Some Detained Reformist Telegram Channel Admins Released on Bail Until Trial
CHRI obtained an Instagram photo showing the minister posing ...
August 3, 2017
Rouhani’s Lost Battle: UN 2030 Education Guidelines
In 2015, Iran adopted educational guidelines from the UN 2030 agenda that could substantially improve access to education throughout the country. Two years later, a vicious smear campaign and opposition by the supreme leader has resulted in President Hassan Rouhani ...
August 3, 2017
Rouhani Could Appoint Surveillance Expert From Ahmadinejad Era to Telecommunications Ministry
Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi could become Iran’s new telecommunications ...
August 2, 2017
Teachers’ Rights Leader Returned to Prison Despite Judicial Official’s Furlough Pledge
Esmail Abdi’s Six-Year Sentence Influenced by IRGC The former secretary general of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association ...
August 1, 2017
Prominent Activists Defy State Ban on Visiting Hospitalized Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi
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August 1, 2017
Family, US Congress Convince Imprisoned US Permanent Resident to End Hunger Strike in Iran
Nizar Zakka “Under Intense Torture and Pressure” A Lebanese-born US permanent resident who was sentenced in September 2016 to 10 years imprisonment in Iran ended his ...
August 1, 2017
Student Imprisoned for Refusing to Spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Denied Visitation Rights
Imprisoned for refusing to spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, Hamid Babaei has been denied visitation rights at ...
July 31, 2017
Political Prisoners’ Letter to Foreign Ambassadors Who Went on Staged Tour of Evin Prison
Editor's Note: On July 5, 2017, dozens of foreign diplomats based in Iran went on a staged tour of Evin Prison designed ...
July 28, 2017
Police Arrest Peaceful Participants at Annual Commemoration for Popular Dissident Poet Ahmad Shamlu
Iranian police and security forces dispersed a gathering marking the 17th anniversary of popular poet Ahmad Shamlu’s...
July 27, 2017
Detained Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Recovering From Emergency Medical Procedure
Six Years Later, Karroubi Still Awaiting First Trial Former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, under extrajudicial house arrest since 2011, is recovering in the hospital after ...
July 27, 2017
Prisoners’ Families Plead for Stays of Executions Until Vote on Potentially Life-Saving Amendment
The families of prisoners facing imminent execution gathered in front of the judiciary’s headquarters in Tehran on July 26, 2017 to ...
July 27, 2017
Iran Shrugs Off US Demand for Release of Imprisoned Citizens
Iranian-American citizens ...
July 27, 2017
Telegram’s Efforts to Increase Download Speed in Iran Raises Questions
Placement of Telegram CDNs in Iran Requires Increased Transparency June 27, 2017—In light of the decision by the messaging application Telegram to use closed content ...
July 25, 2017
1,600 Teachers Demand Iran’s Judiciary Free Imprisoned Rights Activist
More than one thousand Iranian teachers have issued a statement calling for the release of a teacher imprisoned for peacefully advocating for teachers’ rights in the southern ...
July 25, 2017
Sufi Devotee With Heart Disease Denied “Urgent” Medical Care in Bandar Abbas Prison
Despite worsening heart disease, Mohammad Ali Shamshirzan, an imprisoned dervish of Iran’s Sufi Gonabadi Order in Hormozgan Province, ...
July 24, 2017
Sunni Council in Iran Suspends Operations Amid Ongoing Arrests and Intimidation
Dissident Sunni cleric ...
July 24, 2017
Downgraded Sentence for Teachers’ Rights Activist Issued Amid Ongoing Prosecution of Labor Leaders
Teachers' rights ...
July 22, 2017
Political Prisoners Including Swedish Resident Hidden from Ambassadors During Evin Prison Visit
Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali and his wife, Vida ...
July 22, 2017
Impoverished Children Without Identification Documents Deprived of Education in Iran
Children without state-issued identification documents mostly from Iran’s underdeveloped border provinces are being denied education in Iran, attorney Osman Mozayan told ...
July 22, 2017
Iranian State Censorship Body Blocks Websites Belonging to Persecuted Sufi Gonabadi Order
State authorities in Iran have blocked access to websites belonging to the Sufi Gonabadi Order to ...
July 22, 2017
Iran’s Telecommunications Minister Pledges To “Get Rid of” Foreign Social Media Despite Past Failed Attempts
President Hassan Rouhani’s Telecommunications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi has refuted criticism that he has been unwilling to block online content deemed immoral by ...
July 20, 2017
UNESCO 2030 Educational Guidelines Scrapped by Iran Include Essential Protective Measures Against Child Abuse
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July 18, 2017
Married Women in Iran Still Need “Permission” to Travel Abroad Under Amendment to Passport Law
Member of Parliament Parvaneh Salashouri (left) and human ...
July 18, 2017
Cartoon 171: Privacy in Iran
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July 18, 2017
Pro-Rouhani Journalist Tortured by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Acquitted of Anti-State Charges
More than two years after his arrest and torture by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reformist journalist Farzad Pourmoradi, a supporter ...