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Six Inmates at Rajaee Shahr Prison Punished With Solitary Confinement For Going on Hunger Strike

Six Inmates at Rajaee Shahr Prison Punished With Solitary Confinement For Going on Hunger Strike

August 16, 2017

Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj. Prisoners Protest Transfer to High-Security Ward Without Medicine or Clothes More than 50 political prisoners ...

Detained Political Leader Mehdi Karroubi on Life-Threatening Hunger Strike

Detained Political Leader Mehdi Karroubi on Life-Threatening Hunger Strike

August 16, 2017

August 16, 2017—The Iranian judiciary must immediately release ailing political leaders Mehdi Karroubi, who is currently on hunger strike, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Karroubi (79), ...

Editor of Prominent Iranian Reformist Newspaper Etemad Arrested for Fourth Time

Editor of Prominent Iranian Reformist Newspaper Etemad Arrested for Fourth Time

August 16, 2017

Journalist Sasan Aghaei Repeatedly Targeted by Security Organizations The arrest of Sasan Aghaei, the deputy editor of the reformist daily newspaper Etemad, at his office in Tehran on August ...

Women’s Rights Activist Demands Rouhani Provide Reasons for His Exclusively Male Cabinet

Women’s Rights Activist Demands Rouhani Provide Reasons for His Exclusively Male Cabinet

August 14, 2017

Women’s rights advocate Nahid Tavasoli. President Hassan Rouhani must explain why he didn’t nominate women to serve in his new cabinet, feminist researcher ...

Iranian Sunnis Who Supported Rouhani’s Reelection Feel Snubbed by His Cabinet Picks

Iranian Sunnis Who Supported Rouhani’s Reelection Feel Snubbed by His Cabinet Picks

August 11, 2017

Former MP Urges Rouhani to “Expose” Human Rights Violators Iran’s Sunni Muslim community is “disappointed” by President Hassan Rouhani’s decision to exclude members of the minority religious group from his cabinet, two former Sunni members ...

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 ...

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 ...

Workers at Iranian Sugarcane Company Summoned to Court After Protesting Unpaid Wages

Workers at Iranian Sugarcane Company Summoned to Court After Protesting Unpaid Wages

August 9, 2017

Workers of the Haft Tappeh sugarcane company protest for their unpaid wages. Fifty-three workers of Iran’s Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Agro Industrial Company ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Iranian Sugar Plant Workers Detained Without Bail After Protesting Unpaid Wages and Benefits

Iranian Sugar Plant Workers Detained Without Bail After Protesting Unpaid Wages and Benefits

July 31, 2017

Eight workers at one of Iran’s largest and oldest agricultural companies remain detained without bail after being arrested for demanding unpaid wages and benefits. At least 13 workers who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Downgraded Sentence for Teachers’ Rights Activist Issued Amid Ongoing Prosecution of Labor Leaders

Downgraded Sentence for Teachers’ Rights Activist Issued Amid Ongoing Prosecution of Labor Leaders

July 24, 2017

Teachers' rights activist Taher Ghaderzadeh's sign reads: "A teacher's place is in ...

Iranian State Censorship Body Blocks Websites Belonging to Persecuted Sufi Gonabadi Order

Iranian State Censorship Body Blocks Websites Belonging to Persecuted Sufi Gonabadi Order

July 22, 2017

State authorities in Iran have blocked access to websites belonging to the Sufi Gonabadi Order to erase the religious minority’s presence on cyberspace, their lawyer told ...

Pro-Rouhani Journalist Tortured by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Acquitted of Anti-State Charges

Pro-Rouhani Journalist Tortured by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Acquitted of Anti-State Charges

July 18, 2017

More than two years after his arrest and torture by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reformist journalist Farzad Pourmoradi, a supporter of President Hassan Rouhani, has been acquitted of the charges laid ...

Rights Activists Urge Rouhani to Nominate Women to His Cabinet

Rights Activists Urge Rouhani to Nominate Women to His Cabinet

July 11, 2017

Asieh Amini, journalist and women’s rights activist. Photo by Javad Montazeri. “If women were given the opportunity, ...

Conservative MPs Pressure Culture Ministry to Ban Films Portraying “Realistic Picture” of Modern Iranian Life

Conservative MPs Pressure Culture Ministry to Ban Films Portraying “Realistic Picture” of Modern Iranian Life

July 7, 2017

A scene from "Atomic Heart" (2014) Director Ali Ahmadzadeh’s film “Atomic Heart,” about the lives of young, modern ...

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