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Unfair Trials

Journalist Loses Eye and Part of His Face to Cancer Untreated While in Prison

Journalist Loses Eye and Part of His Face to Cancer Untreated While in Prison

September 4, 2017

Journalist Alireza Rajaee loses an eye due to denied medical treatment for cancer during imprisonment. Iran’s Systematic ...

Imprisoned Labor Activist on Hunger Strike Needs Hospital Treatment, Wife Says

Imprisoned Labor Activist on Hunger Strike Needs Hospital Treatment, Wife Says

September 1, 2017

Reza Shahabi and his wife in their home grocery store. Three weeks on hunger strike in Rajaee Shahr ...

Critically Ill Political Prisoner Refused Medical Leave with One Month Left to Serve on Sentence

Critically Ill Political Prisoner Refused Medical Leave with One Month Left to Serve on Sentence

September 1, 2017

The lawyer for ailing political prisoner Ehsan Mazandarani has requested his client spend the month remaining for the completion of his sentence on medical leave but so ...

Pro-Rouhani and Reformist Social Media Admins Sentenced to Prison in Iran

Pro-Rouhani and Reformist Social Media Admins Sentenced to Prison in Iran

August 31, 2017

Six administrators of Iranian reformist political channels on the Telegram messaging network have been sentenced to terms ranging from two to five years in prison. According to a verdict issued ...

Cartoon 173: Hunger Strike in Iran

Cartoon 173: Hunger Strike in Iran

August 31, 2017

Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyestani depicts hunger strikes undertaken by political prisoners in Iran in a desperate attempt to make their demands heard....

Security Forces Exit Mehdi Karroubi’s Home, As Pledged By Government

Security Forces Exit Mehdi Karroubi’s Home, As Pledged By Government

August 31, 2017

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry agents retreated from inside opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi’s home in Tehran on August 29, a day before he was discharged from hospital, his son told the Center for ...

Condition of Hunger Strikers in Iranian Prison Deteriorates while Judiciary Does Nothing

Condition of Hunger Strikers in Iranian Prison Deteriorates while Judiciary Does Nothing

August 30, 2017

Families Dismayed Over Lack of Critically Needed Medical Treatment at Rajaee Shar Prison August 30, 2017—The medical condition of more than a dozen political prisoners at Iran’s Rajaee Shar Prison, who have ...

Families Dismayed Over Lack of Attention to Hunger Strikers in Iranian Prisons

Families Dismayed Over Lack of Attention to Hunger Strikers in Iranian Prisons

August 29, 2017

Political prisoners Majid Asadi (right) and Jafar Eghdami. The parents of two political prisoners on hunger strike have expressed concern ...

Namazis Lose Appeal Against 10-Year Prison Sentence

Namazis Lose Appeal Against 10-Year Prison Sentence

August 29, 2017

Iranian-American Businessman and His 81-Year-Old Father Remain Held on Unspecified Charges after Sham Prosecution That Lacked Due Process Iranian-American businessman Siamak Namazi and his 81-year-old father ...

In Letter to Judge, Iranian-American Demands Freedom for Himself and Wife

In Letter to Judge, Iranian-American Demands Freedom for Himself and Wife

August 29, 2017

Art Gallery Owners Karan Vafadari and Afarin Neyssari Held on Baseless Charges More Than One Year Without Trial Detained Iranian-American art dealer Karan Vafadari has written a letter ...

Iran Upholds 10-Year Prison Sentences Against US Resident and Two Iranian-Americans

Iran Upholds 10-Year Prison Sentences Against US Resident and Two Iranian-Americans

August 29, 2017

Iranian-American Businessman and His 81-Year-Old Father Remain Held on Unspecified Charges after Sham Prosecution That Lacked Due Process Iran’s Appeals Court has upheld a 10-year prison sentence against US resident ...

Soheil Arabi Resumes Hunger Strike to Protest Harassment of His Family

Soheil Arabi Resumes Hunger Strike to Protest Harassment of His Family

August 28, 2017

Prisoner of conscience Soheil Arabi has restarted his hunger in Tehran’s Evin Prison to protest the persecution of his family by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).  ...

Taheri’s Death Sentence Will Not Stand, Says Hopeful Lawyer

Taheri’s Death Sentence Will Not Stand, Says Hopeful Lawyer

August 28, 2017

The lawyer for imprisoned Iranian spiritual leader Mohammad Ali Taheri  is optimistic that the latest death sentence against his client will again be turned down upon appeal. The ...

