August 31, 2016

Hackers Exploit Android Phone Security Flaw to Target Activists

Suspected state-sponsored hackers have intensified their attempts to break into the online accounts of Iranian rights activists in recent weeks by exploiting security ...

August 29, 2016

Unjustly Imprisoned Young Physicist Granted Conditional Release After Five Years

Omid Kokabee’s Release Comes After Months Struggling with Kidney Cancer That Was Left Untreated in Prison August 29, 2016—Imprisoned Iranian scientist Omid Kokabee...

August 29, 2016

Recording on 1988 Prison Massacre Exposes Early Fissure in the Islamic Republic of Iran

The recently released audio recording of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri sharply denouncing the mass execution of political prisoners in ...

August 29, 2016

Judiciary Blocking Compensation for False Arrests

High Number of False Arrests Would Require Large Payout More than a year after Iran’s new Code of ...

August 24, 2016

Overcoming Obstacles: Leila Vaziri & the Nine Female Olympians from Iran

What does it take for a woman to overcome the challenges and make it to the Olympics? Watch world champion Leila Varizi in this video and join the Campaign in saluting the 9 Iranian women who made it to the ...

August 22, 2016

Elderly Pro-Democracy Activist Sentenced to Four Years in Prison

The four-year prison sentence handed down to imprisoned author and peaceful political activist Kourosh Zaim has no legal basis and the 77-year-old should be immediately released because of his advanced age, his lawyer ...

August 22, 2016

Nasrin Sotoudeh: “Hardliners are trying to open a new case against me”

Prominent Human Rights Lawyer is Summoned to Court Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer and former political prisoner, has been summoned to appear at Branch 28 of ...

August 22, 2016

Prominent Labor Activist’s Wife Awaits Verdict for Alleged Facebook Post

Najibeh Salehzadeh was never shown the “evidence” Najibeh Salehzadeh, who says she was falsely charged for posting “insulting” material on Facebook, ...

August 18, 2016

Reformist Journalist’s Prison Sentence Reduced on Appeal

The prison sentence of reformist journalist Ehsan (Saman) Safarzaei has been reduced from five to two years, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned. ...

August 17, 2016

Cartoon 153: Silencing Montazeri

Following publication of the audio file of a 1988 meeting in which the late Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri admonished Sharia judges and officials ...

August 16, 2016

Imprisoned Epileptic Journalist Denied Request for Early Release

Reformist Writer Has Not Had Access to His Lawyer Since 2014 Imprisoned reformist journalist Ahmad Asgari, who suffers from severe epilepsy, has been ...

August 16, 2016

Charges Against Iranian-American Reflect Iran’s Lasting Paranoia over Mass Protests of 2009

Detained Iranian-American Robin (Reza) Shahini has been formally charged with “acting against national security,” “participating in protest ...

August 16, 2016

Rights groups condemn recent execution of Kurdish prisoners and call for an immediate moratorium on all executions in Iran

Geneva - Iranian authorities must immediately put a halt to the execution of Kurdish political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, 22 human rights organizations stated. These ...

August 16, 2016

Sunni Cleric Charged with Anti-State Activities for Criticizing Mass Execution

Hassan Amini, a Sunni cleric and Islamic judge based in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, has been interrogated ...

August 16, 2016

Android Phone Users in Iran Face New Threat by Hackers

Popular Telegram App Remains Main Target Hackers posing as friends are using phone numbers based in the ...

August 15, 2016

Rouhani Battles Religious Hardliners Over Concert Cancellations in Iran

A simmering battle between the government of President Hassan Rouhani and hardline religious figures over music concerts is playing out in northeastern ...

August 12, 2016

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Tries to Hide Evidence of Massacre of Thousands of Political Prisoners in 1988

Recording of Ayatollah Montazeri’s Plea to Stop the Executions is Taken Off Website An audio file of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri—the once successor to Iran’s first supreme ...

August 12, 2016

Man Imprisoned for Facebook Posts Seeks Reduced Sentence

Soheil Arabi, whose death sentence for “insulting the prophet” was struck down by Iran’s Supreme Court in 2015 but remains imprisoned ...

August 10, 2016

Five Prisoners Hanged in Iran in Accelerating Rate of Executions

Hangings Follow Twenty Prisoners Executed Last Week Five prisoners were hanged inside Iran’s Orumiyeh Central Prison ...

August 9, 2016

Mother of Executed Iranian Scientist Describes Last Visit With Son Day Before His Death

Marzieh Amiri: “I had kept silent only for the sake of my son.” The mother of Shahram Amiri, the Iranian nuclear ...

August 8, 2016

Cartoon 152: Executions in Iran

Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyestani's take on the recent surge in prison executions in Iran....

August 8, 2016

Anti-Pollution Initiative Stymied by Ban on Women Riding Bicycles in Public

Women’s rights activists and environmentalists joined forces in the city of Marivan, in Iran’s Kurdistan Province, after a local anti-pollution initiative encouraging people to ...

August 5, 2016

Names of Mass Execution Victims in Iran Still Not Released

Only 10 of the 20 Sunni Prisoners Killed Are Identified by Authorities Iran is withholding the names of ten of the twenty ...

August 3, 2016

Radical Iranian Newspaper Suspended for Lewd Sexual Slurs against Actors

The weekly Ya Lesarat, the official publication of the ultraconservative vigilante group Ansar-e Hezbollah, has been suspended by Iran’s Press Oversight Committee for ...

August 2, 2016