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Unfair Trials

Mother Denies Espionage Charges Against Son Detained in Crackdown on Environmental NGO in Iran

Mother Denies Espionage Charges Against Son Detained in Crackdown on Environmental NGO in Iran

February 12, 2018

Sam Rajabi was detained on January 25, 2018. The mother of Sam Rajabi, who was arrested in a ...

Clear Signs of State Cover-Up in Prison Death of Iranian-Canadian Academic in Iran

Clear Signs of State Cover-Up in Prison Death of Iranian-Canadian Academic in Iran

February 12, 2018

Distraught Family Under Enormous Pressure to Bury Body Quickly and Not Speak Publicly About the Death February 12, 2018—The family of the Iranian-Canadian academic, Kavous Seyed-Emami, whose death in custody ...

Iranian-Canadian Academic Dies in Custody While Under Interrogations

Iranian-Canadian Academic Dies in Custody While Under Interrogations

February 10, 2018

A third detainee, 63-year old Iranian-Canadian professor Kavous Seyed-Emami, has died in custody in Iran, barely 17 days after his arrest and while under interrogations ...

Two Female Political Prisoners To Begin Refusing Food and Water Over Sudden Transfer to New Prison

Two Female Political Prisoners To Begin Refusing Food and Water Over Sudden Transfer to New Prison

February 9, 2018

Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee(left) and Atena Daemi Imprisoned civil rights activists Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and Atena Daemi have pledged to escalate their week-long hunger strike into a dry ...

Rights Group: Security Agents Killed At Least 20 in Sistan and Baluchistan Province in 2017

Rights Group: Security Agents Killed At Least 20 in Sistan and Baluchistan Province in 2017

February 9, 2018

At least 20 ethnic Baluchis were killed and 19 wounded after being shot by law enforcement agents who were allegedly pursuing suspected traffickers in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province in 2017, ...

Swedish Resident Facing Death in Iran Details How He Was Forced to Make False Statements   

Swedish Resident Facing Death in Iran Details How He Was Forced to Make False Statements   

February 9, 2018

The wife of a Swedish resident imprisoned in Tehran has revealed the way her husband, Ahmadreza Djalali, was coerced into making potentially incriminating statements before he was ...

Revised Law Could Save Thousands on Death Row in Iran

Revised Law Could Save Thousands on Death Row in Iran

February 9, 2018

 Up to 5,000 people facing death in Iran could be saved as a result of a recently revised law--but there's a catch. Here's the story of an emerging Iranian policy regarding capital punishment.  ...

Authorities Ignore Potential Cancer Diagnosis For US Resident Nizar Zakka, Deny Him Medical Care

Authorities Ignore Potential Cancer Diagnosis For US Resident Nizar Zakka, Deny Him Medical Care

February 7, 2018

"Evin Prison officials are using medicine as a weapon" US permanent resident Nizar Zakka is being denied medical attention in Evin Prison despite ...

“This is Slavery” 30 Sugar Plant Workers Arrested in Iran For Demanding Unpaid Wages

“This is Slavery” 30 Sugar Plant Workers Arrested in Iran For Demanding Unpaid Wages

February 7, 2018

Police arrested more than 30 protesters on the fourth day of a strike by hundreds of workers on February 4, 2018, at a major sugar plant near the city ...

Imprisoned Iranian-American Art Dealer Accuses IRGC of Judicial Interference

Imprisoned Iranian-American Art Dealer Accuses IRGC of Judicial Interference

February 6, 2018

Karan Vafadari: “I don’t think we will be justly ...

Woman Arrested For Removing Hijab in Tehran Refuses to Repent Despite Facing 10 Years in Prison

Woman Arrested For Removing Hijab in Tehran Refuses to Repent Despite Facing 10 Years in Prison

February 6, 2018

  Narges Hosseini, who was arrested for protesting Iran’s compulsory hijab, refused to appear in court to face charges punishable by up to 10 years, including “encouraging immorality or prostitution.” “Ms. Hosseini ...

Iranian Hardline Cleric Says Protesters Should be Sentenced to Death

Iranian Hardline Cleric Says Protesters Should be Sentenced to Death

February 5, 2018

A Friday prayer leader in Tehran has called for the death penalty to be issued to citizens who participated in the weeklong protests that erupted across Iran in December 2017. ...

