The Supreme Administrative Court in Tehran has blocked an agreement by the speaker of Parliament and the head of the judiciary to reinstate Sepanta Niknam, a member of the Zoroastrian faith, to the Yazd City Council ...
In an overwhelming sign of international support for human rights in Iran, 83 countries approved a resolution by the UN Third Committee today criticizing the state of human rights in the Islamic Republic ...
The governor of Tehran Province, Mohammad Hossein Moghimi, has erroneously declared that since President Hassan Rouhani took office in 2013, protests in Iran’s capital city have been tolerated without the use of force ...
Passing legislation to restrict the rights of religious minorities in Iran would violate their rights as equal citizens, a prominent reformist ...
EU Parliamentary Delegation Going to Iran Should Use Its Leverage to Engage Iran on Human Rights November 14, 2017—European governments’ blithe disregard for mounting human rights violations ...
The town of Sarpol-e Zahab one day after the earthquake ...
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry and the chief prosecutor of Kurdistan Province have refused to accept a medical examiner’s recommendation to hospitalize imprisoned labor activist Mahmoud Salehi, the Center for ...
Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi’s Twitter page. Officials ...
An Iranian activist who has been seeking justice for her parents murdered by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in 1998, will ...
Three young Iranians who complained to state officials after being denied university education for being followers of the Baha’i faith have been sentenced ...
Three human rights activists held in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Iran have written a letter urging international rights groups to help fellow political prisoner Majid Assadi, who has been denied outside medical treatment despite severe health problems ...
Hackers working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) targeted journalists based abroad with a malware campaign launched on November 6, 2017 ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has condemned the recent suspension of a Zoroastrian member of a city council as “illegal” and asked the supreme leader to intervene in the growing dispute that has highlighted divisions within the state ...
Imprisoned labor activist Mahmoud Salehi remains in intensive care three days after being rushed from a prison in ...
Poet and civil rights activist Reza Ekvanyan has been sentenced to three years in prison and 40 lashes for the charges of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting the sacred” by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, presided by Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh ...
The relatives of three alleged members of a banned Kurdish separatist organization in Iran have been sentenced to prison after being accused of ...
In her first interview since being released from Evin Prison on October 31, 2017, Baha’i faith leader Fariba Kamalabadi said Baha’is “love” Iran and want to “serve” their country. “There have been a lot of reports about the ...
Suspended Zoroastrian Councilman at Center of Debate The head of Iran’s judiciary has sided with proponents of banning religious minorities from local elections while ...
Alleged drug traffickers stand in front of narcotics after a police operation. Thousands of ...
A website serving as a mouthpiece for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has attempted to justify the criminal investigation launched ...
Labor activist Mahmoud Salehi was detained by security agents on October 28, 2017, while undergoing dialysis at ...
A judge in Iran is refusing to order a psychological evaluation to determine the maturity level of ...
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Mohammad Nazari has been imprisoned since 1994. More than 700 ...
Alireza Golipour has been imprisoned since 2012 for allegedly passing on information about Iran's Natanz nuclear site ...
