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April 12, 2018

Teachers’ Rights Advocate Writes Scathing Letter From Prison on Revolutionary Iran’s Failed Promises

Esmail Abdi Warns Judiciary of the Consequences of Its “Illegal Rulings” Ahead of Hunger Strike Prominent teachers’ rights advocate Esmail Abdi has ...

April 12, 2018

Iran’s Expediency Council Dragging Its Feet Over Fate of Religious Minority Candidates in Local Elections

Six months have passed and the Iranian government has still not resolved the dispute over the suspension of a Yazd ...

April 12, 2018

Swedish Resident Who Tried to March Through Iran With Monarchist Flag Facing National Security Charges

On March 21, 2017, Kamran Ghaderi, an Iranian-born resident of Sweden, began walking from Stockholm...

April 11, 2018

Iranian State Hackers Launched Attacks on Same Day Supreme Leader Issued Fatwa Forbidding Privacy Violations

On the same day that Iran’s supreme leader issued a religious ruling ordering the ...

April 10, 2018

Iranian Political Prisoner Urges “Contentious People” To Be the Voice of His Imprisoned Wife

Authorities Ignore Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi’s Life-Endangering Hunger Strike Imprisoned civil rights activist Arash Sadeghi has urged “all ...

April 10, 2018

Supreme Leaders Uses Fatwa to Silence Widespread Distrust of Domestic Apps

Religious Ruling Follows News That Widely Used Telegram App Will Soon Be Blocked Following a recent flurry of public criticism of ...

April 9, 2018

Rouhani Admin Facing Backlash Over Plan to Give 100 Vetted Journalists Uncensored Internet Access

Abbas Salehi, Iran's minister of culture and Islamic guidance. Journalists Tweet “I’m Not Interested” to Protest Discriminatory ...

April 7, 2018

Inaccessible Louvre Exhibit Highlights Ongoing Challenges For Persons Living With Disabilities in Iran  

A popular exhibition by the Louvre Museum in Paris at the National Museum of ...

April 6, 2018

Hundreds Arrested as Anger Over State Discrimination Against Iranian Arabs Spills Into the Streets

Ahvaz Friday Prayer Leader Calls For Apology From State TV Over Discriminatory Children’s Show At least 200 people were arrested after ...

April 5, 2018

Iran Poised to Block Popular Telegram Messaging App But Lacks Feasible Alternative

Decision made at the “highest level” has set the stage for blocking social network used by 40 million. App can be blocked on ...

April 4, 2018

Iran’s Categorization of Autism As a “Special Disease” Is a Double-Edged Sword for Persons With Disabilities

The Iranian Parliament’s recognition of autism as a “special disease” will have positive and negative consequences for persons ...

April 3, 2018

Imprisoned Iranian Baluchi Rights Activist Not Heard From Weeks After Sudden Transfer

The family of imprisoned Baluchi civil rights activist Emadeddin Mollazehi has not heard from him since he was moved on March 14, 2018, ...

March 30, 2018

Metal Band Member Sentenced to Six Years Prison in Iran Accused of Creating “Satanic Music”

Nikan Khosravi, a member of the Iranian metal band “Confess,” left Iran for Turkey to avoid being imprisoned for six years ...

March 30, 2018

43 People Charged in Iran’s Kermanshah Province For Protesting Against the State

Forty-three people have been charged for protesting against the government in Kermanshah, the capital of Kermanshah Province in western Iran, in ...

March 30, 2018

Imprisoned Former Iranian VP Refusing Food and Water to Overturn Prison Sentence

Hamid Baghaei, who served as Iran’s vice president under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is in “serious condition” from refusing ...

March 30, 2018

Harsh Sentence Upheld For Iranian Kurdish Activist While Brother Awaits Appeal on Death Sentence

An Appeals Court has upheld the eight-year prison sentence issued against Iranian Kurdish civil rights activist Afshin ...

March 29, 2018

Iran Cracks Down on Kurdish Activists After Anti-State Protests

At Least Two Activists Facing “National Security” Charges Iran’s cyber police, known as FATA, and the Intelligence Ministry have summoned rights activists in mainly Kurdish-populated provinces ...

March 29, 2018

Christian Property in Iran to Be Taken Over by Supreme Leader’s Organization

Very few photographs exist online of Sharon Gardens, a large and valuable ...

March 28, 2018

Three Cases Provide Glimpse Into Ongoing Denial of Medical Care to Political Prisoners in Iran

Dozens of prisoners in Iran held on politically motivated charges are being denied medical treatment ...

March 28, 2018

Second Iranian Woman Sentenced to Prison for Protesting Mandatory Hijab

University student will spend a year behind bars for “encouraging corruption” Maryam Shariatmadari, one of the “Girls of Revolution Street” protesting ...

March 27, 2018

Attorney Blocked From Taking on Human Rights Cases in Iran Calls For Revision of “Flawed” Law

A lawyer representing the family of an Iranian Canadian academic who recently died in an Iranian ...

March 27, 2018

Supreme Leader’s Comments on “Freedom” in Iran Ring Hollow For Victims of Rights Abuses

A former public defender that worked in Iran on cases involving human rights violations has spoken out ...

March 26, 2018

Iranian Environmentalists Remain Detained Months After Arrests While Families Seek Answers

At Least 13 Environmentalists Have Been Detained in Iran Since January 2018 Seven environmentalists who were arrested in Tehran nearly two months ago ...

March 26, 2018

Official Suggests Iran May Soon Block Access to Widely Used Telegram Messaging App

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March 22, 2018

Iranian American Groups Urge Trump Admin to Investigate “Targeting” of Civil Servant Sahar Nowrouzzadeh

Sahar Nowrouzzadeh was demoted from her position at the secretary of state’s policy planning team after far-right ...

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