Imprisoned Children’s Rights Activist Denied Bail
Saeed Shirzad Saeed Shirzad, a children’s rights activist sentenced to five years ...
Saeed Shirzad Saeed Shirzad, a children’s rights activist sentenced to five years ...
Imprisoned physicist Omid Kokabee was transferred to Taleghani Hospital in Tehran on November 24, 2015, suffering from severe kidney stones, ...
Hardliners in Iran’s Parliament, Judiciary, and Revolutionary Guards are intensifying a broad crackdown on supporters of human rights and free elections, in ...
The political prisoner Majid Azarpey is in extremely poor health since beginning a wet hunger strike (refusing solid foods) ...
Husband’s Refusal to Give Consent Kept Her Banned from Leaving Country The captain of the Iranian ...
A month after a warning by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Center for Investigation of Organized Crime that the use of ...
Reyhaneh Tabatabaie Facebook Posts and Reformist Affiliations Are Her “Crimes” The ...
Security forces arrested the prominent Iranian cartoonist Hadi Heidari in his office at Shahrvand Daily in Tehran today, November ...
Solmaz Ikdar The journalist Solmaz Ikdar has been sentenced to three years ...
In a fresh crackdown on Iran’s Baha’i community, one of the most persecuted religious minorities in Iran, 15 followers of the ...
Cars driven by women who do not observe the hijab (head covering for women) will be impounded and fines ...
Fourteen days after prisoner of conscience Ali Shariati embarked on a hunger strike to protest the judicial process of his case, ...
Reacting to the recent arrests of Iranian journalists by the IRGC, and extensive articles on the subject on ultra-conservative media ...
Several journalists were arrested in Iran over the past week in an intensifying campaign of repression that is based on the ...
Shahram Ahmadi Shahram Ahmadi has been sentenced to death in Iran due ...
Fear of Post-Nuclear Deal Rapprochement with West Drives Intensified Repression November 9, 2015—Several journalists were arrested in Iran ...
The political journalist Issa Saharkhiz has been arrested on charges of “intending to disrupt national security,” “propaganda ...
Iranian women remain barred from entering sports stadiums to watch games and competitions. This is cartoonist Touka Neyestani's take on ...
By Herbert L. Berk ...
Controversy over Strict Adherence to Islamic Law Dates Back to 1979 Revolution A battle over the necessity of strict adherence to Islamic ...
In this new video and Twitter campaign, Let Iranian Women Go to Stadiums, the Campaign and Human Rights Watch speak out against the Iranian government’s ban on women at sport stadiums, and ask ...
Alireza Rajaei The prominent journalist Alireza Rajaee has been released from prison upon ...