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New Report: Inside the Women’s Ward: Mistreatment of Women Political Prisoners at Iran’s Evin Prison

New Report: Inside the Women’s Ward: Mistreatment of Women Political Prisoners at Iran’s Evin Prison

June 20, 2016

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

Iran’s Judiciary Evades Responsibility for Lashing Sentences against Striking Miners

June 17, 2016

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

Religious Minority in Iran Asks Khamenei for Constitutional Protection

June 17, 2016

The leadership of the Yarsan faith in northwestern Iran has written to Iran’s supreme ...

Iran’s Judiciary Sues Editor for Exposing Corruption and Poor Treatment of Inmates at Major Penitentiary

June 17, 2016

Tehran’s chief prosecutor is suing the editor-in-chief of a popular reformist newspaper for publishing a feature piece about a major prison ...

UN Body Calls for Immediate Release of Bahareh Hedayat

UN Body Calls for Immediate Release of Bahareh Hedayat

June 14, 2016

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

No Time for Goodbyes: Political Prisoner Forced to Begin Harsh Prison Sentence Without Summons

June 14, 2016

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

Kurdish Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike to Protest Imminent Death Sentence

June 14, 2016

Mohammad Abdollahi Mohammad Abdollahi Could Be Executed “At Any Moment” Mohammad ...

Guard Assaults Ailing Political Prisoner in Hospital

Guard Assaults Ailing Political Prisoner in Hospital

June 10, 2016

Imprisoned newspaper editor Ehsan Mazandarani, who has been hospitalized in Tehran since ...

Executive Summary

June 10, 2016

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

Iranian-Canadian Academic Detained During Visit to Iran

June 8, 2016

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

PhD Student Imprisoned for Refusing to Work for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Denied Rights

June 8, 2016

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

Christian Convert Repeatedly Imprisoned for his Faith Denied Timely Adjudication

June 8, 2016

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

Ailing Imprisoned Christian Convert Home On Brief Leave Maintains Demand for Permanent Release

June 8, 2016

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

Campaign’s Letter to Rouhani: Allow Women Spectators to Attend World Volleyball Games in Tehran

June 7, 2016

Over the past few years, since Iran's national volleyball team rose to international prominence, ...

Kurdish Political Prisoner Denied Urgent Medical Care

Kurdish Political Prisoner Denied Urgent Medical Care

June 7, 2016

Prisoner of conscience Zeinab Jalalian, condemned to life in prison in northwestern ...

New Video: Time for Anti-Baha’i Discrimination to End in Iran

New Video: Time for Anti-Baha’i Discrimination to End in Iran

June 7, 2016

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”

Officials Seek to Confront Iran’s Increasingly Popular “White Marriages”

June 6, 2016

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

New Iranian Bill Aims to Keep Women Out of Workforce

June 6, 2016

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

Negligence by Major Tech Companies like Google and Telegram Aiding Iran’s Cyber Army

June 3, 2016

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 ...

Hardline Council Fires New Shot against Rouhani Administration in Battle Over Social Media in Iran

Hardline Council Fires New Shot against Rouhani Administration in Battle Over Social Media in Iran

June 3, 2016

Directive Forcing Messaging Apps to Store User Data in Iran Would Give Authorities Access to Accounts The directive ...

Cartoon 146: No Friendship with Baha’is!

Cartoon 146: No Friendship with Baha’is!

June 2, 2016

Faezeh Hashemi, the outspoken daughter of prominent former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been threatened with prosecution ...

Music Distributors Summoned to Prison: Don’t Forget Us

Music Distributors Summoned to Prison: Don’t Forget Us

June 2, 2016

Mehdi Rajabian, Hossein Rajabian and Yousef Emadi, all managers of BargMusic—one of ...

Kurdish Political Prisoner Resumes Hunger Strike Despite Risk of Death

Kurdish Political Prisoner Resumes Hunger Strike Despite Risk of Death

June 2, 2016

Prominent Kurdish human rights activist Mohammad Sediq Kaboudvand has resumed his hunger ...

Women Prisoners Collectively Punished For Baha’i Leader’s Meeting with Activist during Her Furlough

Women Prisoners Collectively Punished For Baha’i Leader’s Meeting with Activist during Her Furlough

June 1, 2016

Inmates at the Women’s Ward in Evin Prison have been told that their furloughs (temporary leave) have ...

Hospitalized Christian Convert Returned to Prison Without Treatment

Hospitalized Christian Convert Returned to Prison Without Treatment

May 31, 2016

Imprisoned Christian convert Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran, who had no access to legal counsel during her trial in 2013, ...

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