The number of students being prosecuted for allegedly joining Iran’s December 2017/January 2018 protests is much higher than earlier estimates according to a well-known reformist lawmaker. “A list has been put together of the students detained in the December 2017 incidents and they number more than 150,” ...
July 12, 2018--During a speech in March 2018, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that no one in Iran is imprisoned for their thoughts, expressions, or personal choices. That’s not true. ...
University of Tehran student activists Sina Darvish Omran and Ali Mozaffari were each sentenced to eight years in prison on June 11, 2018, by Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran for allegedly joining protests in Tehran earlier in ...
Ten striking workers at Iran's Heavy Equipment Production Company (HEPCO) in the city of Arak, south of Tehran, were charged with “disturbing public order” for participating in protests billed as “illegal gatherings” after they appeared in court on May 28, 2018. The semi-official ...
Police and security forces blocked an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the anti-censorship Iranian Writers Association (IWA) by raiding the home in Tehran where it was supposed to be held on May 25, 2018. “We were ...
Bullets fired by police in the city of Kazeroon, Fars Province, killed two men—Ali Mohammadian and Azad Omid Reza Yousefian—during protests there in May 2018 the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Mohammadian was a welder and Yousefian a ...
Protests in Kazeroon Ongoing For Months Over Plan to Divide City At least two people are suspected to have been killed and several wounded after police in the south-western Iranian city of Kazeroon opened fire on a crowd in front of a police station where their relatives were ...
The fact-finding commission set up by President Hassan Rouhani to investigate the recent spate of detainee deaths in Iran has produced no results since it was formed nearly three months ago, the lawyer of one victim’s family told the Center ...
MP: Intelligence Ministry Has Rejected Espionage Claims More than 40 environmentalists, rangers and some of their relatives were arrested May 7-8, 2018, in the southern Iranian harbor city of Bandar Lengeh and surrounding towns Lavaredin, Janah and Bastak in Hormozgan Province, the Center for Human Rights in ...
Esmail Abdi Warns Judiciary of the Consequences of Its “Illegal Rulings” Ahead of Hunger Strike Prominent teachers’ rights advocate Esmail Abdi has written a letter from Evin Prison strongly criticizing Iranian officials’ for their failure to uphold the promises of the country’s 1979 ...
Decision made at the “highest level” has set the stage for blocking social network used by 40 million. App can be blocked on supreme leader’s order but Iranians unlikely to flock to domestic alternatives due to privacy concerns. After months of unsuccessful attempts by Iranian ...
At Least 13 Environmentalists Have Been Detained in Iran Since January 2018 Seven environmentalists who were arrested in Tehran nearly two months ago remain in detention with no or extremely limited access to legal counsel while their families are being kept in the dark about any charges against ...
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