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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 from ...

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 had ...

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 a classroom, ...

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 ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Comes to Judiciary’s Defense After Rouhani Criticizes Problematic Arrests

Iran’s Supreme Leader Comes to Judiciary’s Defense After Rouhani Criticizes Problematic Arrests

July 5, 2017

Iran’s supreme leader is continuing his public criticism of newly re-elected President Hassan Rouhani, this time accusing him of not doing enough to aid the judiciary in protecting ...

Reformist Ally: “Constructive Collaboration” With Iran’s Parliament Will Aid Rouhani’s Policy Battles

Reformist Ally: “Constructive Collaboration” With Iran’s Parliament Will Aid Rouhani’s Policy Battles

June 30, 2017

Iran’s newly re-elected centrist President Hassan Rouhani should engage in “constructive collaboration” with Parliament to implement his policies amid increasing opposition from powerful hardliners, a reformist politician told the Center for ...

Guilt by Association: Relatives of Armed Kurdish Group Member Shot by IRGC Arrested

Guilt by Association: Relatives of Armed Kurdish Group Member Shot by IRGC Arrested

June 28, 2017

“We don’t know if he’s dead or still alive.” Four relatives of a member of a Kurdish militant organization who was recently shot in a clash with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ...

Azeri Rights Activist Imprisoned Despite Posting Bail One Year Ago Begins Hunger Strike

Azeri Rights Activist Imprisoned Despite Posting Bail One Year Ago Begins Hunger Strike

June 27, 2017

Siamak Mirzaei, an Azeri ethnic rights activist, started a hunger strike on June 25, 2017 in Tehran’s Evin Prison to convince judicial authorities to end his yearlong legal limbo, a source ...

Prominent Imprisoned Activist Who Voted for Rouhani: My Vote Was For Iran’s Civil Society

Prominent Imprisoned Activist Who Voted for Rouhani: My Vote Was For Iran’s Civil Society

June 26, 2017

Narges Mohammadi, a prominent human rights activist serving a 16-year prison sentence for her peaceful advocacy efforts, is publicly urging newly re-elected President Hassan Rouhani to build the foundations for ...

Angry Protestors Force Rouhani to Flee Rally in Tehran

Angry Protestors Force Rouhani to Flee Rally in Tehran

June 23, 2017

A few weeks after being elected for a second term as president, Hassan Rouhani had to be whisked away from a rally in Tehran on June 23 by his security forces ...

Iranian Nobel Laureate Blasts Khamenei’s “Fire at Will” Policy Against Domestic Opponents

Iranian Nobel Laureate Blasts Khamenei’s “Fire at Will” Policy Against Domestic Opponents

June 22, 2017

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s recent declaration that his supporters should “fire at will” against presumed enemies of the state is an established policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi told ...

Photojournalist Who Worked for Rouhani’s Presidential Campaign Arrested Without Charge

Photojournalist Who Worked for Rouhani’s Presidential Campaign Arrested Without Charge

June 22, 2017

Husband Pressured to Confess to Espionage Formerly imprisoned photojournalist Asal Esmailzadeh was “suddenly” arrested without charge while accompanying her husband to the Culture and Media Court in Tehran on June 19, 2017, Saeed Seif ...

Iran’s Judiciary Prevents Top Labor Activists From Attending International Conference

Iran’s Judiciary Prevents Top Labor Activists From Attending International Conference

June 16, 2017

A travel ban imposed by the Iranian judiciary has prevented prominent labor rights activists Reza Shahabi and Davoud Razavi from attending an ...

Human Rights Activist Told He Must Serve Additional Year in Prison on Day of Expected Release

Human Rights Activist Told He Must Serve Additional Year in Prison on Day of Expected Release

June 12, 2017

While his family waited for him outside Rajaee Shahr Prison the day he was supposed to be released, on June 6, 2017, Navid Khanjani was told he would ...

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