March 10, 2017—Serious and baseless new charges have been brought against Karan Vafadari and Afarin Neyssari, the dual-national Iranian-American and his wife who have been imprisoned in Iran’s Evin Prison without ...
In a joint statement 20 human rights organizations urged the Iranian authorities to stop their attempts to silence human rights defenders and others seeking to shed light on past atrocities. ...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are preventing the hospitalization of political prisoner Arash Sadeghi, who needs urgent medical treatment for the effects of his prolonged ...
Two Iranian Catholic converts have been arrested in their home by the Revolutionary Guards in West Azerbaijan Province, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. “At 7 ...
Some Prisoners Attacked With “Brass Knuckles and Knives” The authorities of Evin Prison in Tehran are violating Iranian law by refusing to move four political prisoners who have been attacked by other inmates to a ...
Rouhani Officials Ignore Djalali’s Wife’s Letters Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali is protesting his detainment in Iran since April 2016 without charge and denial of access to due process by ...
Update: Farzaneh Jalali was released on March 13, 2017, according to a post on her Facebook page. Farzaneh Jalali, an Iranian-Kurdish civil rights activist, has been held at an Intelligence Ministry...
The daughter of an imprisoned prominent human rights lawyer has accused Iran’s hardline Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi of blocking the release of her ailing father, ...
Four Iranian ethnic Azerbaijanis have been issued long prison sentences for peacefully defending their rights, the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned. One defendant, Alireza Farshi, told the Campaign that Branch 1 of ...
Ahmad Montazeri (right) with his wife Zahra Amlashi. The wife of Ahmad Montazeri, sentenced to six years in prison for publishing ...
Iranian-American dual citizen Reza (Robin) Shahini, currently serving an 18-year prison sentence in Gorgan Prison (about 190 miles east of Tehran), has gone on hunger strike to ...
Twitter’s growth in Iran can be tracked through three distinct stages; when it was banned in 2009, during the nuclear talks in 2013-15, and after the ban was ...
Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali, detained in Iran since April 2016, began a second hunger strike in Evin Prison on February 15, 2017 to protest against his ...
Some Conservatives Side With Reformist Leader Khatami Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s refusal of an offer to achieve “national reconciliation” in Iran by ending the six-year extrajudicial house arrests of three ...
Update: Leila Haghighatjou was released on February 19, 2017 on bail set at 220 million tomans ($68,000 USD). Leila Haghighatjou, the sister of Fatemeh Haghighatjou, an outspoken critic of the Islamic Republic, was arrested by the ...
The son of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, who has been detained under house arrest without trial since 2011, told the Campaign for Human Rights ...
Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been detained in Tehran without due process since April 2016, was threatened with the death penalty on the first day of his ...
Tahereh Riahi, the social affairs editor of the state-funded Borna News Agency, who has been detained by the Intelligence Ministry since late ...
Shahnaz Akmali, the mother of a well-known victim of the Islamic Republic’s violent crackdown on the Green Movement, which grew out of the widespread protests ...
Reza Salehi Amiri became the minister of culture and Islamic guidance in November 2016 after former minister Ali Jannati resigned. Less than three months into his new ...
"Death to Baha'is" reads the graffiti spray painted by a vandal on the gates of a Baha'i-owned home. Fifteen Baha'i Students Expelled in December and January At ...
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Husband Writes Direct Plea to Rouhani January 25, 2017–The Iranian Judiciary’s recent upholding of the indefensible five-year prison sentence...
Kamal Foroughi, a 77-year-old ailing British-Iranian dual citizen and former civil engineer incarcerated at Evin Prison in Tehran since May 2011, has been denied previously promised and urgently required extended medical ...
A survey of public opinion in Iran conducted in the last quarter of 2016 shows that even though a large majority of Iranians (75%) rated advancing democracy and protecting personal and ...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are blocking the granted furlough (temporary release) request of Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian-born Canadian resident who has been in imprisoned in Tehran since 2008, ...