The campaign headquarters of reformists in Khorasan Razavi Province, northeastern Iran, was shuttered on May 2, 2017—three weeks before the country’s presidential and local council elections on May 19, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. ...
Atena Daemi, a human rights activist serving a ...
Since Ebrahim Raisi announced his candidacy for Iran’s presidency, videos have been ...
Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi, who served on a ...
A professional soccer player who once played for the Iranian women’s national futsal team has publicly spoken out against a ...
Instagram’s live video feature has been blocked in Tehran by several internet ...
Three 24-year-olds have been sentenced to 12 years in prison each in Iran for posting critical commentary about ...
Political parties and factions in Iran should promote more women candidates in the country’s local council elections to ...
The American lawyer representing ailing Iranian-Americans Siamak Namazi and his father, Baquer, serving 10-year sentences in Iran for unspecified espionage ...
Issa Saharkhiz Facing New Trial Reformist political commentator Issa Saharkhiz and former political activist ...
In a surprising development, a few outspoken and prominent political activists have been approved to run in Iran’s elections for city and village councils on May 19, 2017. However, many well-known activists and reformists have been arbitrarily disqualified. ...
Supreme Court Upholds Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Five-Year Prison Sentence The husband of Nazanin-Zaghari Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British citizen ...
The Guardian Council’s attempt to ban religious minorities from running in Iran’s nationwide local council elections ...
Payam Shakiba, a political science graduate student at Tehran’s Allameh Tabataba’i University, has been held in ...
Ahmadreza Jalali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident detained in Evin Prison since ...
One month before Iranians head to the polls, a senior commander of ...
Seven Baha’i citizens were arrested by the Intelligence Ministry in Bandar Abbas and Qeshm ...
Seventy-two student organizations from universities throughout Iran have issued a ...
In the run-up to Iran’s May 19, 2017 presidential election, a Sunni Muslim former member of ...
Iran’s judiciary has ordered internet companies to block the Telegram messaging ...
Women's rights advocate Nahid Tavasoli is the editor-in-chief of Nafe, an academic women’s periodical. The low number of female participants in Iranian ...
Iranian media outlets have been ordered to stop reporting on former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s ...
The presidential bid of ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi has been strongly criticized by supporters of human rights. In 1988, Raisi ...
Imprisoned children and human rights activist Atena Daemi...
