In 2019, Khandan was charged in absentia with breaching national security and distributing anti-state propaganda, and was recalled to prison to carry out his sentence in 2024.
FREE REZAKhandan To the Government of Iran: We, the undersigned, call for the immediate release from prison of Reza Khandan, who was arrested by Iranian security forces on 13 December 2024.
Armita Garavand, the 17-year-old girl fatally injured in an alleged confrontation with Iran's morality police over a head-scarf violation, was buried amid tight security in Tehran on October 29.
Iranian activist Reza Khandan, the husband of a jailed prominent human rights lawyer, has been sentenced to six years in prison, his lawyer and local media say.
Baktash Abtin, Keyvan Bajan, and Reza Khandan Mahabadi are three celebrated Iranian writers who were sentenced to a collective 15 years in prison for their free expression advocacy.
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (Ibahri) condemns the issuance of a summons for Iranian civil activist Reza Khandan to begin a six-year prison sentence that was handed down in 2018 for a Facebook post published in…