Six months have passed and the Iranian government has still not resolved the dispute over the suspension of a Yazd City Council member, Sepanta Niknam, ...
On March 21, 2017, Kamran Ghaderi, an Iranian-born resident of Sweden, began walking from Stockholm toward Iran carrying the country’s pre-revolution national flag. In his ...
Authorities Ignore Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi’s Life-Endangering Hunger Strike Imprisoned civil rights activist Arash Sadeghi has urged “all contentious people” to call for the release of his ailing ...
Ahvaz Friday Prayer Leader Calls For Apology From State TV Over Discriminatory Children’s Show At least 200 people were arrested after a week of demonstrations in Iran’s mainly Arab-populated Khuzestan Province. On April ...
The family of imprisoned Baluchi civil rights activist Emadeddin Mollazehi has not heard from him since he was moved on March 14, 2018, from Saravan Prison in Sistan and Baluchistan Province in southeastern ...
Nikan Khosravi, a member of the Iranian metal band “Confess,” left Iran for Turkey to avoid being imprisoned for six years for producing metal music, he told the Center for Human Rights ...
Hamid Baghaei, who served as Iran’s vice president under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is in “serious condition” from refusing food for two weeks in Tehran’s Evin Prison, his lawyer ...
An Appeals Court has upheld the eight-year prison sentence issued against Iranian Kurdish civil rights activist Afshin Hossein Panahi for the charge of “propaganda against the state” ...
At Least Two Activists Facing “National Security” Charges Iran’s cyber police, known as FATA, and the Intelligence Ministry have summoned rights activists in mainly Kurdish-populated provinces of the country and accused them of ...
Dozens of prisoners in Iran held on politically motivated charges are being denied medical treatment and leave despite visible symptoms of their deteriorating health, the Center ...
University student will spend a year behind bars for “encouraging corruption” Maryam Shariatmadari, one of the “Girls of Revolution Street” protesting against mandatory hijab for women in Iran, was sentenced to ...
A lawyer representing the family of an Iranian Canadian academic who recently died in an Iranian prison has joined the growing list of attorneys in Iran ...
A former public defender that worked in Iran on cases involving human rights violations has spoken out against the Iranian supreme leader’s claim that citizens are free ...
At Least 13 Environmentalists Have Been Detained in Iran Since January 2018 Seven environmentalists who were arrested in Tehran nearly two months ago remain in detention with no or extremely limited access to legal ...
Death of Sufi in Custody Goes Unpunished Updated on April 5, 2018: The Appeals Court in Tehran confirmed the charges against Mohammad Salas and issued three death sentences to him. Judge Mohammad Shahriari, the head of ...
A former campaign manager for President Hassan Rouhani is among the five activists who have been arrested by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the city of Estahban, Fars Province, since ...
Vahid Tizfahm and his wife, Furuzandeh Nikumanesh, reunited after his 10-year imprisonment. Press Release by Baha'i International Community 20 March 2018 Sixth member of the Yaran ...
Political prisoners Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi were illegally ...
Agents Threaten to Arrest Wife For Speaking Out About Peyman Roshanzamir’s Case A blogger who never served a previous prison sentence on the condition that he would not engage in political activities was taken ...
Death Certificate Makes No Mention of Officials' Claim of "Stroke" The death in custody of a nursing student arrested for allegedly filming anti-state protests in the Iranian Province of Ilam marks the fifth known ...
Three human rights lawyers in Iran have strongly criticized the judiciary’s decision to force defendants held on politically motivated charges to pick their lawyer from an approved list ...
Women celebrate their release from Gharchak Prison on March 12. The women who were detained at a women’s rights demonstration in front of the Iranian Labor Ministry in Tehran on March 8, 2018, have all been released but five ...
The family of a man who died in police custody in Iran intends to sue judicial authorities for burying him without their permission the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Their attorney, ...
JOINT PUBLIC STATEMENT 13 March 2018 The Iranian authorities should end their cruel campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of detainees who have died in detention under suspicious circumstances, Amnesty International, the ...
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has described recent demonstrations in Iran against the country’s compulsory hijab rule as “small and insignificant,” which raises the question of why people are ...