Commentary: Khamenei’s New Letter to Western Youth is Case Study in Hypocrisy
Seyed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, has written a letter addressed to youths in Western countries and, as he did in an ...
Issues
Elections for Assembly of Experts Puts Spotlight on Future of Leadership in Iran
Although Iran’s Assembly of Experts has the power to select or depose the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic, it has never been ...
Mother Puts All Hope in Appeals Court to Free Son
“How can a young man who worked hard for Rouhani’s presidential campaign, ‘wage propaganda’ and ‘act against the state’?” ...
Ground Shifts as 70 MPs in Iran Introduce Bill to End Executions for Drug Crimes
More than 70 Members of the Iranian Parliament have presented a bill that, if ratified by the full legislature and approved ...
Arrested Journalists Held Incommunicado for Over a Month while Officials Make Baseless Claims
More than a month after his arrest, the prominent reformist journalist Issa Saharkhiz has not contacted his ...
Students Plead with Rouhani to Release Political Prisoners
President Hassan Rouhani and other senior government officials were met with students expressing frustration over the continuing repression ...
Ninety Journalists Call for Release of Four Arrested Colleagues
Ninety Iranian journalists have signed a statement calling for the release of four of their colleagues arrested a ...
Kurdish Filmmaker’s Appeal Request Accepted; Colleagues Voice Support
Documentary filmmaker Keyvan Karimi’s request for an appeal against a six-year prison sentence for “insulting ...
Tehran Symphony Orchestra Leaves Stage rather than Bow to Demand to Ban Female Members
The Tehran Symphony Orchestra cancelled a performance that had been planned for the closing ceremony of an international ...
Five Prison Inmates on Hunger Strike to Protest Knife Attack against Two Political Prisoners
Prison Officials Refuse to Remove Attackers from Ward Two political prisoners, Saeed Madani...
Rouhani Administration Continues Ban on Popular Musician
Hossein Zaman Singer-songwriter Hossein Zaman, who has been banned from performing ...
Imprisoned Children’s Rights Activist Denied Bail
Saeed Shirzad Saeed Shirzad, a children’s rights activist sentenced to five ...
Untreated Kidney Stones Sends Imprisoned Physicist Omid Kokabee to Hospital
Imprisoned physicist Omid Kokabee was transferred to Taleghani Hospital in Tehran on November 24, 2015, suffering from severe ...
Cartoon 130: Infiltration
Hardliners in Iran’s Parliament, Judiciary, and Revolutionary Guards are intensifying a broad crackdown on supporters of human rights and free ...
Political Prisoner’s Health Deteriorating as His Hunger Strike Enters Fourth Week
The political prisoner Majid Azarpey is in extremely poor health since beginning a wet hunger strike (refusing solid ...
Women’s Futsal Team Captain Allowed to Travel to World Championship Only after Judiciary Gives Consent
Husband’s Refusal to Give Consent Kept Her Banned from Leaving Country The captain of the ...
Popular Instant Messaging Applications Severely Interrupted in Iran
A month after a warning by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Center for Investigation of Organized Crime that the use ...
Journalist’s One-Year Prison Sentence and Two-Year Ban on Media Upheld
Reyhaneh Tabatabaie Facebook Posts and Reformist Affiliations Are Her “Crimes” ...
Cartoon 129: For Imprisoned Cartoonist Hadi Heidari
Security forces arrested the prominent Iranian cartoonist Hadi Heidari in his office at Shahrvand Daily in Tehran today, ...
Journalist Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Her Facebook Posts
Solmaz Ikdar The journalist Solmaz Ikdar has been sentenced to three ...
Fifteen Baha’is Arrested by Rouhani’s Intelligence Ministry
In a fresh crackdown on Iran’s Baha’i community, one of the most persecuted religious minorities in Iran, 15 followers of ...
Women Drivers Not Wearing Hijab Face Tough Police Action
Cars driven by women who do not observe the hijab (head covering for women) will be impounded and ...
Prisoner of Conscience on Hunger Strike Transferred to Clinic as His Condition Worsens
Fourteen days after prisoner of conscience Ali Shariati embarked on a hunger strike to protest the judicial process of his ...