Former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who has been living under extrajudicial house arrest for over five years for contesting the result of Iran’s widely disputed 2009 presidential election, has written an open ...
“Do not forget the spilt blood of Iranian youths or the young and old prisoners suffering in small and large prisons in this country when you are negotiating huge profitable deals with senior Iranian officials.” ...
Omid Kokabee’s Life Endangered by Years of Denied Medical Care in Iran Prison April 21, 2016—Omid Kokabee, the young physicist who has been imprisoned in Iran for over 5 years for his refusal to work ...
Denials Raise Questions Over Whether Deal Will Go Through A global payment service provider based in the U.S. has announced that it has made its platform available to Iranians, enabling them to make international ...
April 18, 2016—Prisoner of conscience Omid Kokabee, the young physicist who has been imprisoned in Iran for over five years for his refusal to work on military research for the Islamic Republic, has been diagnosed with ...
Political Prisoner Protests His Imprisonment and Denial of Medical Care Prisoner of conscience Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, who has been on dry and wet hunger strikes since March 26, ...
Prisoners Face Denial of Medical Care, Refusal to Transfer Inmates to Hospital despite Life Threatening Illness, Solitary Confinement Aimed at Extracting False Confessions, Poor Nutrition, Denial of Family Visits April 14, 2016—Mohammad Seifzadeh, the prominent Iranian human ...
In this new video, the Campaign asks Iranians from all walks of life inside and outside Iran to share their hopes and expectations of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani for the New Persian year....
Status of Case and Charges against Her Remain Unknown Concern is growing for the well-being of newspaper columnist Afarin Chitsaz, who has been imprisoned incommunicado since her arrest ...
Two weeks have passed since Minoo Khaleghi’s election to Parliament in Iran’s recent elections was nullified without an explanation by the Guardian Council, ...
Fundamental Changes in Content Delivery: Opportunities and Challenges On the first day of the RightsCon conference, hundreds of participants from around the world shared their insights on various panels focused on freedom of expression on the Internet and ...
Phones of Film Star and Others in Gathering Illegally Confiscated by Police Hedieh Tehrani, a film star and animal rights activist, was arrested and charged along with 16 other people in Tehran on April ...
Rouhieh Safajoo, a student banned from Iranian universities because of her Baha’i faith and arrested for her online activism, was released on March 27, 2016 on 500 million rials (about $16,500 USD) bail, nearly ...
Prisoner of conscience Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been on a wet hunger strike since March 26, 2016 to protest being denied medical care for his kidney disease, according ...
Political prisoner Mostafa Azizi, one of many émigrés who returned to Iran following assurances of their safe return by the Rouhani administration, has been sentenced ...
Letter Comes To Light Three Years after Brutal Physical Abuse of Detained Baha’is Details of torture inflicted upon twelve Baha’is by interrogators three years ago at Amir Abad prison and detention centers ...
In a video message on the occasion of the Persian New Year, Norooz, prominent Iranian musician Mohammad Reza Shajarian announced his 15-year battle with cancer. One of the country's most popular artists and a master of ...
Gholam-Hossein Khaledi, an Iranian park ranger sentenced to death for killing a poacher in 2010, was released on March 18, 2016 after paying 12 billion rials (about $400,000 USD) diyah (“blood money”) to the victim’s ...
Reformists Call on Rouhani to Stop Hardliners from Blocking Elected Candidates March 24, 2016—The reformist MP Minoo Khaleghi, newly elected to Parliament from the city of Isfahan and one of ...
Severe health problems are keeping prisoner of conscience Issa Saharkhiz, a prominent reformist journalist, under observation in the hospital he was transferred to from Evin Prison on March ...
Hardliners' Entrenched Resistance is Overcome in Polls An overlooked outcome of Iran’s recent elections is the unprecedented success of women, who achieved voter support even though the Guardian Council, the hardline ...
Mehdi Yahyanejad, Toosheh's founder. A young company run by a group of Iranian-American professionals based in California has developed a free, easy-to-use application that provides Iranians faster Internet access ...
Saeed Madani, a political activist and academic, was exiled to the southern port city of Bandar Abbas on March 16, 2016 after serving four years of his eight-year prison sentence at Evin Prison, according to ...
The father of ailing political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi Maleki will launch a hunger strike in front of the Tehran prosecutor’s office unless steps are taken to release his son. “Hossein has been in prison for ...
This video explains why it is so imperative that the United Nations Human Rights Council ensures the Special Rapporteur and other UN mechanisms continue their critical work of monitoring Iran’s human rights situation, given the severe rights violations that persist in Iran and Tehran’s refusal to implement the dozens of promises it has made to ...