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June 18, 2018

Iran Defends Its Record on Supporting Persons With Disabilities But Serious Discrimination Persists

The head of the Welfare Organization of Iran Anoushirvan ...

June 18, 2018

UN Rights Experts: Iran Must Halt Execution of Ramin Hossein Panahi

GENEVA, UN (18 June 2018) – UN human rights experts* have made a fresh call to Iran to annul the death ...

June 14, 2018

University Student Activists Sentenced to Prison After Being Arrested by President Rouhani’s Intelligence Ministry

University of Tehran student activists Sina Darvish Omran and Ali Mozaffari were each sentenced to eight years in prison on June 11, ...

June 14, 2018

60 Steelworkers Arrested in Iran For Demanding Three Months Back Wages

More than 60 workers at the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (INSIG) in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, have been arrested for demanding their salaries, ...

June 14, 2018

Baha’i Student Expelled From Iranian University One Year Before Graduation

Soha Izadi was expelled from a university in the Iranian city of Zanjan, 207 miles west of Tehran, in March ...

June 13, 2018

Prominent Attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh Detained Amid Iranian Judiciary’s Crackdown on Human Rights Lawyers

Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh previously served three years in ...

June 12, 2018

Sufi Detainees Tried En Masse in Iran as Some Launch Hunger Strike Against Denial of Due Process

Eight detained members of the Sufi Gonabadi Order have gone on hunger strike at the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) to protest prison conditions and the ...

June 12, 2018

Who Are the State-Vetted Lawyers Exclusively Allowed to Defend Detainees Facing Political Charges in Iran?

List Not Finalized According to Judicial Official Iran’s judiciary has not released the names of the 20 state-approved lawyers exclusively allowed to represent detainees ...

June 11, 2018

Let Her Sing: Female Vocalist Struggles to Perform in Islamic Republic of Iran

Sepideh Jandaghi is a professional singer who's unable to perform solo in Iran because she's a woman. The Islamic Republic's laws and customs also ...

June 8, 2018

Rouhani Calls Suspension of Non-Muslim City Council Member “Really Upsetting”

Sepanta Niknam was suspended from the Yazd City Council for being a member of the Zoroastrian faith. Suspended ...

June 8, 2018

Iranian Poet Sentenced and Fined For Posting Photo of Man Injured by Police

Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin has been sentenced and fined in Iran for posting a photo ...

June 7, 2018

Third Woman Sentenced to Prison in Iran For Removing Hijab Slapped With More Charges

Civil rights activist Shima Babaei: “They said the hijab is the law and I must respect it. I told them it’s a bad law and I’m protesting against ...

June 7, 2018

Telegram Channel Admin Could Get Death Penalty For “Insulting the Prophet”

Weakened by his hunger strike, prisoner of conscience Hamidreza Amini was transferred to a hospital in hand and ankle cuffs but was returned to prison before the treatment ...

June 6, 2018

Arab Rights Activist Hatam Morammezi Dead After One Year of Detention in Iran

Hatam Morammezi holding his nephew. Family Threatened to Stay Silent About the ...

June 6, 2018

Nobel Laureate Anticipates Crackdown in Iran as Judiciary Bans Human Rights Lawyers From Security Cases

Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. “Note to Article 48” Limits Detainees’ Counsel Choices to 20 State-Approved Lawyers Nobel Peace ...

June 5, 2018

Iranian Human Rights Attorneys Speak Out Against State-Approved List of 20 Lawyers For “National Security” Cases

Human rights lawyers in Iran are speaking out against a list released by the judiciary designating 20 state-approved lawyers to exclusively represent detainees held on politically motivated charges. “A number of lawyers ...

June 4, 2018

10 Years Later, This Baha’i Manufacturer is Still Fighting to Claim His Business in Iran

Payam Vali’s manufacturing business was shuttered ...

June 1, 2018

Iranians Complain of Fake Accounts Created in Their Names on State-Approved Soroush App

The CEO of Iran’s Soroush messaging app, Meysam ...

June 1, 2018

Oxford PhD Student Denied Legal Counsel 40 Days After Being Arrested in Iran

Father Claims IRGC’s Intelligence Organization is Cooking Up Case Against His Activist Son Reformist political activist Mohammadreza Jalaeipour, an Oxford ...

June 1, 2018

107 Iranian Film Personalities Urge Rouhani to Lift State Ban on Pre-Revolution Actor

More than 100 Iranian artists and movie industry personalities have urged President Hassan Rouhani to lift the state ban ...

June 1, 2018

Iranian Cleric Under Seven-Year House Arrest Says Only Death Will Bring Him Freedom

Former Presidential Candidate Mehdi Karroubi Detained in His Home Without Trial Since 2011 An Iranian cleric and former presidential candidate who has been restricted ...

June 1, 2018