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Unfair Trials

“Help Me Gain the Freedom I am Legally Entitled To,” Pleads Hunger-Striking Political Prisoner

“Help Me Gain the Freedom I am Legally Entitled To,” Pleads Hunger-Striking Political Prisoner

October 20, 2017

Mohammad Nazari has been imprisoned in Iran since 1994 for his membership in a separatist group. The life of one of Iran’s longest serving political prisoners, ...

Iran’s Expediency Council to Decide Whether Religious Minorities Can Run in Elections

Iran’s Expediency Council to Decide Whether Religious Minorities Can Run in Elections

October 19, 2017

Yazd city councilman Sepanta Niknam holds up a book called Ghathas, the 17 Avestan ...

Photo of Smiling Political Prisoners in Iran’s Evin Prison Lands One in Prison Known For Harsh Conditions

Photo of Smiling Political Prisoners in Iran’s Evin Prison Lands One in Prison Known For Harsh Conditions

October 19, 2017

Arash Sadeghi (right) and Soheil Arabi in the courtyard of Evin Prison. Lawyer: Arash Sadeghi’s transfer was illegal. ...

Mousavi’s Daughters: Officials “Hoping and Planning” for Death of Opposition Leaders Under House Arrest

Mousavi’s Daughters: Officials “Hoping and Planning” for Death of Opposition Leaders Under House Arrest

October 19, 2017

Former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavian addresses a cheering crowd during the protests following Iran's disputed 2009 presidential election. In an open ...

Husband: Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Jobs and Britishness “Exaggerated” to Use Her as “Bargaining Chip”

Husband: Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Jobs and Britishness “Exaggerated” to Use Her as “Bargaining Chip”

October 18, 2017

Iranian judicial officials are misrepresenting Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s past jobs and her British citizenship to persuade the UK government to negotiate with the Iranian government for her release, her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, told the ...

Iran’s Intelligence Minister Forcefully Rejects Espionage Charges Against Nuclear Team Aide

Iran’s Intelligence Minister Forcefully Rejects Espionage Charges Against Nuclear Team Aide

October 18, 2017

A few days after an Iranian Appeals Court upheld a five-year prison sentence against a member of Iran’s nuclear deal-negotiating team, Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi insisted that the defendant, Abdolrasoul Dorri Esfahani, was ...

Reformist Journalist Sasan Aghaei in Prolonged Solitary Confinement Despite Calls for His Release by MPs

Reformist Journalist Sasan Aghaei in Prolonged Solitary Confinement Despite Calls for His Release by MPs

October 17, 2017

The Iranian judiciary is refusing to release reformist journalist Sasan Aghaei, who has been detained for more than two months in solitary confinement despite calls ...

Narges Mohammadi Calls on MPs to End the “Illegal” Torture of Solitary Confinement in Iran’s Prisons

Narges Mohammadi Calls on MPs to End the “Illegal” Torture of Solitary Confinement in Iran’s Prisons

October 14, 2017

Imprisoned prominent human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has called on members of Iran’s Parliament to investigate and end the “illegal” practice of solitary confinement of prisoners. “As a defender of human rights who has been tortured by this practice, I consider it my duty to take every opportunity to express ...

Seven Reformists MPs Plan to Sue Iran’s State Broadcasting Agency IRIB for Defamation

Seven Reformists MPs Plan to Sue Iran’s State Broadcasting Agency IRIB for Defamation

October 14, 2017

Seven reformist members of Iran’s Parliament who were recently sentenced to prison for their political views will sue the state TV and radio broadcasting agency for alleging the MPs engaged in ...

Family of Late Iranian President Rafsanjani Banned From Traveling Abroad

Family of Late Iranian President Rafsanjani Banned From Traveling Abroad

October 14, 2017

Four family members of the late Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani have been banned from traveling abroad by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), while one ...

“Suspended” Zoroastrian Member of Yazd City Council Facing Uncertain Future

“Suspended” Zoroastrian Member of Yazd City Council Facing Uncertain Future

October 14, 2017

The head councilman of the city of Yazd, in southeastern Iran, has refused to carry out a court order suspending the membership of a fellow councilman who is a member of the minority ...

Rouhani’s Criticism of Judiciary for Tightening Ban on Reformist Ex-President Spurs Debate

Rouhani’s Criticism of Judiciary for Tightening Ban on Reformist Ex-President Spurs Debate

October 14, 2017

President Hassan Rouhani’s criticism of the judiciary for arbitrarily punishing critics of the state, including ally and reformist former President Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005), has been met with a flurry of responses from adversaries ...

Leftist Poet Missing in Tabriz Two Days After Intelligence Ministry Raided His Home

Leftist Poet Missing in Tabriz Two Days After Intelligence Ministry Raided His Home

October 11, 2017

Children’s rights advocate and leftist poet Omid Aghdami has been missing since October 5, 2017, two days after he tweeted that Intelligence Ministry agents had searched his home in ...

