December 8, 2016

Rights Activist Sentenced to 15 Years Imprisonment in Critical Condition After 45-Day Hunger Strike

Civil rights defender Arash Sadeghi, who is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence for his peaceful activism, is in “critical ...

December 8, 2016

Iranian Government Subdues Politically Charged Student Day With “Happy Shows”

Since its 1979 revolution, Iran’s Student Day has been marked with passionate speeches given in a less restrained political atmosphere on university campuses. But this year the ...

December 8, 2016

Briefing: Iran’s Fashion Industry is the Latest Victim of Khamenei’s War on Western Culture

December 7, 2016

Former Italian Ambassador to Iran Denounces Detention of Iranian-American Dual National and Wife

“Much more is at stake than the personal freedom of two outstanding, patriotic Iranian citizens,” says Ambassador In a public letter the former Italian Ambassador ...

December 6, 2016

Anti-Riot Forces Violently Attack Peacefully Protesting Tehran Bus Union Members

Members of one of Iran’s oldest unions who were peacefully demanding their past due housing allowances and other benefits in front of the Tehran Municipality ...

December 5, 2016

Iranian Lawyer and Writers Beaten and Arrested at Commeration of Murders of Political Dissidents in 1990s

Police and plainclothes security agents arrested a prominent human rights lawyer and several members of the Writers Association of Iran at a commemoration event for ...

December 4, 2016

Rights Activist Files Complaint Against Revolutionary Guard Agents for Excessive Force

Agents Attacked Atena Daemi and Her Sister and Used Pepper Spray When Taking Her into Custody The young human rights activist ...

December 4, 2016

Iranian Official Arrested for Supporting Release of Imprisoned Human Rights Activist

Director in Qazvin Governor’s office asks friends online to support Narges Mohammadi Alireza Rahmani, the director of public relations for the governor’s office in ...

December 2, 2016

Sister Breaks the Silence Over Iranian-American and Wife Held for Three Months Without Charge or Counsel

Case fabricated “for the purpose of extortion and property seizure” says US-based family member* December 2, 2016—Karan Vafadari, an Iranian-American national belonging to the Zoroastrian faith, ...

December 1, 2016

German-Iranian Assistant for Berlin Film Festival Barred from Leaving Iran

The dual national translator for a prestigious film festival was prevented from boarding a flight to Germany at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport and her passport confiscated as she ...

November 29, 2016

Women’s Rights Activist Arrested After Attending Workshop in Georgia

Twenty Others Who Attended Women’s Empowerment Workshop Also Questioned Photographer and women’s right activist Alieh Matlabzadeh has been undergoing interrogation in Evin Prison since November 26 ...

November 29, 2016

Judiciary and Parliament Clash Over MP’s Questions on Judiciary Chief’s Banking Activities

State Funds Deposited into the Bank Account of Sadegh Larijani At Issue After avoiding a summons for days, Member of Parliament Mahmoud Sadeghi appeared ...

November 29, 2016

Sedigheh Moradi Freed from Prison after Serving Five Years “for Nothing”

Appeals Court Throws Away Conviction “The judge looked at my file and ordered my unconditional release. It didn’t even take 10 minutes,” said ...

November 29, 2016

Imprisoned Human Rights Activist to Sue IRGC Agents for Violent and Illegal Arrest

Atena Daemi Taken to Evin Prison’s Women’s Ward To Begin Seven-Year Sentence Human rights activist Atena Daemi, 29, was taken into ...

November 29, 2016

Momentum Growing to End Iran’s Death Sentences for Drug Offenses

Fast-Tracked Amendment Pending in Parliament, Must Still be Approved by Guardian Council On November 23, 2016, Iran’s Parliament agreed to speed up deliberation on an amendment which, ...

November 28, 2016

Shocking Montazeri Sentence Reveals a Prosecution Lacking Legal or Moral Legitimacy

Ahmad Montazeri Will Appeal "Ugly" Six-Year Prison Sentence The six-year prison sentence handed down to Ahmad Montazeri for publishing ...

November 25, 2016

Missing Spiritual Leader’s Supporters Beaten by Plainclothes Intelligence Agents at Iran’s Parliament

Approximately 50 followers of imprisoned spiritual leader Mohammad Ali Taheri—who has been missing for more than a month—were ...

November 23, 2016

Political Prisoner With Suspended Sentence Remains Detained While Same Judge Reviews Case

Iran’s Supreme Court has suspended the 15-year prison sentence of ailing political prisoner Hadi Ghaemi and referred it to the Appeals Court, but the ...

November 22, 2016

Iranian MP Compares Prosecutor’s Abrupt Cancellation of His Speech to ISIS Tactics

Following the abrupt cancellation of his speech by a prosecutor, the Iranian Parliament’s Deputy Speaker Ali Motahhari has written to the president calling for an ...

November 21, 2016

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Must Stop Using Dual-Nationals as Hostages

British Government Accused of Putting Business Interest Above Protecting Its Citizens November 21, 2016—Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei should put an immediate end to the practice of the Revolutionary Guard’s Intelligence ...

November 21, 2016

Activist Who Lost Parents in “Chain Murders” of Iranian Dissidents Summoned to Court

Prominent rights activist Parastou Forouhar, whose parents were slain by agents of the Iranian government during a series of murders of dissidents beginning in the ...

November 21, 2016

Editor Says He Was Wrongly Sentenced to Prison for Posting MP’s Sexist Comments Online

MP Nader Ghazipour Has Also Assaulted a Journalist Hamed Ataee, a news editor from northwestern Iran who has been sentenced to four months in prison for posting a ...

November 18, 2016

Supreme Court to Review Case of Ailing Political Prisoner

Iran’s Supreme Court has agreed to review the case of political prisoner Rayhaneh Haj Ebrahim Dabbagh, who became ...

November 18, 2016

Rouhani Has Done Nothing to Free Political Prisoners and Is Being Called out for It

A prominent Iranian political analyst has criticized President Hassan Rouhani for reneging on his pledge to free political prisoners and opposition leaders. The centrist ...

November 18, 2016