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Iranian Imprisoned Spiritual Leader Awaiting New Verdict While IRGC Arrests His Followers

Iranian Imprisoned Spiritual Leader Awaiting New Verdict While IRGC Arrests His Followers

August 11, 2017

Followers of imprisoned Iranian spiritual leader Mohammad Ali Taheri are being arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) while he awaits a verdict more than three ...

Reformist MPs Form Committee to End House Arrests After Karroubi’s Hospitalization

Reformist MPs Form Committee to End House Arrests After Karroubi’s Hospitalization

August 11, 2017

Reformist members of Iran’s Parliament have established the Committee to Seek an End to House Arrests following the recent hospitalization of ...

Prominent Labor Activist Returns to Prison After Medical Leave “Unapproved” by Prosecutor

Prominent Labor Activist Returns to Prison After Medical Leave “Unapproved” by Prosecutor

August 9, 2017

Almost three years after he was released, prominent labor activist Reza Shahabi has returned to prison to serve the remainder of a six-year prison sentence to prevent the judiciary from seizing the home of a person ...

Iran’s Beleaguered Music Community Urges Rouhani to Prevent Concert Cancellations

Iran’s Beleaguered Music Community Urges Rouhani to Prevent Concert Cancellations

August 8, 2017

Contemporary Iranian music singers Shahram Nazeri (left) and Hafez Nazeri (middle) perform at a concert. ...

Labor Activist Describes Torture and Inhumane Living Conditions at Iran’s Largest Prison

Labor Activist Describes Torture and Inhumane Living Conditions at Iran’s Largest Prison

August 8, 2017

Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) Teachers rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi witnessed torture and inhumane conditions including overcrowding, unsanitary living spaces, intolerable heat ...

Political Prisoner in Solitary Confinement for Hunger Striking Against Wife’s Detention

Political Prisoner in Solitary Confinement for Hunger Striking Against Wife’s Detention

August 4, 2017

Soheil Arabi with his wife and daughter. Political prisoner Soheil Arabi, serving a seven-year prison sentence for the content of his personal Facebook posts, was moved to ...

Year-Long Legal Limbo of Swedish Resident Imprisoned in Iran Continues After Judge Calls in Sick

Year-Long Legal Limbo of Swedish Resident Imprisoned in Iran Continues After Judge Calls in Sick

August 4, 2017

Swedish Embassy Staffers Waited in Courthouse The long-awaited trial of Iranian-born Swedish permanent resident Ahmadreza Djalali, imprisoned in Iran on unspecified charges since April 2016, was cancelled while Djalali and two ...

Some Detained Reformist Telegram Channel Admins Released on Bail Until Trial

Some Detained Reformist Telegram Channel Admins Released on Bail Until Trial

August 4, 2017

CHRI obtained an Instagram photo showing the minister posing with some of the detainees. Until their trial later ...

Rouhani’s Lost Battle: UN 2030 Education Guidelines

Rouhani’s Lost Battle: UN 2030 Education Guidelines

August 3, 2017

In 2015, Iran adopted educational guidelines from the UN 2030 agenda that could substantially improve access to education throughout the country. Two years later, a vicious smear campaign and opposition by the supreme leader has resulted in President Hassan Rouhani scrapping the guidelines. Generations of Iranians stand to lose ...

Rouhani Could Appoint Surveillance Expert From Ahmadinejad Era to Telecommunications Ministry

Rouhani Could Appoint Surveillance Expert From Ahmadinejad Era to Telecommunications Ministry

August 3, 2017

Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi could become Iran’s new telecommunications minister. Javad Azari Jahromi Enters Spotlight By Unblocking YouTube and Blogger ...

Iran Should Immediately Release Critically Ill Opposition Leaders Under House Arrest

Iran Should Immediately Release Critically Ill Opposition Leaders Under House Arrest

August 2, 2017

Karroubi and Mousavi’s Health in Peril After Six Years of Forced Isolation August 2, 2017—More than six years into their extrajudicial house arrest, the health of leading Iranian political opposition leaders is in grave danger, ...

Teachers’ Rights Leader Returned to Prison Despite Judicial Official’s Furlough Pledge

Teachers’ Rights Leader Returned to Prison Despite Judicial Official’s Furlough Pledge

August 2, 2017

Esmail Abdi’s Six-Year Sentence Influenced by IRGC The former secretary general of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA) has been returned to Evin Prison to continue serving ...

