Vahid Sayyadi-Nasiri Was on Hunger Strike to Protest Denial of Counsel and Prison Conditions Growing Crisis as Political Prisoners Left with No Recourse but to Refuse Food ...
Iranian political prisoner Saeed Shirzad could lose a kidney if Iranian authorities continue to refuse to hospitalize him outside of Rajaee Shahr Prison where he has been held for ...
Four months after 19 university students in Iran were issued harsh prison sentences for attending protests, the country’s president declared that Iran’s ...
Editor's Update: Esmail Bakhshi was released on bail on November 21, 2018, and Sepideh Gholian on December 18. Both were freed on bail. Detained labor activists Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh ...
Imprisoned human rights lawyer Mohammad Najafi appeared at Branch 1 of Iran’s Revolutionary Court in Arak, Markazi Province, to face four additional charges that could ...
Kobra Kamrani holds a sign that says "Ebrahim Firoozi." While battling breast cancer for the past ...
Civil rights activist Reza Khandan (left) ...
At Least Four Academics and One Scientist With Foreign Ties Detained in Iran Since 2016 *Editor's Note: This article was corrected on December 6, 2018, to reflect that Mohammad Jalal Abbasi ...
Detained labor activist Esmail Bakhshi was hospitalized after being tortured under interrogation, according to Iranian labor sources. Bakhshi’s colleague Ali Nejati was also arrested by security ...
Dozens of conservation practitioners and scholars, including renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, have issued an impassioned defense of eight of their colleagues who have been detained ...
Davoudi Eighth Human Rights Attorney to Be Jailed in Iran in Last Six Months Editor's Update: A one-month detention order has been issued against Amirsalar Davoudi, his lawyer, Vahid Moshkani Farahani, told the ...
Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh started a second hunger strike on November 26, 2018, to protest the Iranian authorities’ refusal to allow ailing fellow political prisoner ...
Beloved Blogger Broke Taboos by Writing About Political and Social Issues with Humor November 29, 2018—The death in exile of prominent Iranian satirist Alireza Rezaei has prompted an outpouring ...
Farhad Meysami (left), ...
Dorri Amri (Esmailpour), 44, began serving her one-year prison sentence in Vakilabad Prison in the Iranian city of Mashhad on November 14, 2018, for allegedly propagating her Baha’i faith, a source with ...
Iranian security and judicial authorities responded to the second round of peaceful teachers' rights strikes by arresting and summoning alleged participants in several cities across the nation. ...
Editor's Note: This resolution was passed December 17, 2018, with 84 voting for, 30 against and 67 in abstention: http://undocs.org/A/73/589/Add.3. Serious Concern Expressed for Unlawful Executions and Arbitrary Detentions November 19, 2018 – ...
Iranian authorities have relocated the buried corpse of a deceased member of the Baha’i faith to a different cemetery without the family’s permission, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...
Workers from the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (NSIG) in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, held rallies November 10-14, 2018, demanding two months of unpaid salaries and in protest against the ...
Bill Claims to Protect “Digital Borders” by Trampling Internet Freedom, Privacy After repeated denials by Iranian officials about the existence of a bill that ...
Mohammad Najafi May Also Be Flogged Despite Health Concerns November 12, 2018—The attorney Mohammad Najafi is being imprisoned unlawfully while his appeal process is underway and should be released immediately, said ...
Unidentified security agents detained journalist Masoud Kazemi in Tehran on November 5, 2018, making him the second known case of a journalist being arrested in the Iranian capital within the ...
Tehran-based trade union activists Ebrahim Madadi (right) and Davoud Razavi have both ...
Dozens of Sufi prisoners are being illegally held in a ward for drug-addicted prisoners in the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP), one of their ...
Shiraz City Council member Mehdi Hajati made national news in Iran after he was arrested for seeking the release of two Baha'is who were arrested for their faith, which is severely persecuted ...