Cartoon 155: Proud
Just a few weeks after the publication of a 1988 audio recording on the late Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri's website ...
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Cartoon 154: Bandwidth
In a meeting with the Minister of Communications, conservative cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi recommended allocating the bandwidth ...
Twenty-Year Old On Death Row After “Confessing” on Promise of Freedom
Death Sentence for Posting “Anti-Islamic” Content on Social Media Sina Dehghan was just 19-years-old when the Revolutionary ...
Translator in Prison for One Year Without Knowing Charges; Her Lawyer Denied Access to Case File
Translator Marjan Davari has been held in Evin Prison’s Women’s Ward for almost a year without ...
Hospitalized Christian Convert Ordered Back to Prison
Imprisoned Christian convert Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran, who has been hospitalized since August 21, 2016 ...
Five-Year Prison Sentence for Dual National Casts Shadow Over Iran’s Opening to World
Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe’s Sentence Announced Two Weeks Before Rouhani Comes to NY September 12, 2016—The five-year prison sentence for Nazanin Zaghari ...
Journalist’s Prison Sentence Reduced to Two Years, with Two-Year Ban on Reporting
The 10-year prison sentence of newspaper columnist Afarin Chitsaz has been reduced to two years on appeal and ...
Iranian Judiciary Must Stop Punishing Media for Reporting Officials’ Corruption
September 9, 2016—Iran’s Judiciary must halt the prosecution of media outlets which carried out their journalist duty in ...
Head of Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council Defends Wave of Executions
In less than a month, between August 2 and August 27, 2016, at least 37 prisoners were executed in ...
More Than 100 Prominent Iranians Ask UN to Declare 1988 Massacre “Crime Against Humanity”
This article has been updated on September 12, 2016 to reflect the correct number of original signatories. In a letter ...
Iranian Women Made History at Rio Olympics
First Olympic Medal Won despite Little Official Support in Iran The Islamic Republic of Iran participated in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with 63 athletes, only nine of whom ...
Labor Activists Put on Trial After Hundreds of Workers Protest Unpaid Wages
Labor activists Jafar Azimzadeh and Shapour Ehsani-Rad...
Iran’s Security Establishment is Targeting the Students of an Imprisoned Spiritual Leader
Vahid Pourtahmasb is the fifth student of Mohammad Ali Taheri to have been arrested since 2015. Another student of imprisoned ...
Judiciary Summons Woman for Seeking Answers About Infant Niece’s Disappearance
Rahleh Rahemipour has been summoned to Evin Prison by the Judiciary and questioned for demanding answers about her missing ...
Christians, Including Pastor’s Son, Arrested at Picnic Near Tehran
A Christian and four Christian converts were arrested on August 26, 2016 by the Intelligence Ministry near Tehran, the ...
Hackers Exploit Android Phone Security Flaw to Target Activists
Suspected state-sponsored hackers have intensified their attempts to break into the online accounts of Iranian rights activists ...
Unjustly Imprisoned Young Physicist Granted Conditional Release After Five Years
Omid Kokabee’s Release Comes After Months Struggling with Kidney Cancer That Was Left Untreated in Prison August 29, 2016—Imprisoned ...
Recording on 1988 Prison Massacre Exposes Early Fissure in the Islamic Republic of Iran
The recently released audio recording of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri sharply denouncing ...
Judiciary Blocking Compensation for False Arrests
High Number of False Arrests Would Require Large Payout More than a year after Iran’s new ...
Overcoming Obstacles: Leila Vaziri & the Nine Female Olympians from Iran
What does it take for a woman to overcome the challenges and make it to the Olympics? Watch world champion Leila Varizi in this video and join the Campaign in saluting the 9 Iranian women ...
Elderly Pro-Democracy Activist Sentenced to Four Years in Prison
The four-year prison sentence handed down to imprisoned author and peaceful political activist Kourosh Zaim has no legal basis and the 77-year-old should be immediately released because of ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh: “Hardliners are trying to open a new case against me”
Prominent Human Rights Lawyer is Summoned to Court Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer and former political prisoner, has been summoned to ...
Prominent Labor Activist’s Wife Awaits Verdict for Alleged Facebook Post
Najibeh Salehzadeh was never shown the “evidence” Najibeh Salehzadeh, who says she was falsely charged for ...
Reformist Journalist’s Prison Sentence Reduced on Appeal
The prison sentence of reformist journalist Ehsan (Saman) Safarzaei has been reduced from five to two years, the International Campaign for Human ...
Cartoon 153: Silencing Montazeri
Following publication of the audio file of a 1988 meeting in which the late Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri ...