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August 8, 2019

Three Women Issued Lengthy Prison Sentences for Peacefully Protesting Iran’s Mandatory Hijab Law

Mojgan Keshavarz has been sentenced to 23.6 years in prison while Monireh Arabshahi and her daughter Yasaman Ariyani have each been sentenced to ...

August 7, 2019

More Iranians Forced to Rely on Unsafe Online Hosting After Amazon Ban

Amazon has become the latest major American technology company to block Iranians from accessing its products and services due to U.S. government sanctions that ...

August 6, 2019

Swedish-Iranian Scientist on Death Row Unexpectedly Moved to Undisclosed Location

Imprisoned Swedish-Iranian scientist Ahmadreza Djalali was transferred from Evin Prison’s Ward 7 to an undisclosed location on July 29, 2019, his wife, Vida Mehrannia, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on August ...

August 5, 2019

Judicial Official’s Defense of Mass Executions Sets Dangerous Precedent

Senior Advisor to Judiciary Asks Why the State Should Be Concerned with “Legal Matters” Pourmohammadi: “We still haven’t settled scores” August 5, 2019—New remarks ...

August 2, 2019

Blood Money Paid for a Woman in Iran Is Still Half That Paid for a Man, Despite New Ruling

Discriminatory Law Remains on the Books, New Law Just Has State Pay to Make Up Difference Following news in Iran on July 2, ...

August 2, 2019

Independent News Editor in “Terrible Shape” After One-Month Hunger Strike

Amirhossein Mohammadifar and his wife Sanaz Allahyari, also a journalist, began a hunger strike on July 3, ...

July 30, 2019

Iranian Heavy Metal Band Members Escape to Norway After Receiving Prison Sentences

Nikan Khosravi and Arash Ilkhani, members of the Iranian heavy metal band Confess, have left Iran to escape prosecution and prison ...

July 29, 2019

Detained Activist Sepideh Qoliyan Loses Consciousness During Hunger Strike

"Sepideh is Very Weak and Fragile and Cannot Walk," Says Father Activist and freelance journalist Sepideh Qoliyan (also known as Gholian) lost consciousness ...

July 24, 2019

Mohammad Rasoulof’s Films Were Banned in Iran, Now He’s Been Sentenced to Prison

“We have to pay a price, and every person will pay some price,” says acclaimed filmmaker July 24, 2019 – The sentencing of award-winning filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof to one year in prison for the content of his films ...

July 22, 2019

Kurdish-Iranian Political Prisoner Denied Hospitalization for Stomach Tumor 

Mohammad Nazari Has Been Imprisoned Since 1994 Imprisoned for more than 25 years, Kurdish-Iranian political prisoner Mohammad Nazari has been denied hospitalization ...

July 22, 2019

Iran’s State Broadcaster Discriminates against Women, People with Disabilities and Non-Muslims

IRIB’s New Job Posting Demands New Hires Be Male, Muslim and Without Disability In its latest job posting, the Iranian state broadcaster, the ...

July 22, 2019

Iran: Release Four Women Detained at Labor Day Protest

From left to ...

July 17, 2019

Jailed British Council Employee Says She Rejected “Explicit Invitation” to Spy for Iran

Aras Amiri is Serving a 10-Year Prison Sentence  Says She Was Imprisoned for Association with British Council Was Not Allowed to Use Chosen ...

July 16, 2019

Zaghari-Ratcliffe Transferred to Psychiatric Ward, Held Incommunicado

Revolutionary Guards Blocking Outside Contact, Says Free Nazanin Campaign   Imprisoned Iranian-British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held in the psychiatric ward of the ...

July 16, 2019

Iranian State Officials Use Derogatory Language against People with Disabilities

Stigmatization of Disability Perpetuated by Widespread Use of Insulting Language Despite years of effort by disability rights activists and NGOs to change societal ...

July 16, 2019

Brushing Off Security Concerns, Telecoms Minister Touts Iranian-Made Mobile Phone Operating System 

Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi announced on July 7, 2019, the development of an Iranian-made version of the Android operating system ...

July 12, 2019

Husband and Wife Journalists Hunger Strike to Break “Limbo” of Six-Month Detention

Imprisoned journalists Amirhossein Mohammadifar and Sanaz Allahyari, a married couple, have been on a wet hunger strike since July 4, 2019, in Tehran’s ...

July 9, 2019

Why Did Internet Access Speeds Slow to a Crawl in Iran?

Telecommunications Minister Falsely States the Problem Originated Outside the Country Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi made a false statement when he said ...

July 8, 2019

Parliament Faction Links Lacking Accountability to Deaths of Political Prisoners in State Custody

Defense Attorney: Firing Prison Officials Won’t Keep Political Prisoners Safe  One month after political prisoner Alireza Shirmohammadali was murdered in the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary (GTCP) after being unlawfully held in a ward with inmates convicted ...

July 6, 2019

Children’s Rights in Iran

At a time when international headlines are focused on Iran, little attention is given to the millions of children in the country who are subjected to a broad range of abuses and rights violations, including scant legal protection against physical or sexual violence, widespread child ...

July 2, 2019

Letter: Families Cite Seven Law Violations in Cases of Detained Wildlife Conservationists 

Iran’s judiciary has violated at least seven laws in its handling of the cases of eight wildlife conservationists who’ve been detained ...

June 26, 2019

VIDEO: 116 Iranian Rights Defenders Warn of “Devastating” Consequences of US-Iran Military Conflict

In response to soaring tensions between Iran and the United States, 116 Iranian human rights defenders and groups based inside and outside the country have signed a statement warning of the “devastating” consequences of a military conflict. The impact of military action on Iran would “lead ...

June 20, 2019

Abdolreza Kahani: “We are Born Into Censorship”

In Iran, the Ministry of Guidance and Islamic Culture imposes a strict process of review and approval for all screenplays before films can be legally ...

June 20, 2019

30 Tehran University Academics Call for Release of Detained Journalist Marzieh Amiri

Thirty scholars and researchers at the University of Tehran have called for the release of detained reporter Marzieh Amiri in a letter addressing Minister of ...

June 20, 2019

At Least 40 Detained in Connection With Protests at Ahvaz Sugar Mill

A group of workers of the Hafteh Tappeh sugar mill company in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, published a list of 40 names of colleagues and ...

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