Without adequate laws protecting workers’ safety or independent labor groups able to organize and advocate effectively for workers’ rights, workplace deaths in Iran have risen to ...
Minister of Justice, Mostafa Pourmohammadi Three days after President Hassan Rouhani suggested the possibility of a legal ...
Behrouz Alkhani Brother Says Confession was Elicited under Torture The Iranian Kurdish political prisoner Behrouz Alkhani was executed in Orumiyeh Prison’s ...
Official Iranian government statistics show that tens of thousands of girls under the age of 15 are married off by their families each year in ...
Political motivations are taking precedence over the law when it comes to activists such as Bahareh Hedayat, who is being kept in prison despite the ...
The student and women’s rights activist Bahareh Hedayat, imprisoned for over five years in Iran, has been given an additional two-year prison sentence, ...
Atena Daemi, children’s rights and civil activist Family Hopes Atena Daemi Will Be ...
Saeed Abedini American officials must do more to obtain the release of unjustly imprisoned Iranian-Americans, according to the ...
Atena Faraghdani Jailed artist Atena Faraghdani has expressed gratitude upon hearing she was awarded the 2015 Courage in Cartooning ...
Saeed Mortazavi, The former Tehran Prosecutor Mortazavi Verdict Shows Officials Still Enjoy Impunity even in Cases of Torture and Death of Prisoners. The former Tehran ...
Farnaz Fassihi False Allegations Are Attempt to Justify Coming Verdict against Washington Post Reporter Rezaian After a week of ...
The Iranian Judiciary’s continued practice, under the direction of Sadegh Amoli Larijani, of carrying out amputations as a routine punishment, is not only in direct ...
Abdolfattah Soltani, human rights lawyer. Evin Prison authorities have prevented Massoumeh Dehghan from visiting her husband, the imprisoned human ...
Banning of Films Continues under Rouhani Administration Despite repeated statements made by President ...
Mohammad Hossein Rafiee Mohammad Hossein Rafiee, a 71-year-old political activist has been illegally held in detention since June ...
Atena Faraghdani The artist and civil activist Atena Faraghdani has developed signs of lymphatic disease in prison as ...
Bahareh Hedayat’s Continued Detention Violates Iran’s Own Laws Prominent student activist Bahareh ...
The blatant denial of due process on display on the last day of Jason Rezaian’s trial on August 10, 2015, when his lawyer was not ...
Three Iranian-American prisoners, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, Jason ...
Three people found guilty of rape were executed in public in the Golshahr neighborhood of the ...
Sent Back to Prison despite Doctors’ Insistence She Be Seen by a Specialist Imprisoned rights activist Narges Mohammadi’s medical illnesses have reached a critical stage and ...
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Naghmeh Shahsavandi Shirazi One of the eight Facebook activists sentenced to long prison sentences in 2013 for social and political commentary posted on their Facebook pages, has asserted that she was ...
The Iranian Judiciary carried out a double limb amputation sentence on August 4, 2015, where a convict's foot and fingers were amputated for ...
Allegations against Dr. Ahmed Shaheed Unsubstantiated and Questioned by WikiLeaks Ever desperate to discredit the work and person of UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed, news agencies in Iran run ...
