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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The fact-finding commission set up by President Hassan Rouhani to investigate the recent spate of detainee deaths in Iran has produced ...
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 ...
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’ ...
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 ...
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 ...
Iranian human rights lawyer Mohammad Najafi is facing eight charges for daring to speak up about a client he believes was killed in custody. Security Agents Create “Climate ...
The family of a man who died in police custody in Iran intends to sue judicial authorities for burying him without their permission the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Their ...
JOINT PUBLIC STATEMENT 13 March 2018 The Iranian authorities should end their cruel campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of detainees who have died in detention under suspicious circumstances, Amnesty International, ...
Selection of Avaei Shows Culture of Impunity For Human Rights Violators Will Continue in Iran February 27, 2018—The Iranian government’s decision to name Minister of Justice Seyyed Alireza Avaei as its representative ...
Rights Activist, Condemning Iranian Judiciary’s “Subservience” to Security Agencies, is One of Many Languishing Behind Bars February 22, 2018—The recent letter to Iran’s judiciary chief by ...
Contrary to Iranian official’s claims that all the university students who were detained in connection with Iran’s December 2017 protests have been released, some remain in custody ...
Distraught Family Under Enormous Pressure to Bury Body Quickly and Not Speak Publicly About the Death February 12, 2018—The family of the Iranian-Canadian academic, Kavous Seyed-Emami, whose death ...
"Evin Prison officials are using medicine as a weapon" US permanent resident Nizar Zakka is being denied medical attention in Evin Prison despite ...
Police arrested more than 30 protesters on the fourth day of a strike by hundreds of workers on February 4, 2018, at a major sugar plant near the city ...
A Friday prayer leader in Tehran has called for the death penalty to be issued to citizens who participated in the weeklong protests that erupted across Iran in December 2017. ...
Police in Tehran have turned 29 people over to the judicial authorities for taking part in a growing campaign against forced hijab, the hardline Tasnim news agency reported on February 1, 2018. The detainees’ ...
More than a month after thousands of people were arrested in Iran after weeklong protests erupted across the country beginning in December 2017, 11 Members of Parliament (MPs) were allowed to ...
In a letter written under house arrest, opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has warned Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to heed the signs of ...
Iranian Officials have imposed travel restrictions on one of the ...
Political prisoners Atena Daemi and Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee were beaten by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Tehran’s Evin Prison and transferred ...
Forty Iranian lawmakers have written to President Hassan Rouhani and Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani urging them to immediately release student detainees who were arrested during the weeklong protests that hit several ...