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August 2, 2018

Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Facing Prison For Criticizing Judiciary

Iranian attorney Mostafa Tork Hamadani has been charged for criticizing the judiciary for barring him and other defense lawyers from defending ...

August 2, 2018

Imprisoned Teacher Denied Hospitalization Amid Two-Month Hunger Strike

After refusing food for nearly two months, imprisoned teacher Rouhollah Mardani’s health is deteriorating in Evin Prison in Tehran, a relative told the ...

August 1, 2018

Iran’s Telecommunications Company Illegally Reroutes Telegram App Traffic

Move Designed to Tighten Ban on App But Ineffective in the Long Run In a new move aimed at tightening the state-imposed ...

August 1, 2018

IRGC-Affiliated Media Trying to “Prepare Public Opinion” For Execution of Kurdish Man

Relatives of Ramin Hossein Panahi, a Kurdish man on death row in Iran, have raised concerns ...

July 31, 2018

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Detention Order Extended Under Two National Security Charges

Iran’s judiciary has extended the detention of prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is facing two national ...

July 31, 2018

Conflicting Reports on Iranian Opposition Leaders’ Freedom From House Arrest

A member of Iran’s Parliament has denied reports that the country’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has ruled to end the seven-year-long house arrests of ...

July 29, 2018

Man Convicted of National Security Crimes in Iran For Allegedly Promoting His Baha’i Faith

The Appeals Court in Iran’s Kurdistan Province has upheld a one-year prison sentence against Zabihollah Raoufi, who was accused of proselytizing his Baha’i faith. ...

July 29, 2018

Woman Expelled From Iranian University Just Before Obtaining Degree Because She’s Baha’i

A young Baha’i woman was expelled from Iran’s Islamic Azad University in the city of Isfahan one semester before completing her bachelor’s degree in ...

July 29, 2018

Nine Years After It Was Drafted, Iran’s Parliament Begins Debating Child Abuse Bill

Bill Lacks Enforcement Mechanisms A bill drafted nine years ago in Iran to combat child abuse is finally being debated by Parliament following a number of ...

July 27, 2018

Kurdish Activist Facing Prison Time in Iran For Criticizing Supreme Leader

Kurdish political activist Mokhtar Zarei was summoned and taken into custody in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, on July 21, 2018, for criticizing Iran’s Supreme ...

July 27, 2018

Iran Affirms Right of Constitutionally Recognized Religious Minorities to Run in Local Elections

Sepanta Niknam has reclaimed his city council seat in the city of Yazd, southeastern Iran, nine months after he was suspended by ...

July 27, 2018

Rapper Detained For More Than a Month Without Lawyer in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan Province

Rap artist Shah Baloch, real name Emad Bijarzehi, has been detained in the southeastern Iranian port city of ...

July 25, 2018

Judge Tells Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe That She’ll Remain Imprisoned Until UK Pays Debt to Iran

A judge in Tehran has admitted that Iranian British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will not be released from prison until Iran receives payment for an ...

July 24, 2018

Iranian American and US Permanent Resident Released on Bail From Iran’s Evin Prison

Karan Vafadari and Afarin Neyssari Awaiting Appeal in Tehran Two years after being sentenced to long prison sentences without due process ...

July 21, 2018

Detained Teachers’ Rights Activist Denied Months of Salary Due to “Fault of Others”

Detained teachers’ rights activist Mohammad Habibi is being denied his monthly state salary despite not being convicted ...

July 21, 2018

Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi’s Sister Banned From Travel as State Continues to Harass Her Family

From her cell in an infamous Iranian prison, imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has condemned Iran’s judiciary ...

July 21, 2018

Iranian Judiciary Closes Acid Attack Cases With No Convictions But Promises Victims Compensation

Nearly four years after a series of acid attacks on women in the Iranian city of Isfahan, ...

July 21, 2018

Activists Note Serious Failings by Iranian Organization Tasked With Supporting People With Disabilities

As Iran’s State Welfare Organization (SWO) marked its 38th birthday, several people with disabilities...

July 21, 2018

Labor Reps in Iran Protest Disappearing Benefits as Hard Hit Workers Struggle Under Ailing Economy

A group of labor representatives from around Iran gathered during the country’s 2018 national Social Security Day, July 16, in front ...

July 20, 2018

Iranian Love Story: Arash & Golrokh

Even as a political prisoner in Iran, Arash Sadeghi is still putting the needs of others above his own. In his love letters to his wife, Golrokh, he imagines ...

July 19, 2018

Sons of Iranian Canadian Who Died in Evin Prison Sue State Broadcaster For Slander

Ramin and Mehran Seyed-Emami have sued Iran’s state-run TV, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), for slandering their father Kavous Seyed-Emami, who died under suspicious circumstances...

July 18, 2018