Proposal Aims to Allow Authorities to Hold Detainees For at Least 20 Days Without Counsel
On May 5, 2019, the Iranian Parliament’s Judicial and Legal Affairs Committee approved a problematic proposal that would ...
On May 5, 2019, the Iranian Parliament’s Judicial and Legal Affairs Committee approved a problematic proposal that would ...
Iran’s minister of education has called on the police to trace the “source” of what he described as “disturbing videos” of schoolchildren cheerfully dancing to a pop song by US-based Iranian singer Sasy Mankan. The videos are part of an ...
Iran’s minister of education has called on the police to trace the “source” of what he described as ...
(9 May 2019) – UN human rights experts* called on Iran to immediately halt the practice of ...
An adviser to President Hassan Rouhani was met with protesters at Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran ...
Hamid Fatehi, a ...
Several workers’ rights activists including teachers who were arrested at rallies in Tehran on May 1 (International ...
Marzieh Amiri, a reporter for the reformist Shargh newspaper, has been in Evin Prison’s Ward 209 under the control of the Intelligence ...
Political activist Siavash Rezaeian has been told to report to a prison in central Iran for ...
Prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi was recently taken from Evin Prison to a hospital in Tehran ...
UN, GENEVA (3 May 2019) – The execution of two 17-year-old boys in Iran on charges of rape and robbery, after a trial that appears to have seriously ...
Charity worker Akram Nasirian was arrested by unidentified security agents in Tehran for unknown reasons, according to the ...
The trial of three board members of the Iranian Writers Association (IWA) was held at Branch 28 of the ...
“People Lack Buying Power, Writers Lack Inspiration,” Says Novelist Several books by dissident authors in Iran were banned from ...
University students in Iran could be punished for engaging in online activities deemed by the government as “unethical” ...
“The authorities…refuse to accept the fact that they have condemned a woman lawyer to suffer the inhuman act ...
Kamal Jafari Yazdi Had a Change of Heart After the 2009 Protests Kamal Jafari Yazdi, a former staunch supporter of the Iranian government, ...
Some Internet Users in Iran Warned of Prosecution for Accessing Blacklisted Websites In 2019, Iranian media outlets began ...
Sufi political prisoner Sima Entesari was beaten by an inmate who claims she was promised a case review ...
At Least Three Lawyers Currently Imprisoned in Iran Detained defense attorney Amirsalar Davoudi is facing four charges for running a Telegram app ...
Iranian actress Maryam Moghaddam (also referred to as Moqadam), has written an open letter to Iran’s Minister of ...
In April 2019, Instagram began taking down accounts under the names of current and former members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), stating it was do so in accordance with US sanctions law. Iranian officials responded by threatening to ...
Some Iranian officials have responded to Instagram’s decision to remove accounts it has associated with the Islamic Revolutionary ...
Editor's Note: On April 24, 2019, Judiciary Spokesman Gholam-Hossein Esmaili told reporters that all outstanding sentences in ...