Iranian VP Summoned to Judiciary for Commenting on High Execution Rate of Drug Traffickers
Shahindokht Mowlaverdi, Iran’s vice president for Women and Family Affairs, has been summoned to the Judiciary to explain a comment she ...
Shahindokht Mowlaverdi, Iran’s vice president for Women and Family Affairs, has been summoned to the Judiciary to explain a comment she ...
In this new video, the Campaign asks Iranians from all walks of life inside and outside Iran to share their hopes and expectations of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani for the ...
Status of Case and Charges against Her Remain Unknown Concern is growing for the well-being of newspaper columnist Afarin Chitsaz...
Two weeks have passed since Minoo Khaleghi’s election to Parliament in Iran’s recent elections was ...
Fundamental Changes in Content Delivery: Opportunities and Challenges On the first day of the RightsCon conference, hundreds of participants from around the world shared their insights on various ...
Phones of Film Star and Others in Gathering Illegally Confiscated by Police Hedieh Tehrani, a film star and animal rights activist, was arrested and ...
Rouhieh Safajoo, a student banned from Iranian universities because of her Baha’i faith and arrested for her online activism, was released on March 27, ...
Prisoner of conscience Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been on a wet hunger strike since March 26, 2016 to ...
Political prisoner Mostafa Azizi, one of many émigrés who returned to Iran following assurances of ...
Letter Comes To Light Three Years after Brutal Physical Abuse of Detained Baha’is Details of torture inflicted upon twelve Baha’is by interrogators ...
In a video message on the occasion of the Persian New Year, Norooz, prominent Iranian musician Mohammad Reza Shajarian announced his 15-year battle with cancer. One ...
Gholam-Hossein Khaledi, an Iranian park ranger sentenced to death for killing a poacher in 2010, was released on March 18, 2016 after paying 12 billion ...
Reformists Call on Rouhani to Stop Hardliners from Blocking Elected Candidates March 24, 2016—The reformist MP Minoo Khaleghi, newly elected to Parliament from ...
Severe health problems are keeping prisoner of conscience Issa Saharkhiz, a prominent reformist journalist, under observation in the ...
Hardliners' Entrenched Resistance is Overcome in Polls An overlooked outcome of Iran’s recent elections is the unprecedented success of women, who ...
Iranians have a constitutional right to take their government to court and seek damages for worsening environmental pollution, attorney Mostafa Tork Hamadani told the International ...
Mehdi Yahyanejad, Toosheh's founder. A young company run by a group of Iranian-American professionals based in California has developed ...
Saeed Madani, a political activist and academic, was exiled to the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on March 16, 2016 after serving four years ...
The father of ailing political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi Maleki will launch a hunger strike in front of the Tehran prosecutor’s office unless steps are ...
This video explains why it is so imperative that the United Nations Human Rights Council ensures the Special Rapporteur and other UN mechanisms continue their critical work of monitoring Iran’s human rights situation, given the severe rights violations that persist in Iran and Tehran’s refusal ...
Data privacy and censorship concerns are driving Iranian companies and individuals to foreign Internet servers because domestic providers are powerless to protect their customers against ...
The Spring Equinox marks Norooz, the start of the Persian New Year. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran takes this opportunity to wish everyone around ...
Fifty high school students were married in a mass ceremony in the Iranian city of Parsian, according to local news reports. But city ...
Issa Saharkhiz, imprisoned reformist journalist and former political prisoner, was hospitalized on March 9, 2016 due to life-threatening health deterioration from successive hunger strikes. ...
While facing non-stop impediments, reformists and centrists achieved significant gains in Iran’s recent elections, even after hardline bodies broke the ...