Imprisoned journalist Saeed Razavi Faghih has been threatened with retribution for writing letters complaining about abuse inside Rajaee Shahr Prison and could be facing new trumped-up charges. “About a ...
Steps Towards Reconciliation with the West Are Good but Iran Needs National Reconciliation As Well January 16, 2016—The International Campaign for Human Rights in ...
UPDATE: This post was updated on January 19, 2016, to reflect that additional organizations have signed the letter. A total of 16 organizations have ...
The head of Telegram, the most popular social media network in Iran, has again categorically denied making any ...
No Access to Counsel or Family Visits during 7-Month “Temporary Detention” After nearly seven months of “temporary ...
The well-known reformist journalist Reyhaneh Tabatabaie surrendered herself to Evin Prison authorities on January 12, 2016, ...
A year after the arrest of more than two dozen Sunni Muslim men in southeast Iran, ...
Two-Day Ordeal Included Solitary Confinement and Incarceration with Criminals The poet Hila Sedighi, who was arrested and ...
After two months of detention, the prominent reformist journalist and political activist Issa Saharkhiz has resumed his ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s near total monopoly on the broadcast of film and television series has effectively ended ...
Hila Sedighi was released on bail on the evening of Saturday, January 9 in Tehran. The authorities did not provide any ...
Photo by Reza Baharinejad from Hila ...
State Filtering Body Refuses to Block the Service An official Iranian state censorship body has resisted calls by ...
Legal Expert Decries Refusal to Release Sosha Makani on Bail till Investigation is Completed Sosha Makani, Persepolis soccer ...
The mother of a student who has not been heard from since soon after his arrest in Tehran in 1999 ...
Christian is Arrested and Taken to Unknown Location Despite President Hassan Rouhani’s pledges during his election campaign in 2013 ...
An Appeals Court judge has admonished collaborators of a popular music site for ignoring repeated warnings that they were operating illegally and having ...
The Iranian government’s most senior female official plans to take legal action against an extremist publication for comparing her to a prostitute. The weekly Ya ...
A prolonged delay in hearing children’s rights activist Atena Daemi’s appeal against her 14-year prison sentence is causing a serious deterioration ...
The daughter of prisoner of conscience Mohammad Hossein Rafiee fears her elderly father is in danger ...
Family Hopes for Taheri’s Release at End of Prison Term in 2016 With the lifting of the ...
The well-known Iranian poet Mohamadreza Haj Rostambegloo was released on bail from Karaj’s Central Prison last week, following his third ...
Hassan Sheikh Aghaei, the editor of a Kurdish-Persian news site, was released on two billion rials (about $67,000) bail on December ...
Imprisoned children’s rights activist Omid Alishenas has been refused bail while waiting for the Appeals Court to hear his case. “Seven ...
The Rouhani administration and the hardline-dominated Judiciary in Iran are engaged in an increasingly direct confrontation over the ability of Iranian ...