, she said. Since then, she added, Ghaderi's mother has been allowed to visit him in prison every second week.

Ghaderi's wife said that her husband has lost a lot of weight since his arrest.

Under the original ruling handed down on 13 April, Fathi was sentenced to 444 lashes (to be administered in six sessions of 74 lashes) on charges of defamation and publishing false information. In its 12 July ruling, the appeal court confirmed the decision to flog Fathi but modified the sentence. It sentenced him to three sessions of 77 lashes for defamation and three sessions of 76 lashes for publishing false information – for an increased total of 459 lashes.

But the appeal court added that only the second sentence (three sessions of 76 lashes) will be administered in accordance with article 134 of the new Islamic penal code (as amended in 2013), which says that when a defendant is given more than one sentence on criminal charges, only the sentence corresponding to the gravest charge is implemented.

“This sentence, which was issued while he was imprisoned, seems to be the enforcement of a suspended sentence he had previously received, but the details are not clear,” said the prominent human rights lawyer. “These cases [against political prisoners] are handled unlawfully and the authorities don’t allow the lawyer or even the condemned person to access their file.”

Zaim, a leading member of the banned National Front, one of Iran’s oldest secular opposition parties, was arrested on July 16, 2016 and handed a four-year prison sentence a week later on July 23 without his lawyer’s knowledge. The pro-democracy activist was previously arrested on multiple occasions for his peaceful activities; he was detained for 47 days in 2006, 91 days in 2009 and 27 days in 2011.

In April 2012 Zaim was sentenced to three years in prison and banned from political and media activities for five years for “acting against national security” and “propaganda against the state” by Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh of Branch 14 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, but the prison sentence was suspended for five years by the Appeals Court because of his old age.

Zaim was put on trial again on August 1, 2015 for “propaganda against the state” and sentenced to one year in prison by Judge Abolqasem Salavati of Branch 15 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. 

“We filed an appeal against the one-year sentence, but Mr. Zaim was arrested again before the Appeals Court issued a final ruling. He also had a three-year suspended sentence. They seem to have combined his prison sentences and put them into effect,” Pourafzal told the Campaign. “In any case, we believe that their action is unlawful. His prison sentence [issued in 2015] was for a year, at most, and we had requested that he be freed as soon as possible considering the time he has already spent in prison and his inability to tolerate prison conditions in his advanced age,”

Zaim, who has written and translated many books on Iranian politics, was persecuted by the Pahlavi dynasty as well the Islamic Republic for his activities with the National Front. The group, founded by ousted former Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and other secular politicians in the 1940s, became an ally of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini one year before the 1979 revolution, but was banned in 1981 for opposing theocratic rule.

Giti Pourfazel, a prominent human rights lawyer, announced her retirement in July 2016 but is still handling the cases that were in process prior to her announcement.