UN SRs on Human Rights Banned From Visiting Since 2005 The new special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, has requested that Iran ...
Meysami Intensifies Hunger Strike and Calls For Release of Reza Khandan Imprisoned civil rights activist Farhad Meysami has resisted medical treatment in Evin Prison in Iran to bring attention to his ...
Denial of Medical Care to Political Prisoners Routine in Iran October 1, 2018 – Iranian authorities should immediately free political prisoner Arash Sadeghi so he can receive medical care for serious health issues that require urgent ...
For the first time in more than three years, imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi was granted furlough for three days to visit her severely ill ...
Detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has written a letter to her 12-year-old son, Nima, explaining why she and her husband—also detained in Iran’s Evin Prison—can’t be ...
With President Hassan Rouhani in New York attending the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Center for Human Rights in Iran has urged UNGA attendees to directly address the worsening human rights situation in Iran. Diplomats should raise the issue of the arrests of peaceful activists, lawyers and others with Rouhani and the international ...
Mobile Billboard with Photos of Iran’s Political Prisoners to Circle UN Headquarters During Meetings September 19, 2018—As President Hassan Rouhani comes to NY to attend the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Center for ...
Detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has given up her family visitation right in protest against a prosecutor’s demand that she receive visitors fully draped in a ...
Seven human rights lawyers have been arrested in Iran since January 2018 as the state escalates its assault against its own legal profession and its flagrant violations of basic rights of freedom of expression and due process. “The authorities in Iran arrested these lawyers for the same reason all the other human right defenders are ...
The mother of imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has urged Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi to allow the ailing political prisoner to go on furlough...
In a letter from Iran’s Evin Prison, prominent human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has condemned the judiciary’s execution of three Kurdish prisoners on ...
Seven Lawyers Now Behind Bars with More Summoned or Banned from Work *On September 6, after publication of this article, the lawyers Payam Derafshan and Farrokh Firouzan were released on bail of 110 million ...
Women’s rights activists Hoda Amid and Najmeh Vahedi were arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization in Tehran on September 1, 2018 and taken to an unknown location, ...
State Harassment, Arrest of Family Members to Silence Dissent Intensifies in Iran September 4, 2018—Reza Khandan, the husband of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, should be ...
Sotoudeh Facing Seven “National Security” Charges as Judiciary Continues to Build Case Against Her Prominent defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has gone on hunger strike and refused to appear in court to protest her unjust detainment ...
Arash Keykhosravi, a lawyer representing the family of an Iranian Canadian man who recently died under suspicious circumstances in state custody, has been slapped with national security charges, making him the fourth defense attorney detained under this pretense in Iran in less than a year. Former moderate lawmaker Ghasem Sholeh Sa’di ...
“They’re going to use the pins as criminal evidence, as if they had found bombs” Iranian security agents raided the homes of detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh...
Iranian defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh was detained on June 13, 2018, and is facing several national security charges for her peaceful defense ...
Iranian defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has been detained in Evin Prison under national security charges since June 13, 2018. Prominent Human Rights Attorney Facing Five-Year Prison Sentence and Three ...
Prominent Rights Defender Has Lost 16 Pounds in Short Time Span The husband of prominent Iranian political prisoner Narges Mohammadi has called on Iran’s judiciary to release ...
Seven Human Rights Lawyers Detained or Blocked from Working in Iran in Less Than a Year August 14, 2018—An intensifying state crackdown on human rights defenders in Iran, in which the authorities have denied attorneys the ability to represent their clients and jailed them for attempting to do ...
Abdolfattah Soltani poses for a family photo. His daughter, Homa (right), passed away on August 4, 2018. Soltani Granted Furlough to Mourn Daughter’s Death One of ...
Iran’s judiciary has extended the detention of prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is facing two national security charges for peacefully engaging in her profession. ...
From her cell in an infamous Iranian prison, imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has condemned Iran’s judiciary for preventing her sister from traveling to France to visit ...
Even as a political prisoner in Iran, Arash Sadeghi is still putting the needs of others above his own. In his love letters to his wife, Golrokh, he imagines a free and fair world where they can be in ...