Grave and Baseless New Charges Against Imprisoned Iranian-American and Wife
March 10, 2017—Serious and baseless new charges have been brought against Karan Vafadari and Afarin Neyssari, ...
March 10, 2017—Serious and baseless new charges have been brought against Karan Vafadari and Afarin Neyssari, ...
In a joint statement 20 human rights organizations urged the Iranian authorities to stop their attempts to silence human rights defenders and others seeking to shed light on past atrocities. ...
Behrouz Tavakkoli, an elderly former Baha’i community leader who has spent nearly nine years in prison for his faith, is legally eligible for ...
Imprisoned spiritual thinker Mohammad Ali Taheri has again been tried for the charge of “corruption on earth” despite being cleared of the same charge in 2015, his sister Azardokht Taheri told the ...
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are preventing the hospitalization of political prisoner Arash ...
Two Iranian Catholic converts have been arrested in their home by the Revolutionary Guards ...
Some Prisoners Attacked With “Brass Knuckles and Knives” The authorities of Evin Prison in Tehran are violating Iranian law by refusing ...
For the time being, a powerful hardline cleric implicated in major human rights violations, Ebrahim Raisi, has ruled ...
Rouhani Officials Ignore Djalali’s Wife’s Letters Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali is protesting his detainment in ...
Update: Farzaneh Jalali was released on March 13, 2017, according to a post on her Facebook page. Farzaneh Jalali, an Iranian-Kurdish ...
Detained since December 2016, Tahereh Riahi, the social affairs editor of the state-funded Borna News Agency...
The daughter of an imprisoned prominent human rights lawyer has accused Iran’s hardline Intelligence Minister ...
A former member of Parliament and Iranian-Kurdish rights activist, Jalal Jalalizadeh, has strongly criticized the Islamic Republic’s refusal ...
Four Iranian ethnic Azerbaijanis have been issued long prison sentences for peacefully defending their rights, the Campaign for Human ...
Ahmad Montazeri (right) with his wife Zahra Amlashi. ...
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has written to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali ...
Iranian-American dual citizen Reza (Robin) Shahini, currently serving an 18-year prison sentence in ...
Iranian Sunni cleric Molavi Abdolhamid Ismaeelzahi (right) greets Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (left). Iran’s ...
Twitter’s growth in Iran can be tracked through three distinct stages; when it was ...
Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali, detained in Iran since April 2016, began a ...
A court has rejected charges brought by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Courts (IRGC) against Onsieh Daemi and Hanieh ...
Some Conservatives Side With Reformist Leader Khatami Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s refusal of an offer to achieve “national reconciliation” in Iran by ending ...
Update: Leila Haghighatjou was released on February 19, 2017 on bail set at 220 million tomans ($68,000 USD). Leila Haghighatjou, the ...
The son of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, who has been detained under ...
Ali Kab-Aomair, a 17-year-old ethnic Arab activist, has been held incommunicado since he was violently arrested on February ...