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Iran’s Beleaguered Music Community Urges Rouhani to Prevent Concert Cancellations

Iran’s Beleaguered Music Community Urges Rouhani to Prevent Concert Cancellations

August 8, 2017

Contemporary Iranian music singers Shahram Nazeri (left) and Hafez Nazeri (middle) perform at a concert. ...

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, intolerable ...

Political Prisoner in Solitary Confinement for Hunger Striking Against Wife’s Detention

Political Prisoner in Solitary Confinement for Hunger Striking Against Wife’s Detention

August 4, 2017

Soheil Arabi with his wife and daughter. Political prisoner Soheil Arabi, serving a seven-year prison sentence for the content of his personal Facebook posts, was moved to ...

Year-Long Legal Limbo of Swedish Resident Imprisoned in Iran Continues After Judge Calls in Sick

Year-Long Legal Limbo of Swedish Resident Imprisoned in Iran Continues After Judge Calls in Sick

August 4, 2017

Swedish Embassy Staffers Waited in Courthouse The long-awaited trial of Iranian-born Swedish permanent resident Ahmadreza Djalali, imprisoned in Iran on unspecified charges since April 2016, was cancelled while Djalali and two ...

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 ...

Rouhani Could Appoint Surveillance Expert From Ahmadinejad Era to Telecommunications Ministry

Rouhani Could Appoint Surveillance Expert From Ahmadinejad Era to Telecommunications Ministry

August 3, 2017

Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi could become Iran’s new telecommunications minister. Javad Azari Jahromi Enters Spotlight By Unblocking YouTube and Blogger ...

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 ...

Student Imprisoned for Refusing to Spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Denied Visitation Rights

Student Imprisoned for Refusing to Spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Denied Visitation Rights

August 1, 2017

Imprisoned for refusing to spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, Hamid Babaei has been denied visitation rights at Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran.  “Today ...

Judicial Official Threatens Rouhani’s Telecommunications Minister With Criminal Charges Over Telegram

Judicial Official Threatens Rouhani’s Telecommunications Minister With Criminal Charges Over Telegram

July 31, 2017

Photo caption: Telecommunications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi (right) and Deputy Prosecutor General Abdolsamad Khorramabadi Iran’s Deputy Prosecutor General Abdolsamad Khorramabadi has threatened to take Telecommunications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi to court ...

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 been ...

MPs Say Efforts “Continuing” to Free Opposition Leaders Amid Karroubi’s Hospitalization

MPs Say Efforts “Continuing” to Free Opposition Leaders Amid Karroubi’s Hospitalization

July 30, 2017

Former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi has been under extrajudicial house arrest since 2011. Hospital ...

Detained Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Recovering From Emergency Medical Procedure

Detained Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Recovering From Emergency Medical Procedure

July 27, 2017

Six Years Later, Karroubi Still Awaiting First Trial Former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, under extrajudicial house arrest since 2011, is recovering in the hospital after undergoing an emergency medical procedure on July 26, 2017. “My ...

Iran Shrugs Off US Demand for Release of Imprisoned Citizens

Iran Shrugs Off US Demand for Release of Imprisoned Citizens

July 27, 2017

Iranian-American citizens imprisoned in Iran include 80-year-old Baquer Namazi (left), ...

Telegram’s Efforts to Increase Download Speed in Iran Raises Questions   

Telegram’s Efforts to Increase Download Speed in Iran Raises Questions   

July 27, 2017

Placement of Telegram CDNs in Iran Requires Increased Transparency June 27, 2017—In light of the decision by the messaging application Telegram to use closed content delivery networks (CDNs) —caching servers that allow faster delivery of ...

Political Prisoners Including Swedish Resident Hidden from Ambassadors During Evin Prison Visit

Political Prisoners Including Swedish Resident Hidden from Ambassadors During Evin Prison Visit

July 22, 2017

Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali and his wife, Vida Mehran-nia. Shortly before Iranian officials took the Swedish and ...

Impoverished Children Without Identification Documents Deprived of Education in Iran

Impoverished Children Without Identification Documents Deprived of Education in Iran

July 22, 2017

Children without state-issued identification documents mostly from Iran’s underdeveloped border provinces are being denied education in Iran, attorney Osman Mozayan told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Iran ...

UNESCO 2030 Educational Guidelines Scrapped by Iran Include Essential Protective Measures Against Child Abuse

UNESCO 2030 Educational Guidelines Scrapped by Iran Include Essential Protective Measures Against Child Abuse

July 20, 2017

Religious conservatives in Iran ...

Married Women in Iran Still Need “Permission” to Travel Abroad Under Amendment to Passport Law

Married Women in Iran Still Need “Permission” to Travel Abroad Under Amendment to Passport Law

July 18, 2017

Member of Parliament Parvaneh Salashouri (left) and human rights lawyer Farideh Gheirat (right). An amendment proposed by ...

Cartoon 171: Privacy in Iran

Cartoon 171: Privacy in Iran

July 18, 2017

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Activist and Mother of Slain Protestor Summoned to Court Same Day Intelligence Minister Denounces Arrests of Activists

Activist and Mother of Slain Protestor Summoned to Court Same Day Intelligence Minister Denounces Arrests of Activists

July 14, 2017

Human rights activist Shahnaz Akmali was summoned to court for unspecified charges on the same day the head of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry—the authority that initially arrested her—announced his ...

Contradictory Laws Exasperate Debate Over Iranian Women’s Observance of Hijab in Cars

Contradictory Laws Exasperate Debate Over Iranian Women’s Observance of Hijab in Cars

July 14, 2017

The growing number of women refusing to cover their hair while driving in Iran, especially during the hot summer months, has resulted in renewed threats of arrests for ...

Staged Visit by Foreign Ambassadors to Iran’s Evin Prison Condemned by Rights Activists

Staged Visit by Foreign Ambassadors to Iran’s Evin Prison Condemned by Rights Activists

July 13, 2017

A member of the German embassy enters Evin Prison on a red carpet. Abusive Conditions and Political Prisoners Hidden from Visitors A state-choreographed ...

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