Seven Baha’i Faith Members Sentenced to Three Years Imprisonment in Bushehr
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Parisa Rafiei, a student at the University of Tehran, was pressured to take a “virginity test” while in state custody and then ...
Authorities’ Focus on Political Activists while Violent Individuals Go Unnoticed on Social Media Following the killing of Mostafa Ghasemi, a cleric in the city of ...
On May 5, 2019, the Iranian Parliament’s Judicial and Legal Affairs Committee approved a problematic proposal that would allow detainees accused of national ...
Iran’s minister of education has called on the police to trace the “source” of what he described as “disturbing videos” of schoolchildren ...
(9 May 2019) – UN human rights experts* called on Iran to immediately halt the practice of executing child offenders, citing ...
An adviser to President Hassan Rouhani was met with protesters at Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran on May 1, 2019, where ...
Xiyue Wang (left) poses for a photo with his son and wife. ...
Hamid Fatehi, a deputy minister at the Ministry ...
Several workers’ rights activists including teachers who were arrested at rallies in Tehran on May 1 (International Labor Day) and May 2 (Iran’s ...
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Marzieh Amiri, a reporter for the reformist Shargh newspaper, has been in Evin Prison’s Ward 209 under the control of the Intelligence Ministry since she was arrested ...
Political activist Siavash Rezaeian has been told to report to a prison in central Iran for criticizing former Judiciary Chief Sadegh ...
Prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi was recently taken from Evin Prison to a hospital in Tehran where she was told she ...
UN, GENEVA (3 May 2019) – The execution of two 17-year-old boys in Iran on charges of rape and robbery, after a trial that appears to have seriously breached fundamental due process guarantees, ...
Charity worker Akram Nasirian was arrested by unidentified security agents in Tehran for unknown reasons, according to the Telegram channel of the ...
The trial of three board members of the Iranian Writers Association (IWA) was held at Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran on ...
A peaceful demonstration by people demanding workers’ rights in front of Iran’s Parliament in Tehran on International Workers’ Day, May 1, ...
“People Lack Buying Power, Writers Lack Inspiration,” Says Novelist Several books by dissident authors in Iran were banned from the 32nd Tehran International ...
University students in Iran could be punished for engaging in online activities deemed by the government as “unethical” following the passage of an ...
“The authorities…refuse to accept the fact that they have condemned a woman lawyer to suffer the inhuman act of flogging and a long ...
April 24, 2019 – Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s statement today that he has the “authority” to exchange Iranian-Americans imprisoned in Iran with the ...
Kamal Jafari Yazdi Had a Change of Heart After the 2009 Protests Kamal Jafari Yazdi, a former staunch supporter of the Iranian government, has been sentenced to 13 ...
Twenty-five women and men were arrested at a private party near the Iranian city of Gorgan, Golestan Province, on April 19, 2019, judicial ...
Lawyers representing workers’ rights activists Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Qoliyan say the two are being held unlawfully now that their two-month detention orders ...