Prominent Activists Defy State Ban on Visiting Hospitalized Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi

Prominent Activists Defy State Ban on Visiting Hospitalized Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi

August 1, 2017

From right to left: Amin Ahmadian, Bahareh Hedayat, Mostafa Tajzadeh and Fakhrolsadat Mohtashamipour at the ...

Family, US Congress Convince Imprisoned US Permanent Resident to End Hunger Strike in Iran

Family, US Congress Convince Imprisoned US Permanent Resident to End Hunger Strike in Iran

August 1, 2017

Nizar Zakka “Under Intense Torture and Pressure” A Lebanese-born US permanent resident who was sentenced in September 2016 to 10 years imprisonment in Iran ended his hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin Prison on July 27, 2017 ...

Student Imprisoned for Refusing to Spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Denied Visitation Rights

Student Imprisoned for Refusing to Spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Denied Visitation Rights

August 1, 2017

Imprisoned for refusing to spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, Hamid Babaei has been denied visitation rights at Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran.  “Today ...

Political Prisoners’ Letter to Foreign Ambassadors Who Went on Staged Tour of Evin Prison

Political Prisoners’ Letter to Foreign Ambassadors Who Went on Staged Tour of Evin Prison

July 31, 2017

Editor's Note: On July 5, 2017, dozens of foreign diplomats based in Iran went on a staged tour of Evin Prison designed to prevent any contact between the diplomats and political prisoners ...

Judicial Official Threatens Rouhani’s Telecommunications Minister With Criminal Charges Over Telegram

Judicial Official Threatens Rouhani’s Telecommunications Minister With Criminal Charges Over Telegram

July 31, 2017

Photo caption: Telecommunications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi (right) and Deputy Prosecutor General Abdolsamad Khorramabadi Iran’s Deputy Prosecutor General Abdolsamad Khorramabadi has threatened to take Telecommunications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi to court ...

MPs Say Efforts “Continuing” to Free Opposition Leaders Amid Karroubi’s Hospitalization

MPs Say Efforts “Continuing” to Free Opposition Leaders Amid Karroubi’s Hospitalization

July 30, 2017

Former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi has been under extrajudicial house arrest since 2011. Hospital ...

Police Arrest Peaceful Participants at Annual Commemoration for Popular Dissident Poet Ahmad Shamlu

Police Arrest Peaceful Participants at Annual Commemoration for Popular Dissident Poet Ahmad Shamlu

July 28, 2017

Iranian police and security forces dispersed a gathering marking the 17th anniversary of popular poet Ahmad Shamlu’s death and arrested several participants, including a senior member of ...

Detained Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Recovering From Emergency Medical Procedure

Detained Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Recovering From Emergency Medical Procedure

July 27, 2017

Six Years Later, Karroubi Still Awaiting First Trial Former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, under extrajudicial house arrest since 2011, is recovering in the hospital after undergoing an emergency medical procedure on July 26, 2017. “My ...

Iran Shrugs Off US Demand for Release of Imprisoned Citizens

Iran Shrugs Off US Demand for Release of Imprisoned Citizens

July 27, 2017

Iranian-American citizens imprisoned in Iran include 80-year-old Baquer Namazi (left), ...

Telegram’s Efforts to Increase Download Speed in Iran Raises Questions   

Telegram’s Efforts to Increase Download Speed in Iran Raises Questions   

July 27, 2017

Placement of Telegram CDNs in Iran Requires Increased Transparency June 27, 2017—In light of the decision by the messaging application Telegram to use closed content delivery networks (CDNs) —caching servers that allow faster delivery of ...

1,600 Teachers Demand Iran’s Judiciary Free Imprisoned Rights Activist

1,600 Teachers Demand Iran’s Judiciary Free Imprisoned Rights Activist

July 25, 2017

More than one thousand Iranian teachers have issued a statement calling for the release of a teacher imprisoned for peacefully advocating for teachers’ rights in the southern port city of Bushehr. “We believe the authorities should ...

Sufi Devotee With Heart Disease Denied “Urgent” Medical Care in Bandar Abbas Prison

Sufi Devotee With Heart Disease Denied “Urgent” Medical Care in Bandar Abbas Prison

July 25, 2017

Despite worsening heart disease, Mohammad Ali Shamshirzan, an imprisoned dervish of Iran’s Sufi Gonabadi Order in Hormozgan Province, is being denied specialized treatment outside prison. “Prisoners are ...

Sunni Council in Iran Suspends Operations Amid Ongoing Arrests and Intimidation

Sunni Council in Iran Suspends Operations Amid Ongoing Arrests and Intimidation

July 24, 2017

Dissident Sunni cleric Hassan Amini is the secretary general of the Sunni Theologians ...

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