Imprisoned Editor Ehsan Mazandarani Told to File for Temporary Release With One Month Left on Sentence

Imprisoned Editor Ehsan Mazandarani Told to File for Temporary Release With One Month Left on Sentence

October 11, 2017

A reformist journalist imprisoned in Iran who is due to be freed in less than a month has gone on a hunger strike to protest his continued incarceration. “Ehsan Mazandarani...

Iranian Baha’i Singer Facing Prison Time After European Concert Tour

Iranian Baha’i Singer Facing Prison Time After European Concert Tour

October 9, 2017

Behnam Rohani-Fard Interrogated “20 Times” in Solitary Confinement After being repeatedly interrogated while spending a month in solitary confinement, Iranian singer Behnam Rohani-Fard was released on 100 million tomans bail (approximately ...

Imprisoned Iranian-British Citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Threatened With 16 More Years Behind Bars

Imprisoned Iranian-British Citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Threatened With 16 More Years Behind Bars

October 9, 2017

Revolutionary Guards Bring New Charges Against Young Mother Who Was Eligible for Release in November 2017 October 9, 2017—Iranian-British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, imprisoned in Iran since April 2016 on trumped up and unspecified national security charges, is now facing up to 16 more years in prison based on ...

Imprisoned Teachers’ Rights Advocate Esmail Abdi Denied Sentence Review

Imprisoned Teachers’ Rights Advocate Esmail Abdi Denied Sentence Review

October 9, 2017

Esmail Abdi is serving a six-year prison sentence for peacefully advocating for teachers' rights in Iran. Iran’s judiciary has denied a request for a review of the heavy prison sentence issued ...

Senior Reformist Politicians Sentenced to Prison, Banned From Political Activities

Senior Reformist Politicians Sentenced to Prison, Banned From Political Activities

October 6, 2017

Seven prominent Iranian reformist politicians who wrote in an open letter that the judiciary has been given an “open hand” to prosecute legal political activities with “security crimes” have been handed one-year prison ...

Rights Activist Barred from University Under Ahmadinejad Faces Same Roadblocks Under Rouhani

Rights Activist Barred from University Under Ahmadinejad Faces Same Roadblocks Under Rouhani

October 5, 2017

Mahdieh Golru: “I have lost hope along with the years of my youth.” Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has blocked formerly imprisoned civil rights activist Mahdieh Golru from attending ...

Exiled Members of Sufi Gonabadi Dervish Order Told to “Repent” or Serve Life in Prison

Exiled Members of Sufi Gonabadi Dervish Order Told to “Repent” or Serve Life in Prison

October 5, 2017

The sentences of a lifetime in exile issued against Mohammad Ali Shamshirzan and Hamid Arayesh of the Sufi order in Iran known as Gonabadi Dervishes ...

Iranian Singer Offered Bribes in Exchange for Cooperating with Rouhani Government

Iranian Singer Offered Bribes in Exchange for Cooperating with Rouhani Government

October 4, 2017

Arya Aramnejad Says Repression Has Continued Under New President Iranian pop singer Arya Aramnejad has been indefinitely banned from engaging in any musical activity by Iran’s ...

Suffering From Severe Dental Problems, US Resident On “Enforced Hunger Strike” in Evin Prison

Suffering From Severe Dental Problems, US Resident On “Enforced Hunger Strike” in Evin Prison

October 4, 2017

Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese-born US permanent resident imprisoned in Iran since September 2015, has been on hunger strike since September 29, 2017, due to severe and untreated dental problems, the ...

Attorney Calls Out Local Governor For “Empty” Promises to Iran’s “Kulbar” Border Couriers

Attorney Calls Out Local Governor For “Empty” Promises to Iran’s “Kulbar” Border Couriers

October 3, 2017

An attorney representing Iranian border couriers, “kulbar” in Farsi, has criticized a local governor in northwestern Iran for making “unreasonable” and “empty” promises of financial assistance to the impoverished, unlicensed tradesmen. ...

Gorgan Appeals Court Issues Prison Sentences, Fines for Facebook Posts

Gorgan Appeals Court Issues Prison Sentences, Fines for Facebook Posts

October 3, 2017

Three Iranians were issued jail terms and a fine for expressing their views on social media. Two residents of the Iranian city of Gorgan have been sentenced to prison and another ...

Outspoken Political Prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared Denied Medical Care and Furlough

Outspoken Political Prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared Denied Medical Care and Furlough

September 29, 2017

Political prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared is being denied specialized medical care despite her worsening health, according to her husband, Hassan Jafari. “Thyroid disease is causing her a lot of suffering,” he told CHRI in an interview on September 25, 2017. “We also scheduled a ...

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