Protests in Kazeroon Ongoing For Months Over Plan to Divide City At least two people are suspected to have been ...
GENEVA (2 May 2018) – A UN human rights expert has urgently called on Iran to halt the death sentence against Iranian Kurd ...
GENEVA (19 April 2018) – United Nations human rights experts* have called for Iran to annul the death sentence against an Iranian Kurdish prisoner, Ramin Hossein Panahi, amid serious concerns that he has not received a ...
April 15, 2018 -- Prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi was unable to accept the 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize in person in Columbus, Ohio where the ...
Sahar Nowrouzzadeh was demoted from her position at the secretary of state’s policy planning team after far-right US ...
Vahid Tizfahm and his wife, Furuzandeh Nikumanesh, reunited after his 10-year imprisonment. Press Release by ...
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Death Certificate Makes No Mention of Officials' Claim of "Stroke" The death in custody of a nursing student arrested for allegedly filming anti-state protests in ...
Women celebrate their release from Gharchak Prison on March 12. The women who were detained at a women’s rights demonstration in front of the Iranian Labor Ministry in Tehran ...
29 Teachers Advocate For Habibi’s Freedom Teacher and trade union activist Mohammad Habibi was beaten and arrested by agents of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ...
The family of a man who died in police custody in Iran intends to sue judicial authorities for burying him without their permission the ...
JOINT PUBLIC STATEMENT 13 March 2018 The Iranian authorities should end their cruel campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of detainees who ...
Narges Hosseini smiles for the camera after being released on bail from Gharchak Prison in ...
Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. Iranian law is ...
A meeting of Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace. State Body Calls Social Media an “Effective Means of Public Diplomacy” The ...
Ongoing harassment of BBC Persian staff continues despite repeated UN criticism March 12, 2017—The UN should take immediate action on an appeal by the British Broadcasting Service (BBC) urging the Human Rights Council to protect journalists from an escalating campaign ...
March 12--Ahead of the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council, 46 Iranian and international non-governmental organizations sent a letter to all diplomatic missions ...
Upon arriving in Vancouver, Canada, on March 8, 2018, the sons of Kavous Seyed-Emami--the Iranian-Canadian academic who died in Tehran's Evin ...
Gonabadi Dervish Detainee Died From “Blows to the Head,” Says Daughter March 6, 2018—The recent death of a devotee of Iran’s largest Sufi order in Tehran ...
Karan Vafadari (left) with his son, Cyrus. Wife and Son of Karan Vafadari Fear For His Life After Suspicious Deaths in Prison March 1, 2018—The son of Iranian-American Karan Vafadari, ...
February 28, 2018—Forty-five members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have sent an open letter to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini urging her to call on Iranian officials ...
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A Session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Rights Violations Continue Under President Rouhani’s Watch February 22, 2018 — Iran’s deteriorating human rights record requires the UN Human Rights Council to renew ...