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Podcasts - 18th July 2011

Weekly Rights Podcast 30

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In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: more than 50 officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran have been put on visa restriction lists by the US and UK; the son of political prisoner Heshmatollah Tabarzadi tells the Campaign of concern for Tabarzadi’s health; Hossein Ronaghi Maleki’s father is concerned for his son’s health in prison; 25 prisoners were hanged in Ghezel Hessar Prison in another secret execution; a popular Iranian actor is arrested by security officials before going to Germany to participate in TV programs about the World Cup; Maryam Majd is suffering from digestive problems while in prison; Evin Prison officials have once again denied Nasrin Sotoudeh the right to see her children; and Protestant Christian pastor Youcef Nadarkhani’s court decision has been sent for reevaluation by the Supreme Court, but his apostasy charge will not be dropped.



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