Guilt by Association: Wife of Prominent Labor Activist Charged for Alleged Facebook Post
The wife of a prominent labor activist has been charged with posting “insulting” content on Facebook even though ...
Issues
Imprisoned Journalist Who Sent Letter to Supreme Leader Saying He Was Tortured is Hospitalized
Ehsan Mazandarani, who went on hunger strike on May 17, is in intensive care following a heart attack ...
Authorities Reverse Decision to Release Detained Dual National Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Richard Ratcliffe’s hopes were dashed when he found out that his wife, a British-Iranian dual national who has been detained in Iran without legal ...
Commentary: Iran’s Foreign Minister Toes the Supreme Leader’s Line on Human Rights
ICHRI- When Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently tried to side-step questions about the country’s abysmal human rights ...
New Rules at Rajaee Shahr Prison Target Political Prisoners for Harsh Treatment
Harsher rules have been imposed upon political prisoners at Rajaee Shahr Prison, already know for its ...
New Report: Inside the Women’s Ward: Mistreatment of Women Political Prisoners at Iran’s Evin Prison
Political prisoners held in the Women’s Ward at Iran’s Evin Prison are routinely denied medical care and hospitalization, face restricted or denied visitation rights even with their young children, are deprived of regular telephone contact with their families, and are ...
Iran’s Judiciary Evades Responsibility for Lashing Sentences against Striking Miners
After a month-long silence amid widespread condemnation of the decision by Iran’s Judiciary to intervene in a local labor dispute and punish 17 protesting mine workers ...
Religious Minority in Iran Asks Khamenei for Constitutional Protection
The leadership of the Yarsan faith in northwestern Iran has written to ...
Iran’s Judiciary Sues Editor for Exposing Corruption and Poor Treatment of Inmates at Major Penitentiary
Tehran’s chief prosecutor is suing the editor-in-chief of a popular reformist newspaper for publishing a feature piece about a ...
UN Body Calls for Immediate Release of Bahareh Hedayat
Imprisonment of Prominent Women and Human Rights Defender Is Against International Law, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Rules June ...
No Time for Goodbyes: Political Prisoner Forced to Begin Harsh Prison Sentence Without Summons
Former student activist Arash Sadeghi unexpectedly began serving his 15-year prison sentence in Evin ...
Kurdish Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike to Protest Imminent Death Sentence
Mohammad Abdollahi Mohammad Abdollahi Could Be Executed “At Any Moment” Mohammad ...
Guard Assaults Ailing Political Prisoner in Hospital
Imprisoned newspaper editor Ehsan Mazandarani, who has been hospitalized in Tehran since ...
Executive Summary
This report by the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran seeks to shine a spotlight on the inmates of the Women’s Ward at Iran’s Evin Prison. It is based on testimonies and eyewitness accounts by prisoners in the ward, ...
Iranian-Canadian Academic Detained During Visit to Iran
Homa Hoodfar, an Iranian-Canadian scholar and expert on gender and development in Islam, was ...
PhD Student Imprisoned for Refusing to Work for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Denied Rights
Hamid Babaei, a PhD student incarcerated for nearly three years in Rajaee Shahr Prison following a trial ...
Christian Convert Repeatedly Imprisoned for his Faith Denied Timely Adjudication
A Christian convert’s appeal against his five-year prison sentence has not been adjudicated more than a year after his ...
Ailing Imprisoned Christian Convert Home On Brief Leave Maintains Demand for Permanent Release
Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran, a Christian convert who has been imprisoned since 2013 while suffering from several ailments, has ...
Campaign’s Letter to Rouhani: Allow Women Spectators to Attend World Volleyball Games in Tehran
Over the past few years, since Iran's national volleyball team rose to international prominence, ...
Kurdish Political Prisoner Denied Urgent Medical Care
Prisoner of conscience Zeinab Jalalian, condemned to life in prison in northwestern ...
New Video: Time for Anti-Baha’i Discrimination to End in Iran
State Officials Launch New Wave of Verbal Attacks after Former President’s Daughter Visits Baha’i Prisoner June 07, 2016—The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Impact Iran released an animated ...
Officials Seek to Confront Iran’s Increasingly Popular “White Marriages”
The increasing popularity of Iranian couples living together without getting officially married has alarmed officials of the Islamic Republic ...
New Iranian Bill Aims to Keep Women Out of Workforce
A bill that would reduce the working hours of female employees, which was passed in the last ...
Negligence by Major Tech Companies like Google and Telegram Aiding Iran’s Cyber Army
Tech Giants’ Failure to Implement Security Measures Endangers Millions of Users Large technology firms are failing to provide sophisticated and country-specific user security measures, and as a result, are helping Iran’s ...