Iran’s Parliament Votes to Allow Blind Candidates to Run for Seats
Amendment Requires Guardian Council’s Approval After years of advocacy efforts by defenders of the rights of ...
Amendment Requires Guardian Council’s Approval After years of advocacy efforts by defenders of the rights of ...
A member of the Isfahan City Council, Mehdi Moghaddari, has been suspended from his seat for six months ...
The Iranian government and judiciary are intensifying a nationwide crackdown on civil society and beyond to stifle any form ...
Supporters Barred from Court Room *Editor's note: Mojtaba Dadashi was taken to prison in the city of Sabzevar ...
Three staff members of Gam news, an independent Persian-language news ...
Newly released from prison, civil rights activist Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi...
Dozens of Sufi Gonabadi dervishes, a persecuted religious minority in Iran, have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms since mass protests in February 2018 turned violent, resulting in the deaths of five members of Iran's armed forces and one Sufi ...
Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi Denies Future Presidential Bid Amid rumors that Iran’s Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi ...
Political activist Hengameh Shahidi is in poor health after a nine-month stint in solitary confinement, ...
Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi was Iran’s first female judge before being forced to ...
Iranians Ask Why Apps that Could Hasten Relief Remain Blocked State filters on social media apps have reduced the ...
The appointment by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei of a known human rights violator to head the country’s ...
Hassan Sadeghi and Fatemeh Mosanna Denied Medical Treatment The family of two political prisoners is facing homelessness now that they’ve ...
Lengthy Prison Terms Shows Effort to Deter Rights Advocacy (New York, March 20, 2019) – The ...
Spring is in the air and for millions of people around the world including Iran, it marks the beginning of ...
Husband Publishes Sotoudeh’s Verdict Notes, Addressing Discrepancies Refusing to legitimize the unjust judicial process in Iran, in which defendants held on ...
Majid Shoja, Police Chief Three prisoners accused ...
Sentences Range from Six to 26 Years Including Lashes March 15, 2019 – The mass conviction of 23 dervishes ...
A coalition of diverse human rights organizations have signed an open letter supporting the renewal of the UN special rapporteur's ...
Iranian students clash with riot police during an anti-government ...
Iranian defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has been detained in Evin Prison under national ...
The diplomatic service and foreign and defence ministry of the EU, European Union External Action (EEAS), has condemned the conviction of prominent Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh and urged Iran ...
[Editor's Note: Based on Nasrin Sotoudeh's written notes of her verdict (she was denied a physical copy), which she ...