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 ...
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 ...
Payam Vali’s manufacturing business was shuttered ...
The CEO of Iran’s Soroush messaging app, Meysam ...
Father Claims IRGC’s Intelligence Organization is Cooking Up Case Against His Activist Son Reformist political activist Mohammadreza Jalaeipour, an Oxford ...
More than 100 Iranian artists and movie industry personalities have urged President Hassan Rouhani to lift the state ban ...
Former Presidential Candidate Mehdi Karroubi Detained in His Home Without Trial Since 2011 An Iranian cleric and former presidential candidate who has been restricted ...
Several Iranian celebrities publicly turned down President Hassan Rouhani’s invitation to attend a Ramadan “iftar” dinner scheduled for May ...
Fifteen negotiators representing protesting farmers in the southern Iranian province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad were arrested on May 29, 2018, as they ...
Ten striking workers at Iran's Heavy Equipment Production Company (HEPCO) in the city of Arak, south of Tehran, were charged with ...
Iran’s Education Ministry is violating Iranian law and the country’s commitments to the UN Convention on the ...
Police and security forces blocked an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the anti-censorship Iranian Writers Association...
The Baha'i International Community (BIC) at the United Nations has expressed alarm over a spate of arrests of Baha’i ...
Bullets fired by police in the city of Kazeroon, Fars Province, killed two men—Ali Mohammadian and Azad Omid Reza Yousefian—during ...
Mohammad Salas’ Attorney Zeynab Taheri Summoned to Court to Face Charges The lawyer of Tehran-based death row prisoner Mohammad Salas...
Imprisoned Dual National Allowed to Speak to UK Ambassador for First Time After being told she is facing the charge of “propaganda against the ...
Conservatives Increasingly Endorsing Twitter as Propaganda Front Six Iranian ministers and two members of Parliament (MPs) have sent a letter to President Hassan Rouhani calling ...
At least 21 (15 dual nationals, five foreign nationals and one foreign permanent resident) were known to be held in Iran (imprisoned, under house arrest, or prohibited from leaving the country) as of July 2022 ...
The head of Iran’s Department of Environment (DOE), Vice President Isa Kalantari, has publicly rejected claims by hardline judicial officials and ...
Iranian Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has revealed that the number of Telegram users ...
After banning the widely used Telegram messaging app, the Iranian government is once again ...
Political prisoner Mohammad Ali (Pirooz) Mansouri, eligible for conditional release after spending more ...
Protests in Kazeroon Ongoing For Months Over Plan to Divide City At least two people are suspected to have ...
A Sufi bus driver who was sentenced to death in Iran for running over three policeman ...
The wife of an Iranian Canadian academic who died in Iranian custody under suspicious circumstances in February 2018 was hospitalized for three days after exhibiting symptoms of a ...