Reformist MP Calls for Judicial Investigation Into Imprisoned Journalist’s Worsening Health

Reformist MP Calls for Judicial Investigation Into Imprisoned Journalist’s Worsening Health

August 27, 2017

A member of the Iranian Parliament has called on the judiciary to investigate reports about imprisoned reformist journalist Ehsan Mazandarani’s deteriorating health after his wife publicly stated that he ...

Judiciary Contradicts Rouhani Officials’ Promise to Detained Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi

Judiciary Contradicts Rouhani Officials’ Promise to Detained Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi

August 22, 2017

The spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, has publicly rejected a report that security agents will leave detained opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi’s home in northern Tehran as “total lies.” “Mr. ...

Christian Convert Released From Prison in Iran Slapped With Travel Ban

Christian Convert Released From Prison in Iran Slapped With Travel Ban

August 22, 2017

Zargaran Reports Being Given “Unnecessary” Anti-Psychotic Medication Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran, who was released from Evin Prison on August 1, 2017 after serving more than four years for allegedly engaging in Christian missionary activities, has been ...

Appeals Court Upholds 10-Year Sentence Against Princeton Student Xiyue Wang

Appeals Court Upholds 10-Year Sentence Against Princeton Student Xiyue Wang

August 21, 2017

An Iranian Appeals Court has upheld the 10-year prison sentence against American graduate student Xiyue Wang, held since the summer of 2016 on unspecified espionage charges shrouded in secrecy by ...

Labor Activist Forced to Stay Behind Bars Until December 2018 Despite Completing Sentence

Labor Activist Forced to Stay Behind Bars Until December 2018 Despite Completing Sentence

August 18, 2017

Update: With assurances from a senior official, labor activist Reza Shahabi ended his hunger strike in Rajaee Shahr Prison on September 27, 2017, after nearly two months of refusing food. “Reza announced the end of his hunger strike ...

Imprisoned Activist Atena Daemi Slapped With New Charge For Demanding Medical Care

Imprisoned Activist Atena Daemi Slapped With New Charge For Demanding Medical Care

August 17, 2017

Activist Denied Care Despite Medical Examiner’s Recommendation Already serving a seven-year prison sentence, imprisoned children’s rights activist Atena Daemi has been issued a new charge ...

Music Producer Quarantined and Denied Family Contact for Arguing With Evin Prison Guard

Music Producer Quarantined and Denied Family Contact for Arguing With Evin Prison Guard

August 17, 2017

Yousef Emadi Facing New Charge Imprisoned music producer Yousef Emadi was punished for three weeks by being moved to a quarantine ward and being denied family contact for arguing with a guard ...

Six Inmates at Rajaee Shahr Prison Punished With Solitary Confinement For Going on Hunger Strike

Six Inmates at Rajaee Shahr Prison Punished With Solitary Confinement For Going on Hunger Strike

August 16, 2017

Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj. Prisoners Protest Transfer to High-Security Ward Without Medicine or Clothes More than 50 political ...

Detained Political Leader Mehdi Karroubi on Life-Threatening Hunger Strike

Detained Political Leader Mehdi Karroubi on Life-Threatening Hunger Strike

August 16, 2017

August 16, 2017—The Iranian judiciary must immediately release ailing political leaders Mehdi Karroubi, who is currently on hunger strike, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran ...

Rouhani Cabinet Pick Linked to Mass Surveillance of 2009 Protesters

Rouhani Cabinet Pick Linked to Mass Surveillance of 2009 Protesters

August 16, 2017

Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has been appointed by President Rouhani to head his telecommunications ...

Women’s Rights Activist Demands Rouhani Provide Reasons for His Exclusively Male Cabinet

Women’s Rights Activist Demands Rouhani Provide Reasons for His Exclusively Male Cabinet

August 14, 2017

Women’s rights advocate Nahid Tavasoli. President Hassan Rouhani must explain why he didn’t nominate women to serve in his new cabinet, feminist researcher ...

Political Prisoner Responds to “Dolled-Up” Evin Prison Visit by Foreign Ambassadors

Political Prisoner Responds to “Dolled-Up” Evin Prison Visit by Foreign Ambassadors

August 14, 2017

A political prisoner held in Evin Prison since 2009 has harshly criticized a state-organized “dolled-up” tour of the facility by a group of foreign diplomats ...

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