Congressional Reaserch Service, IRAN,U.S.Concerns and Policy Responses:

• " ... Amir Abbas Fakhravar. A leader of the student dissidents who emerged in the July 1999 anti-regime students riots. A former medical student, he served time in Iranian prisons. ... " ( October 11, 2007 )

US State Department report on Iran's Human Rights :

  " In 2004 AI reported that it had documented evidence of "white torture," a form of sensory deprivation. Amir Abbas Fakhravar, a political prisoner, was sent to the "125" detention center, controlled by the revolutionary guards. According to AI his cell had no windows, and the walls and his clothes were white. His meals consisted of white rice on white plates. To use the toilet, he had to put a white piece of paper under the door. He was forbidden to speak, and the guards reportedly wore shoes that muffled sound. The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture listed sensory deprivation among the techniques constituting torture."

• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Iran, March 6, 2007

• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Iran, March 8, 2006

• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices Iran, February 28, 2005

•  IRAN Voices Struggling to Be Heard  February 24, 2004

International Pen :

• Pen International, Day of The Imprisond Writer ( November 15, 2004 )

• Pen Canada, Honorary Member ( February 2004 )

• English Pen, Honorary Member ( November 2004 )

• English PEN, Prisoner of the month ( February, 2004 )

• Norsk Pen, Day of The Imprisond Writer ( February 15, 2004 )

• IFEX, New revelations of torture in Zahra Kazemi case

• PEN Canada, Bulletin ( April, 2005 ) 

• The Assembly of Delegates of International PEN, meeting at its 70th Congress in Tromsø, Norway, 6th – 12th September 2004

• PEN SWEDEN, International PEN Writers in Prison Committee, CASE LIST (July to Dec.2003)

• 71st. Pen International Conference on Iran, (Alfabet Maxima, Kongereye 71 Ghalam)

• The Assembly of Delegates of International PEN, meeting at its 71th Congress in Beld, Slovenia, 14th - 21th June 2005

• PEN Canada, Akbar Ganji released from prison

• PEN UK, Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2004, Amir Abbas Fakhravar

• International PEN , Day of the Imprisoned Writer 2004, Amir Abbas Fakhravar, Nov. 2004

International Press :

• Overseas Press Club of America, Freedom of The Press Committee, April 21, 2004

• International Press Institute, World Press Freedom Review, 2004     

Amnesty International & Human Rights :

• Amnesty International( February 13, 2004 )

• Amnesty International -UK ( March 25, 2004 )

• Amnesty international in asia & the pacific, March 25, 2004

• IFEX - International Freedom of Expression eXchange

• Petition Online 

• Victims of Political Islam 

• New York Academy of Sciences - Human Rights , April 14, 2003

• New York Academy of Sciences - Human Rights, March 18, 2003 

• Committee of Concerned Scientists, 2004

• Network for Education and Academic Rights, March 17, 2004

Fakhravar, a medical student and a journalist for the now-banned pro-reform dailies "Mosharekat" and "Khordad", has been detained for over a year, during which time he has suffered persistent and severe ill-treatment. He was first arrested on 10 November 2002 and sentenced to eight years in prison for criticising the supreme leadership of Iran in his book "Inja Chah Nist" ("This Place is Not a Ditch"), which was short-listed for the 2001/2002 Paulo Coelho Literary Prize.