Popular Instant Messaging Applications Severely Interrupted in Iran
A month after a warning by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Center for Investigation of Organized Crime that the use of Telegram violated Iran’s crime ...
A month after a warning by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Center for Investigation of Organized Crime that the use of Telegram violated Iran’s crime ...
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Reyhaneh Tabatabaie Facebook Posts and Reformist Affiliations Are Her “Crimes” The journalist Reyhaneh Tabatabaie, 35, has been ...
Security forces arrested the prominent Iranian cartoonist Hadi Heidari in his office at Shahrvand Daily in Tehran today, November 16, 2015. Two co-workers of ...
Solmaz Ikdar The journalist Solmaz Ikdar has been sentenced to three years in prison for “insulting the ...
In a fresh crackdown on Iran’s Baha’i community, one of the most persecuted religious minorities in Iran, 15 followers of the faith were simultaneously arrested in ...
Cars driven by women who do not observe the hijab (head covering for women) will be impounded and fines will be imposed, according to ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, condemns the terrorist acts that led to the loss of lives of dozens of innocent citizens in Paris, and all similar terrorist acts in the Middle ...
Fourteen days after prisoner of conscience Ali Shariati embarked on a hunger strike to protest the judicial process of his case, he remains on strike inside ...
Hadi Heidari’s last cartoon was related to the ...
Reacting to the recent arrests of Iranian journalists by the IRGC, and extensive articles on the subject on ultra-conservative media such as Kayhan and Fars ...
Several journalists were arrested in Iran over the past week in an intensifying campaign of repression that is based on the belief, spearheaded by Iran’s ...
Shahram Ahmadi Shahram Ahmadi has been sentenced to death in Iran due to his activism as a ...
Fear of Post-Nuclear Deal Rapprochement with West Drives Intensified Repression November 9, 2015—Several journalists were arrested in Iran over the past week in ...
The political journalist Issa Saharkhiz has been arrested on charges of “intending to disrupt national security,” “propaganda against the state,” and “insulting ...
Iranian women remain barred from entering sports stadiums to watch games and competitions. This is cartoonist Touka Neyestani's take on the issue. (See related animation.)...
By Herbert L. Berk October 30 Herbert L. ...
Controversy over Strict Adherence to Islamic Law Dates Back to 1979 Revolution A battle over the necessity of strict adherence to Islamic law, including Quranic punishments that ...
In this new video and Twitter campaign, Let Iranian Women Go to Stadiums, the Campaign and Human Rights Watch speak out against the Iranian government’s ban on women at sport stadiums, and ask viewers to tell the International ...
Alireza Rajaei The prominent journalist Alireza Rajaee has been released from prison upon completion of a four-year sentence ...
Peyman Haj-Mahmoud Attar, the lawyer for the Teachers Association ...
International Community Should Pursue Human Rights with Same Commitment as the Nuclear Deal October 29, 2015—The international community should urge Iranian authorities to allow the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, into the country, ...
Esmaeil Gerami Moghaddam Esmail Gerami Moghaddam, a former Member of Parliament and spokesman for a reformist party has ...
The US Congressional Representative from Minnesota, Keith Ellison, called today in a video message for the “unconditional release of Jason Rezaian.” “I call on the Iranian government to recognize that the truth should never be a crime, and Rezaian must ...
Amin Anvari’s mother, Farah Bakhshi Student activist Amin Anvari, 21, who received a suspended prison sentence ...