Iranian Political Prisoners Turn to Life-Threatening Hunger Strikes to Protest Unjust Sentences
Teacher’s Rights Activist Hospitalized The imprisoned spokesman of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association, ...
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Sexual Molestation Case Involving 9-Year-Old Exposes Iran’s Weak Child Protection Laws
The family of a nine-year-old girl from a village in northwestern Iran has vowed to pursue legal ...
Baha’i Victim of Land Confiscation by Iranian Government Speaks Out
Photo caption: Ziaollah Motearefi’s farm was featured in the documentary film, "The Green Desert,” which was posted on YouTube on February 29, 2016. ...
Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer’s Daughter: Help My Father Before It’s Too Late
Abdolfattah Soltani’s Condition Deteriorates; Needs Urgent Hospitalization Abdolfattah Soltani, an ...
Iranian Journalists Face Growing Threats and Intimidation by Authorities
Tactics Meant to Sow Fear among Independent Journalists in Wake of Reformists’ Parliamentary Election Gains Iran’s Intelligence ...
Young Artist Who Lampooned Iranian MPs Released From Prison
Atena Faraghdani Served 18 Months for Her Facebook Cartoons Artist and civil rights activist ...
Teacher’s Union Leader Conditionally Released on Parole
Teacher’s rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi, who was imprisoned in Iran for six years for ...
Female Journalist, Sentenced to Ten Years, Beaten in Iran Prison
Mother of Afarin Chitsaz’s Describes Brutality Aimed at Forcing a “Confession” The ...
Imprisoned Teacher Begins Hunger Strike to Protest Years Behind Bars for Peaceful Union Activities
Mahmoud Beheshti Langroudi, a teacher and activist who was sentenced to five years in prison and ...
Revolutionary Guards Going after Family Members of Iranian Journalists Living Abroad
Brother of Journalist Sentenced to Five Years in Prison In a long-established practice of ...
Four Iranian Rights Activists Summoned to Appear Together at Appeals Court
Rights activists Omid Alishenas, Atena Daemi, Ali ...
Journalists in Iran Slapped with Long Prison Sentences
Three journalists and the brother of a journalist have been given prison sentences ranging from five to ten years ...
Public Outcry in Iran Over Plan for Increased Morality Police Prompts Review
Deploying 7,000 undercover morality police in Tehran contradicts the principle of the presumption of innocence, Iranian lawyer Ali Rambod told the ...
Revolutionary Guards’ Cyber Attacks Now Directed at Rouhani Cabinet Members
IRGC Actively Recruiting Technical Experts to Staff New Hacking Team April 26, 2016—Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, who have long waged ...
Prominent Human Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi Goes on Trial Behind Closed Doors
The trial of human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, postponed four times since its original date of May ...
Bus Drivers’ Union Leader Awaiting Sentencing for Peaceful Labor Activism
Ebrahim Maddadi, a labor activist and leading member of Tehran’s bus drivers’ union, is awaiting sentencing after standing trial ...
After Losing Kidney to Cancer, Imprisoned Physicist Must Be Treated for Other Illnesses
Omid Kokabee Could Lose His Life After Years of Denied Medical Care in Iran Prison Omid Kokabee, the ...
Young Female Artist’s Prison Sentence Reduced on Appeal, Could Soon Go Free
Prisoner of conscience Atena Faraghdani’s sentence has been reduced on appeal from ...
Mehdi Karroubi: Despite Five Years of House Arrest, He Continues to Speak Out against Abuse of Power in Iran
Former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who has been living under extrajudicial house arrest for over five years for contesting ...
EU Must Not Ignore Iran’s Human Rights Record, Says Former Political Prisoner
“Do not forget the spilt blood of Iranian youths or the young and old prisoners suffering in small and ...
Imprisoned Physicist Loses Kidney to Cancer, Must Be Released Permanently
Omid Kokabee’s Life Endangered by Years of Denied Medical Care in Iran Prison April 21, 2016—Omid Kokabee, the ...
Iranians May Soon Be Able to Make International Online Transactions
Denials Raise Questions Over Whether Deal Will Go Through A global payment service provider based in the U.S. ...
Imprisoned Young Physicist Stricken with Cancer after Years of Denied Medical Care
April 18, 2016—Prisoner of conscience Omid Kokabee, the young physicist who has been imprisoned in Iran for over five years ...
Hunger Striker in Critical Condition Vows to Continue Strike
Political Prisoner Protests His Imprisonment and Denial of Medical Care Prisoner of conscience Hossein ...
Business Leaders around the World Call for an End to Iran’s Closure of Baha’i Businesses
Read this article in Persian here. Letter to Khamenei Urges Respect for Economic Rights ...