Shiite Mystic Released from Prison in Iran After Serving Nine Years, Case Status Unclear
Editor's Note: On April 24, 2019, Judiciary Spokesman Gholam-Hossein Esmaili told reporters that all outstanding sentences in Mr. Taheri's case have been ...
Editor's Note: On April 24, 2019, Judiciary Spokesman Gholam-Hossein Esmaili told reporters that all outstanding sentences in Mr. Taheri's case have been ...
Amendment Requires Guardian Council’s Approval After years of advocacy efforts by defenders of the rights of people with disabilities in Iran, ...
Movahedi Has Served Five Months of Her One-Year Prison Sentence Vida Movahedi, the woman whose public display of peaceful protest against Iran’s ...
Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish citizen of Iranian birth imprisoned in Iran under trumped-up charges, requires urgent medical care. Join Scholars At Risk and the Center for Human Rights in Iran in calling for his release by signing this letter of appeal. ...
A member of the Isfahan City Council, Mehdi Moghaddari, has been suspended from his seat for six months in part for supporting a ...
The Iranian government and judiciary are intensifying a nationwide crackdown on civil society and beyond to stifle any form of dissent, Karim ...
Activist Yasaman Aryani was arrested in Tehran on April 10, 2019, after appearing in a widely shared video of women peacefully protesting Iran’s ...
Agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence Organization arrested at least 11 Arab-Iranian volunteers as they were trying to ...
Supporters Barred from Court Room *Editor's note: Mojtaba Dadashi was taken to prison in the city of Sabzevar on April 13, 2019, ...
Three staff members of Gam news, an independent Persian-language news channel on the Telegram messaging ...
Newly released from prison, civil rights activist Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi may have to serve more ...
Michael White Sentenced to 10 Years Imprisonment US Navy veteran Michael White was repeatedly taken to court in Iran without ...
Dozens of Sufi Gonabadi dervishes, a persecuted religious minority in Iran, have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms since mass protests in February 2018 turned violent, resulting in the deaths of five members of Iran's armed forces and one Sufi protester. Many dervishes are in ...
Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi Denies Future Presidential Bid Amid rumors that Iran’s Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi is eyeing a future presidential ...
Political activist Hengameh Shahidi is in poor health after a nine-month stint in solitary confinement, the Center for Human Rights ...
Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi was Iran’s first female judge before being forced to resign in the aftermath of ...
US Sanctions and Iranian Mismanagement Preventing Critically Needed Aid April 4, 2019 –The US and EU should immediately take steps to ensure that Iran receives humanitarian ...
Iranians Ask Why Apps that Could Hasten Relief Remain Blocked State filters on social media apps have reduced the efficiency of relief operations in ...
The appointment by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei of a known human rights violator to head the country’s judiciary is a prelude to ...
Iranian authorities have warned citizens that they could be prosecuted for their online postings about the flooding that has resulted in dozens of deaths and destroyed ...
Rezaee Struggling to Financially Support Family from Prison Labor activist Mahmoud Arsham Rezaee has been issued a lengthy prison sentence at a trial that ...
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At least 19 people have died in Shiraz, the capital of Iran’s Fars Province, as a result of flash ...
Gender equality advocate Rezvaneh Mohammadi was tried in absentia in Tehran under the ...
Husband Publishes Sotoudeh’s Verdict Notes, Addressing Discrepancies Refusing to legitimize the unjust judicial process in Iran, in which defendants held on politically motivated charges are sentenced ...