Amir Mohammad Hossein Miresmaili, a former journalist and satirist for the Jahan Sana’at (Industry World) newspaper in Iran, has been sentenced ...
August 23, 2018 - The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges the Iranian Judiciary to turn the three-day furlough it has granted to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe into permanent and unconditional release. "Three days of ...
“They’re going to use the pins as criminal evidence, as if they had found bombs” Iranian security agents raided the homes of ...
Shiite mystic Mohammad Ali Taheri, who has been imprisoned in Iran since 2011, expects to be freed on parole “soon,” according to his lawyer ...
Ten years after Iran’s Parliament ratified the UN’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), ...
Iranian defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh was detained on June 13, 2018, and is ...
After security forces attempted to violently repress protests at the Haft Tappeh sugarcane company in southeastern Iran, at least ...
Former Mayor of Tehran Gholamhossein Karbaschi has been sentenced to one year in prison for publicly criticizing Iran’s involvement in the Syrian civil war, an ...
Twenty Sufi Muslims, all members of Iran’s Gonabadi Order, have been issued heavy prison sentences by the ...
The chief of Iran’s Department of Environment, Vice President Isa Kalantari, has told state media that the judiciary has ...
Iran's hardline prosecutor general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri. After several state ...
Iranian students clash with riot police during an anti-government protest around the University of Tehran, Iran, 30 December ...
A Kurdish man who has been sentenced to death in Iran despite serious concerns about how his case was handled has ...
Iranian defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has been detained in Evin Prison under national security charges since June ...
“Why is a Lonely, Elderly Mother Being Targeted Like This?” The mother of Farhad Meysami, a civil rights activist who has been detained in Iran since July 2018, says she ...
Prominent Rights Defender Has Lost 16 Pounds in Short Time Span The husband of prominent Iranian political prisoner Narges ...
Since Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi was approved by Iran’s Parliament as the minister of Information and Communications ...
Seven Human Rights Lawyers Detained or Blocked from Working in Iran in Less Than a Year August 14, 2018—An intensifying state crackdown on human rights defenders in Iran, in which the authorities have denied attorneys the ability to ...
Mizan News Agency “Incites Violence Against Our Journalists” Says BBC August 9, 2018—The inflammatory statements against the ...
State Broadcasts of Family Members Used to Silence Activists (New York, August 9, 2018) – Iranian authorities should immediately stop harassing and ...
A judicial investigation is underway in Iran to determine how 26-year-old shopkeeper Reza Otadi died from a bullet wound during a protest rally near Tehran ...
A bill in the final stages of Iran’s legislative process addresses the country’s legal vacuum regarding the abuse of children with disabilities but ...
Abdolfattah Soltani poses for a family photo. His daughter, Homa (right), passed away ...
Conservative-Dominated Parliament Compiles Data Showing Failure of State’s Hijab Policy Iran’s Parliamentary Research Center (PRC) has released a report showing decreasing support among ...
Detainees Held For Six Months Without Access to Counsel The families of environmentalists who have been detained in Iran for the ...
