Imprisoned Epileptic Journalist Denied Request for Early Release
Reformist Writer Has Not Had Access to His Lawyer Since 2014 Imprisoned reformist journalist Ahmad Asgari, who suffers from ...
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Charges Against Iranian-American Reflect Iran’s Lasting Paranoia over Mass Protests of 2009
Detained Iranian-American Robin (Reza) Shahini has been formally charged with “acting against national security,” ...
Rights groups condemn recent execution of Kurdish prisoners and call for an immediate moratorium on all executions in Iran
Geneva - Iranian authorities must immediately put a halt to the execution of Kurdish political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, 22 human rights ...
Sunni Cleric Charged with Anti-State Activities for Criticizing Mass Execution
Hassan Amini, a Sunni cleric and Islamic judge based in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s ...
Android Phone Users in Iran Face New Threat by Hackers
Popular Telegram App Remains Main Target Hackers posing as friends are using ...
Rouhani Battles Religious Hardliners Over Concert Cancellations in Iran
A simmering battle between the government of President Hassan Rouhani and hardline religious figures over music concerts ...
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Tries to Hide Evidence of Massacre of Thousands of Political Prisoners in 1988
Recording of Ayatollah Montazeri’s Plea to Stop the Executions is Taken Off Website An audio file of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri—the once ...
Man Imprisoned for Facebook Posts Seeks Reduced Sentence
Soheil Arabi, whose death sentence for “insulting the prophet” was struck down by Iran’s Supreme Court ...
Five Prisoners Hanged in Iran in Accelerating Rate of Executions
Hangings Follow Twenty Prisoners Executed Last Week Five prisoners were hanged inside Iran’s ...
Mother of Executed Iranian Scientist Describes Last Visit With Son Day Before His Death
Marzieh Amiri: “I had kept silent only for the sake of my son.” The mother of ...
Cartoon 152: Executions in Iran
Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyestani's take on the recent surge in prison executions in Iran....
Anti-Pollution Initiative Stymied by Ban on Women Riding Bicycles in Public
Women’s rights activists and environmentalists joined forces in the city of Marivan, in Iran’s Kurdistan Province, after a local ...
Names of Mass Execution Victims in Iran Still Not Released
Only 10 of the 20 Sunni Prisoners Killed Are Identified by Authorities Iran is withholding the names ...
Radical Iranian Newspaper Suspended for Lewd Sexual Slurs against Actors
The weekly Ya Lesarat, the official publication of the ultraconservative vigilante group Ansar-e Hezbollah, has been suspended by ...
Iran Executes Kurdish Prisoner despite Claim of Forced Confession
As Many As 20 Others May Have Been Executed Too Kurdish prisoner Shahram Ahmadi was hanged in the courtyard of Iran’s Rajaee ...
Lawyers Still Languishing in Jails in Iran for Defending Dissidents Under Rouhani’s Watch
Campaign Pledges Three Years Ago to Free Political Prisoners Now Ring Hollow Dozens of human rights lawyers who have been imprisoned for ...
Ninety-two Student Groups in Iran Criticize Rouhani for Unfulfilled Promises
Ninety-two university student groups have issued a joint letter to President Hassan ...
Reformist Newspaper Editor’s Prison Sentence Reduced on Appeal
The seven-year prison sentence of reformist newspaper editor Ehsan Mazandarani has been reduced to two years on appeal, his brother-in-law Sam ...
150 Boys and Girls Arrested in Crackdown on Co-ed Parties
One hundred fifty young girls and boys were arrested for attending an “inappropriate mixed-gender” birthday party near the city of Tehran, according to an announcement...
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Interferes in Case of Imprisoned Christian
Case Exposes Judiciary’s Lack of Independence Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has directly ...
Real Target of Tehran’s Demand for Apple to Open Office in Iran is US Sanctions
Tehran’s recent ultimatum to Apple, the US tech giant, to open up an office in Iran ...
Arrested Iranian-American from San Diego Held Incommunicado and without Access to Lawyer
Charges and Whereabouts of Robin (Reza) Shahini Unknown Iranian-American Robin (Reza) Shahini, the latest victim of a string of arrests and prolonged detainments of dual nationals who have travelled to Iran, ...
Cartoon 149: Worthless Versus Valuable “Likes”
At a June 23, 2016 public meeting with poets chosen and invited by his administration, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said: "I have heard that some publish their ...
Iran’s Conservatives Lash Out at New Female Fashion Trends
Iran’s anti-vice squads, also referred to as the morality police, are particularly busy in the hot summer ...
Harassment of Teachers’ Union Leader Continues with New Summons
Rassoul Bodaghi, a senior member of the Iranian Teacher’s Association who has been ...