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Cartoon 130: Infiltration

Cartoon 130: Infiltration

November 30, 2015

Hardliners in Iran’s Parliament, Judiciary, and Revolutionary Guards are intensifying a broad crackdown on supporters of human rights and free elections, in a campaign underpinned by supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s assertion that the US seeks to ...

Political Prisoner’s Health Deteriorating as His Hunger Strike Enters Fourth Week

Political Prisoner’s Health Deteriorating as His Hunger Strike Enters Fourth Week

November 25, 2015

The political prisoner Majid Azarpey is in extremely poor health since beginning a wet hunger strike (refusing solid foods) in Evin Prison on November 3, 2015 to protest his sentence.  Azarpey’s mother, Mina Dena, ...

Popular Instant Messaging Applications Severely Interrupted in Iran

Popular Instant Messaging Applications Severely Interrupted in Iran

November 21, 2015

A month after a warning by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Center for Investigation of Organized Crime that the use of Telegram violated Iran’s crime laws, access to the popular messaging network in Iran was ...

Largest Wave of Arrests by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Since 2009

Largest Wave of Arrests by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Since 2009

November 19, 2015

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Khamenei Rails against US “Plots” and Authorities Chime in with Crackdown

Khamenei Rails against US “Plots” and Authorities Chime in with Crackdown

November 19, 2015

A photo posted on Ayatollah Khamenei's official website highlighting ...

Journalist’s One-Year Prison Sentence and Two-Year Ban on Media Upheld

Journalist’s One-Year Prison Sentence and Two-Year Ban on Media Upheld

November 18, 2015

Reyhaneh Tabatabaie Facebook Posts and Reformist Affiliations Are Her “Crimes” The journalist Reyhaneh Tabatabaie, 35, has been informed that the Appeals Court has approved her ...

Cartoon 129: For Imprisoned Cartoonist Hadi Heidari

Cartoon 129: For Imprisoned Cartoonist Hadi Heidari

November 18, 2015

Security forces arrested the prominent Iranian cartoonist Hadi Heidari in his office at Shahrvand Daily in Tehran today, November 16, 2015. Two co-workers of Heidari at the Tehran daily confirmed the arrest and ...

Journalist Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Her Facebook Posts

Journalist Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Her Facebook Posts

November 18, 2015

Solmaz Ikdar The journalist Solmaz Ikdar has been sentenced to three years in prison for “insulting the Supreme Leader” and “propaganda against the state.” The charges were ...

Fifteen Baha’is Arrested by Rouhani’s Intelligence Ministry

Fifteen Baha’is Arrested by Rouhani’s Intelligence Ministry

November 17, 2015

In a fresh crackdown on Iran’s Baha’i community, one of the most persecuted religious minorities in Iran, 15 followers of the faith were simultaneously arrested in Tehran, Isfahan, and Mashhad on November 15, 2015, by ...

Women Drivers Not Wearing Hijab Face Tough Police Action

Women Drivers Not Wearing Hijab Face Tough Police Action

November 17, 2015

Cars driven by women who do not observe the hijab (head covering for women) will be impounded and fines will be imposed, according to strict new regulations by Iran’s police force. In addition, ...

Prisoner of Conscience on Hunger Strike Transferred to Clinic as His Condition Worsens

Prisoner of Conscience on Hunger Strike Transferred to Clinic as His Condition Worsens

November 17, 2015

Fourteen days after prisoner of conscience Ali Shariati embarked on a hunger strike to protest the judicial process of his case, he remains on strike inside Evin Prison. His condition was defined as “very worrying” ...

Prominent Cartoonist Hadi Heidari Arrested

Prominent Cartoonist Hadi Heidari Arrested

November 16, 2015

Hadi Heidari’s last cartoon was related to the terrorist attacks in Paris. Security forces arrested the ...

Cartoon 127: Who Will be Arrested Tomorrow?

Cartoon 127: Who Will be Arrested Tomorrow?

November 15, 2015

Reacting to the recent arrests of Iranian journalists by the IRGC, and extensive articles on the subject on ultra-conservative media such as Kayhan and Fars News Agency, the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said during ...

Cartoon 126: Khamenei’s Green Light for Press Crackdown

Cartoon 126: Khamenei’s Green Light for Press Crackdown

November 10, 2015

Several journalists were arrested in Iran over the past week in an intensifying campaign of repression that is based on the belief, spearheaded by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei, that the US intends to ...

Arrests Gather Pace in Iran after Khamenei Gives Green Light for Crackdown

Arrests Gather Pace in Iran after Khamenei Gives Green Light for Crackdown

November 9, 2015

Fear of Post-Nuclear Deal Rapprochement with West Drives Intensified Repression November 9, 2015—Several journalists were arrested in Iran over the past week in an intensifying campaign of repression that is based on ...

Prominent Reformist Journalist Arrested for “Insulting Supreme Leader”

Prominent Reformist Journalist Arrested for “Insulting Supreme Leader”

November 8, 2015

The political journalist Issa Saharkhiz has been arrested on charges of “intending to disrupt national security,” “propaganda against the state,” and “insulting the Supreme Leader,” according to his son Mehdi.  ...

Washington Post OpEd: Free Omid Kokabee, another Iranian prisoner of conscience

Washington Post OpEd: Free Omid Kokabee, another Iranian prisoner of conscience

November 2, 2015

By Herbert L. Berk October 30 Herbert L. Berk is chairman of the American Physical Society’s Committee ...

Clerical Battles over Legally Sanctioned Retaliatory Killings and Stoning Continues in Iran

Clerical Battles over Legally Sanctioned Retaliatory Killings and Stoning Continues in Iran

October 30, 2015

Controversy over Strict Adherence to Islamic Law Dates Back to 1979 Revolution A battle over the necessity of strict adherence to Islamic law, including Quranic punishments that in modern times have been designated by the UN ...

Let Iranian Women Go to Stadiums

Let Iranian Women Go to Stadiums

October 30, 2015

In this new video and Twitter campaign, Let Iranian Women Go to Stadiums, the Campaign and Human Rights Watch speak out against the Iranian government’s ban on women at sport stadiums, and ask viewers to tell the International Volleyball Federation not to allow Iran to host Federation games ...

Reformist Journalist Freed from Prison after Serving Four Years

Reformist Journalist Freed from Prison after Serving Four Years

October 30, 2015

Alireza Rajaei The prominent journalist Alireza Rajaee has been released from prison upon completion of a four-year sentence for his journalistic work and peaceful political activism. Rajaee, a ...

Revolutionary Guards Treat Protesting Teachers as Agitators, Lawyer Says

Revolutionary Guards Treat Protesting Teachers as Agitators, Lawyer Says

October 30, 2015

Peyman Haj-Mahmoud Attar, the lawyer for the Teachers Association of Iran The intelligence unit of the Revolutionary Guards considers ...

Iran Should Allow UN Human Rights Expert into Country

Iran Should Allow UN Human Rights Expert into Country

October 29, 2015

International Community Should Pursue Human Rights with Same Commitment as the Nuclear Deal October 29, 2015—The international community should urge Iranian authorities to allow the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, into the country, said the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and ...

Prominent Iranian Reformist Politician Sentenced to Six Years in Prison

Prominent Iranian Reformist Politician Sentenced to Six Years in Prison

October 27, 2015

Esmaeil Gerami Moghaddam Esmail Gerami Moghaddam, a former Member of Parliament and spokesman for a reformist party has been sentenced to six years in prison. Moghaddam’s lawyer, Nemat ...

Congressman Keith Ellison Calls for Immediate Release of Washington Post Reporter Jason Rezaian

Congressman Keith Ellison Calls for Immediate Release of Washington Post Reporter Jason Rezaian

October 27, 2015

The US Congressional Representative from Minnesota, Keith Ellison, called today in a video message for the “unconditional release of Jason Rezaian.” “I call on the Iranian government to recognize that the truth should never be a crime, and Rezaian must be released immediately,” said Congressman Ellison, in an exclusive ...

Arrested Student Activist Under Intense Pressure to Make False Confession, Says Family

Arrested Student Activist Under Intense Pressure to Make False Confession, Says Family

October 27, 2015

Amin Anvari’s mother, Farah Bakhshi Student activist Amin Anvari, 21, who received a suspended prison sentence earlier this year for Facebook postings promoting basic civil ...

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