10 Years Later, This Baha’i Manufacturer is Still Fighting to Claim His Business in Iran
Payam Vali’s manufacturing business was shuttered ...
June 1, 2018
Iranians Complain of Fake Accounts Created in Their Names on State-Approved Soroush App
The CEO of Iran’s Soroush messaging app, Meysam ...
June 1, 2018
Oxford PhD Student Denied Legal Counsel 40 Days After Being Arrested in Iran
Father Claims IRGC’s Intelligence Organization is Cooking Up Case Against His Activist Son Reformist political activist Mohammadreza Jalaeipour, an Oxford ...
June 1, 2018
107 Iranian Film Personalities Urge Rouhani to Lift State Ban on Pre-Revolution Actor
More than 100 Iranian artists and movie industry personalities have urged President Hassan Rouhani to lift the state ban ...
June 1, 2018
Iranian Cleric Under Seven-Year House Arrest Says Only Death Will Bring Him Freedom
Former Presidential Candidate Mehdi Karroubi Detained in His Home Without Trial Since 2011 An Iranian cleric and former presidential candidate who has been restricted ...
June 1, 2018
Iranian Celebrities Shun President Rouhani’s Ramadan Dinner Invitation
Several Iranian celebrities publicly turned down President Hassan Rouhani’s invitation to attend a Ramadan “iftar” dinner scheduled for May ...
May 31, 2018
15 Arrested at Aborted Talks Over Water Dispute in Southwestern Iran
Fifteen negotiators representing protesting farmers in the southern Iranian province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad were arrested on May 29, 2018, as ...
May 30, 2018
10 Iranian HEPCO Workers Striking For Unpaid Wages Charged With “Disturbing Public Order”
Ten striking workers at Iran's Heavy Equipment Production Company (HEPCO) in the city of Arak, south of Tehran, were charged with ...
May 29, 2018
Iranian Education Ministry’s Job Requirements Prevent People With Disabilities From Applying
Iran’s Education Ministry is violating Iranian law and the country’s commitments to the UN Convention on the ...
May 29, 2018
50 Years Later, Iranian Security Forces Are Still Trying to Silence the Iranian Writers Association
Police and security forces blocked an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the anti-censorship Iranian Writers Association ...
May 29, 2018
Wave of Baha’i Arrests in Iran Raises Alarm at Faith’s UN Office
The Baha'i International Community (BIC) at the United Nations has expressed alarm over a spate of arrests of Baha’i ...
May 25, 2018
Two Confirmed Killed and 48 Injured in May 2018 Protests in Kazeroon
Bullets fired by police in the city of Kazeroon, Fars Province, killed two men—Ali Mohammadian and Azad Omid Reza Yousefian—during ...
May 25, 2018
Sufi Bus Driver on Death Row in Iran Denies Killing Policemen in Audio File Released by Lawyer
Mohammad Salas’ Attorney Zeynab Taheri Summoned to Court to Face Charges The lawyer of Tehran-based death row prisoner Mohammad Salas...
May 25, 2018
Ahmadreza Djalali: An Iranian Swedish Scientist Behind Bars in Iran
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May 24, 2018
Hardline Judge Orders Zaghari-Ratcliffe to Hire Different Lawyer After Issuing New Charge
Imprisoned Dual National Allowed to Speak to UK Ambassador for First Time After being told she is facing the charge of “propaganda against the ...
May 23, 2018
Iranian VP Refutes Espionage Claims Against Detained Environmentalists, Calls for Their Release
The head of Iran’s Department of Environment (DOE), Vice President Isa Kalantari, has publicly rejected claims by hardline judicial officials and ...
May 22, 2018
Iran’s Telegram Users Back on the Rise Three Weeks After State Banned the App
Iranian Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has revealed that the number of Telegram users ...
May 21, 2018
In the Media
May 18, 2018
Iran Tightens Internet Censorship by Requiring Government Agencies to Use State-Approved Search Engines
After banning the widely used Telegram messaging app, the Iranian government is once again ...
May 18, 2018
Iranian Judge Prosecutes Political Prisoner Without a Lawyer, Sentences Him to Five More Years
Political prisoner Mohammad Ali (Pirooz) Mansouri, eligible for conditional release after spending more ...
May 17, 2018
Sufi Bus Driver Sentenced to Death in Iran Says He Confessed to Killing Policemen While Under Torture
A Sufi bus driver who was sentenced to death in Iran for running over three policeman ...
May 17, 2018
Iranian Canadian’s Widow Maryam Mombeini Hospitalized Two Months After Being Banned From Leaving Iran
The wife of an Iranian Canadian academic who died in Iranian custody under suspicious circumstances in February 2018 was hospitalized for three days after exhibiting symptoms of a ...
May 16, 2018
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Case Re-Opened Ahead of UK Foreign Secretary’s Meeting With Iranian Officials
The Mother of a Toddler Has Been Serving a Five-Year Prison Sentence Since 2016 Already serving a five-year prison sentence...
May 16, 2018
Tehran International Book Fair Features Anti-Baha’i Literature by State-Funded Groups
State-funded publishers at Iran’s May 2018 Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) were permitted to offer dozens of books disparaging ...
May 16, 2018
Iran: Little Progress to Show UN on Disability Rights
Iran is facing a looming deadline to present its response to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with ...