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Attorney Blocked From Taking on Human Rights Cases in Iran Calls For Revision of “Flawed” Law

Attorney Blocked From Taking on Human Rights Cases in Iran Calls For Revision of “Flawed” Law

March 27, 2018

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 ...

Supreme Leader’s Comments on “Freedom” in Iran Ring Hollow For Victims of Rights Abuses

Supreme Leader’s Comments on “Freedom” in Iran Ring Hollow For Victims of Rights Abuses

March 27, 2018

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 ...

Iranian Environmentalists Remain Detained Months After Arrests While Families Seek Answers

Iranian Environmentalists Remain Detained Months After Arrests While Families Seek Answers

March 26, 2018

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 ...

Sufi Bus Driver Sentenced to Death in Iran For Killing Policemen

Sufi Bus Driver Sentenced to Death in Iran For Killing Policemen

March 20, 2018

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 ...

Rouhani Campaigner Among Activists Arrested in Southern Iran For Alleged Opposition to Compulsory Hijab

Rouhani Campaigner Among Activists Arrested in Southern Iran For Alleged Opposition to Compulsory Hijab

March 20, 2018

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 late ...

Sixth Baha’i Faith Leader Completes 10-Year Prison Sentence in Iran

Sixth Baha’i Faith Leader Completes 10-Year Prison Sentence in Iran

March 20, 2018

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 completes ...

Political Prisoners Denied Medical Treatment: “Sometimes I Think They Want to Kill My Girl”

Political Prisoners Denied Medical Treatment: “Sometimes I Think They Want to Kill My Girl”

March 19, 2018

Political prisoners Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi were illegally ...

Blogger Arrested Amid Iran’s December 2017 Protests Vows to Hunger Strike Until Freedom or Death

Blogger Arrested Amid Iran’s December 2017 Protests Vows to Hunger Strike Until Freedom or Death

March 16, 2018

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 of Man Accused of Filming Protests in Iran Marks Fifth Detainee Death in Two Months

Death of Man Accused of Filming Protests in Iran Marks Fifth Detainee Death in Two Months

March 15, 2018

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 ...

Iranian Lawyers: Judiciary’s Mandatory List of Approved Counsel Sets “Dangerous Precedent”

Iranian Lawyers: Judiciary’s Mandatory List of Approved Counsel Sets “Dangerous Precedent”

March 14, 2018

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 ...

Men Detained at Women’s Rights Rally in Iran Remain Behind Bars After Female Detainees Released

Men Detained at Women’s Rights Rally in Iran Remain Behind Bars After Female Detainees Released

March 14, 2018

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 ...

Family of Man Who Died in Detention to Sue Judicial Authorities For Burying Him Without Permission

Family of Man Who Died in Detention to Sue Judicial Authorities For Burying Him Without Permission

March 13, 2018

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 ...

Iran: End Persecution of Families Seeking Truth and Justice For Detainees Who Died in Detention

Iran: End Persecution of Families Seeking Truth and Justice For Detainees Who Died in Detention

March 13, 2018

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, ...

Woman Who Removed Headscarf in Public Sentenced to Prison as Supreme Leader Tries to Diminish Hijab Protests

Woman Who Removed Headscarf in Public Sentenced to Prison as Supreme Leader Tries to Diminish Hijab Protests

March 10, 2018

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 ...

Father and Son Political Prisoners Kept on Death Row in Iran For Eight Years Despite Deteriorating Health

Father and Son Political Prisoners Kept on Death Row in Iran For Eight Years Despite Deteriorating Health

March 10, 2018

Two prisoners of conscience who have been behind bars for nearly a decade in Tehran’s Evin Prison have been denied medical leave despite suffering from ...

Seyed-Emami Family: Iran is “Trying to Prevent Us From Rebuilding Our Lives”

Seyed-Emami Family: Iran is “Trying to Prevent Us From Rebuilding Our Lives”

March 8, 2018

Upon arriving in Vancouver, Canada, on March 8, 2018, the sons of Kavous Seyed-Emami--the Iranian-Canadian academic who died in Tehran's Evin Prison last month--issued a statement about the "chaotic ordeal" ...

Ongoing Harassment: Wife of Iranian-Canadian Who Died in Iran’s Evin Prison “Banned” From Leaving Country

Ongoing Harassment: Wife of Iranian-Canadian Who Died in Iran’s Evin Prison “Banned” From Leaving Country

March 8, 2018

Lives of Seyed-Emami Family Thrown Into “Chaos and Terror” March 8, 2018—The Iranian government should immediately allow the wife of Iranian-Canadian academic and environmentalist Kavous Seyed-Emami to leave Iran as she wishes and ...

Shiite Mystic Sentenced to Another Five Years Imprisonment in Iran

Shiite Mystic Sentenced to Another Five Years Imprisonment in Iran

March 8, 2018

Death Sentence Struck Down Twice by Supreme Court Mohammad Ali Taheri, the founder of a mystical Shiite spiritual group in Iran, has been sentenced to five years in prison ...

Attorney: Iran’s Judiciary is Denying Alireza Golipour Urgent Medical Care

Attorney: Iran’s Judiciary is Denying Alireza Golipour Urgent Medical Care

March 6, 2018

Alireza Golipour requires a heart procedure at a hospital but judicial authorities have refused to grant him furlough for medical leave from Evin Prison ...

Four Deaths in State Custody in Iran in Two Months Heighten Grave Concerns for Detainees

Four Deaths in State Custody in Iran in Two Months Heighten Grave Concerns for Detainees

March 6, 2018

Gonabadi Dervish Detainee Died From “Blows to the Head,” Says Daughter March 6, 2018—The recent death of a devotee of Iran’s largest Sufi order in Tehran marks the fourth known death of a detainee ...

Tehran Police Chief Says Man Accused of Killing Policemen Will Be “Punished by Hanging”

Tehran Police Chief Says Man Accused of Killing Policemen Will Be “Punished by Hanging”

March 5, 2018

The alleged driver of a bus that was driven into three policemen and two members of the Basij volunteer militia, killing them all during recent clashes...

Environmentalists Detained in Crackdown Denied Legal Counsel Amid Claims Some Were “Jewish Spies”

Environmentalists Detained in Crackdown Denied Legal Counsel Amid Claims Some Were “Jewish Spies”

March 5, 2018

“No one knows if they are well or where they are being held.” Several environmentalists who were arrested by Iran’s Islamic ...

41 Tehran University Students Facing Prosecution For Participating in December 2017 Protests

41 Tehran University Students Facing Prosecution For Participating in December 2017 Protests

March 5, 2018

The Iranian Judiciary has opened cases against 41 students of Tehran University who allegedly participated in protests in the capital city in January ...

Political Prisoners in Rajaee Shahr Subjected to Inhumane Living Conditions as Punishment For Hunger Strike

Political Prisoners in Rajaee Shahr Subjected to Inhumane Living Conditions as Punishment For Hunger Strike

March 5, 2018

Inmates in the ward for political prisoners in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr Prison continue to be punished seven months after many of them went on hunger strike to protest their forced move to a high-security ward. Prison officials have denied them adequate heating during the cold winter months and prevented ...

Journalist Confronts FIFA President Over Iran’s Ban on Women in Stadiums: “It’s Our Right”

Journalist Confronts FIFA President Over Iran’s Ban on Women in Stadiums: “It’s Our Right”

March 2, 2018

FIFA President Gianni Infantino (left) with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in ...

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