Shirin Ebadi: Bill That Restricts Protests to Designated Areas in Iran Adds “More Limits” to Freedom of Speech

Shirin Ebadi: Bill That Restricts Protests to Designated Areas in Iran Adds “More Limits” to Freedom of Speech

February 5, 2018

A proposed bill aimed at designating public spaces in Iran for protests will lead to “more limits” on the people’s right to voice their demands, Nobel Peace Prize laureate ...

Hardline Judge Keeps Iranian-American and Wife in Jail by Imposing $27 Million Bail

Hardline Judge Keeps Iranian-American and Wife in Jail by Imposing $27 Million Bail

February 3, 2018

Family Meets Bail for Wife, but Judge Still Refuses to Release Her The judge presiding over the case of imprisoned Iranian-American gallery owners Karan Vafadari and his wife Afarin ...

Parliamentary Delegation Visiting Evin Prison Told 4,534 Were Arrested in Iranian Protests

Parliamentary Delegation Visiting Evin Prison Told 4,534 Were Arrested in Iranian Protests

February 1, 2018

More than a month after thousands of people were arrested in Iran after weeklong protests erupted across the country beginning in December 2017, 11 Members of Parliament (MPs) were allowed to ...

Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Urges Supreme Leader to “Create the Grounds For Reform”

Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Urges Supreme Leader to “Create the Grounds For Reform”

January 31, 2018

In a letter written under house arrest, opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has warned Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to heed the signs of ...

Iranian-American Zoroastrian Denounces 27-Year “Unjust” Prison Sentence in Letter From Prison

Iranian-American Zoroastrian Denounces 27-Year “Unjust” Prison Sentence in Letter From Prison

January 30, 2018

Update: The couple's sentence was later reduced to 15 years for Karan Vafadari and 10 years for Afarin Nayssari. In a letter from Evin Prison obtained by the Center ...

Iranian Pastor’s Wife Sentenced to Five Years in Prison For “Acting Against National Security”

Iranian Pastor’s Wife Sentenced to Five Years in Prison For “Acting Against National Security”

January 29, 2018

Judge Ahmadzadeh Has Sentenced 16 Christians to Prison In Less Than A Year Shamiram Isavi, the wife of Victor Bet Tamraz, who formerly led Iran’s Assyrian Pentecostal Church, has been sentenced ...

Iranian Sunni Cleric Faces Travel Restrictions: “It All Comes Down to Intolerance”

Iranian Sunni Cleric Faces Travel Restrictions: “It All Comes Down to Intolerance”

January 29, 2018

Iranian Officials have imposed travel restrictions on one of the ...

Activists Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee Beaten and Transferred to Different Prison

Activists Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee Beaten and Transferred to Different Prison

January 26, 2018

Political prisoners Atena Daemi and Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee were beaten by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Tehran’s Evin Prison and transferred ...

40 Iranian MPs Call for Immediate Release of Detained University Students

40 Iranian MPs Call for Immediate Release of Detained University Students

January 26, 2018

Forty Iranian lawmakers have written to President Hassan Rouhani and Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani urging them to immediately release student detainees who were arrested during the weeklong protests that hit several ...

More than 150 Detained Iranian Protesters Have Requested “Pills,” Reports Committee

More than 150 Detained Iranian Protesters Have Requested “Pills,” Reports Committee

January 26, 2018

Credible Sources Report That Detainees Told to Request Pills to Speed Up Release More than 150 people detained in the protests that broke out in ...

Detainees Arrested in Iranian Protests Facing Charges That Carry Death Penalty

Detainees Arrested in Iranian Protests Facing Charges That Carry Death Penalty

January 26, 2018

Some detainees arrested in the protests that broke out in Iran’s Hamadan and Khuzestan provinces in December 2017 are facing charges that are punishable by death, the Center ...

Unable to Locate Activists, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Illegally Detains Their Family Members

Unable to Locate Activists, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Illegally Detains Their Family Members

January 26, 2018

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry has illegally detained or summoned close relatives of at least three activists from northwestern Iran since anti-government protests erupted in the region in late ...

Latest Victim of Repressed Iranian Protests Identified as 24-Year-Old Man From Karaj

Latest Victim of Repressed Iranian Protests Identified as 24-Year-Old Man From Karaj

January 25, 2018

“They Buried Him Like He Was a Criminal” Hassan Shahin Tarkashvand, a 24-year-old man from the city of Karaj, has been identified as another victim of the state-repressed protests in Iran ...

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