Iranian Government Dictated to Local Media How to Cover Protests, New Documents Reveal
Journalists Will Be Charged with “Crimes” if Coverage Diverges from Official Line Officials Expected Protests, Dictated Instructions to Media ...
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Initial Reports Show Thousands Arrested in Iran’s Crackdown on November Protests
*This article was updated with additional details on November 25. Early Tally Indicates at Least 4,000 Arrests as Concerns Mount for Detainees Smeared by State Media as “Rioters” In the wake of preliminary ...
UN Raises Alarm at Arrests and Reported Killings, Internet Shutdown
Javaid Rehman, the special rapporteur on the human rights situation ...
State-Developed VPN Would Determine Iranians’ Internet Access Based on Their Job
Hamid Fattahi, the CEO of the state-owned Telecommunication Infrastructure Company (TIC), the ...
EU Calls on Iran’s Security Forces to Exercise “Maximum Restraint” in Handling Protests
Violence “Unacceptable,” Free Flow of Information Must Be Ensured The European Union’s External Action Committee, which manages the EU's diplomatic relations with other countries and conducts EU foreign and security ...
Children in Iran Should Be Protected from Numerous Rights Violations
The age of criminal responsibility in Iran is 9 for girls and 15 for boys, despite international law that defines anyone under age 18 as a child ...
Lethal and Excessive Force Against Protestors in Iran Must Cease, News Blackout Must End
November 19, 2019—The authorities’ use of excessive force against protestors in Iran, which has included the use of live ammunition and has resulted in dozens of deaths, is a blatant and unjustifiable violation of international law and must cease, the ...
UN Calls on Iran to Avoid Force, Respect Right to Protest
State security forces have used violent and deadly force to repress protests that erupted in dozens of cities in Iran during the evening ...
Officials Confirm One Death After Protests Erupt in Iran After Sudden Fuel Price Hike
Protesters in Shiraz. Numerous Unconfirmed Reports of Casualties, Injured After ...
Legal Expert Says Sweden Has Authority to Prosecute Iranian Man Connected with 1988 Mass Executions
Hamid Nouri, in Swedish Custody, Linked to Death Commissions that Ordered the Extrajudicial ...
Lawyer Protests Unjust Sentence by Refusing Sham Appeal Process, Demands Judicial Review
Imprisoned attorney Amirsalar Davoudi, the latest human rights attorney to be sentenced to a lengthy prison ...
Promote Respect for All on the International Day for Tolerance
November 16 Marks the International Day for Tolerance The International Day for Tolerance, declared by UNESCO in 1995, ...
Honor Student Barred from Completing Graduate Studies Because of His Religious Faith
Member of Yarasan Religious Minority is Expelled from Razi University in Iran Siavash Hayati, spokesman for the minority ...
Man Imprisoned for Protesting Compulsory Hijab Punished by New Evin Prison Director
Farhad Meysami at a protest in Tehran beside current political ...
Detained Kurdish Teacher Falsely Accused of Security Charges, Sister Says
Held Almost Six Months, Over Two Months Incommunicado, Even As Family Has Posted Bail Kurdish language teacher ...
Conservationists Slapped with New Charge 22 Months After Being Arrested by Revolutionary Guards
Fate of Detainees Unclear Despite Intervention by Supreme Leader Nearly two years after they were first detained in Tehran, eight conservationists have been charged with “cooperation with U.S. and Israeli enemy states against the Islamic ...
Imprisoned Sufi Dervishes Launch Hunger Strike Demanding Freedom of Movement for Ailing Spiritual Leader
More than 70 imprisoned members of the Sufi Gonabadi Order began a hunger strike in early November to honor their ailing spiritual leader Nour-Ali Tabandeh, who had been ...
Former Political Prisoner Arrested at “Cyrus Day” Celebration
The tomb of Cyrus the Great, a UNESCO protected world ...
Iran Releases Seven Political Prisoners on Bail Without Explanation
Six Prisoners Posted Extraordinarily High Bail, Unclear Why Fellow Prisoners of Conscience Remain Jailed A Christian ...
“I Will Turn My Body Into a Weapon,” Writes Detained Women’s Rights Activist on Hunger Strike
Detained women’s rights activist Atefeh Rangriz has been on hunger strike in Gharchak Prison, south of Tehran, since October ...
14 Women Activists to Be Prosecuted for Demanding Supreme Leader’s Resignation
The prosecution of 14 women who signed a statement demanding the resignation of Iran’s Supreme ...
Judicial Order Seeks to Block Iranians’ Access to Google Play App Store
Move Would Limit Iranians to State-Controlled App Store, Vulnerable to State Surveillance, Malware A judicial order to block Google Play in Iran, ...
Reign of Evin Prison’s New Director Begins with Denial of Political Prisoners’ Rights
Female Prisoners of Conscience Denied Phone Contact with Children The appointment of Gholamreza Ziaei, former director of two disreputable ...
Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi Has Been Separated from Her Children for Five Years and Counting
Imprisoned human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has not been able to hold her two children since 2015, for ...
