Political parties and factions in Iran should promote more women candidates in the country’s local council elections to improve gender equality, Sedigheh Vasmaghi, ...
Issa Saharkhiz Facing New Trial Reformist political commentator Issa Saharkhiz and former political activist Navid Kamran were released ...
In a surprising development, a few outspoken and prominent political activists have been approved to run in Iran’s elections for city and village councils on May 19, 2017. However, many well-known activists and reformists have been arbitrarily disqualified. ...
Supreme Court Upholds Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Five-Year Prison Sentence The husband of Nazanin-Zaghari Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British citizen imprisoned in Iran since April ...
The Guardian Council’s attempt to ban religious minorities from running in Iran’s nationwide local council elections on May 19, 2017 is unlawful ...
Payam Shakiba, a political science graduate student at Tehran’s Allameh Tabataba’i University, has been held in solitary confinement in Evin Prison’s ...
Ahmadreza Jalali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident detained in Evin Prison since April 2016, has been ...
In the run-up to Iran’s May 19, 2017 presidential election, a Sunni Muslim former member of Parliament has renewed his call ...
Iran’s judiciary has ordered internet companies to block the Telegram messaging application’s newly released “Voice Calls” ...
Women's rights advocate Nahid Tavasoli is the editor-in-chief of Nafe, an academic women’s periodical. The low number of female participants in Iranian elections is an indicator of inequality ...
Iranian media outlets have been ordered to stop reporting on former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s third presidential campaign for the ...
The presidential bid of ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi has been strongly criticized by supporters of human rights. In 1988, Raisi was appointed to a special ...
Imprisoned children and human rights activist Atena Daemi has been stricken with ...
Prominent political activist, Azam Taleghani, 72, makes ...
The candidacy of Ebrahim Raisi in Iran’s May 19 presidential election ...
Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and former political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh has ...
After disqualifying the initial reformist winner, Iran’s conservative Guardian Council has now barred most reformist candidates from running in the second-round election for ...
Former political activist Majid Asadi has been detained without charge in Evin Prison’s Ward 209 under the ...
Ebrahim Raisi Was Member of “Death Commissions” that Ordered Extrajudicial Killings of Thousands of Prisoners in 1988 April 14, 2017–The candidacy ...
Abbas Lesani, an Azeri ethnic rights activist, is being tried for advocating state recognition of his mother tongue and making ...
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A month before Iranians head to the polls for the presidential and council elections, a heated exchange between the judiciary and ...
Imprisoned civil rights advocate Atena Daemi has started a wet hunger strike to protest new sentences issued against ...
Mohammadi: Imprisonment Makes Me More “Determined” Imprisoned human rights defender Narges Mohammadi has been offered temporary release if she promises to be ...
Molavi Fazl al-Rahman Kouhi, an outspoken Sunni cleric in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan Province, was released from detention on $31,000 USD ...
