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February 16, 2018

Iranian Authorities Arrest Lawyer Who Exposed Death of Protester in Police Custody

Civil Rights Activists Also Detained February 16, 2018 – Attorney Mohammad Najafi has been held in detention in the Iranian city of Arak since January ...

February 15, 2018

Environmentalists Detained in Iran Denied Legal Counsel Weeks After Arrests

Some Detainees Allowed Brief Contact With Their Families Environmental activists who were detained at the same time as Kavous Seyed-Emami—who recently died in ...

February 15, 2018

Mother of Ailing Hunger Striker Atena Daemi Assaulted in Front of Evin Prison

  Atena Daemi (right) with her mother Masoumeh Nemati. Masoumeh Nemati, the mother of imprisoned civil rights activist Atena Daemi, was attacked in front of Evin Prison in Tehran ...

February 14, 2018

These Women Risked Imprisonment in Iran to Protest the Compulsory Hijab

 In December and January of this year, Iranian women challenged the Islamic Republic’s compulsory hijab by waving their headscarves in public in various cities across Iran. They risked ...

February 14, 2018

Seyed-Emami’s Son Reveals Threats Against Family

Kavous Seyed Emami and his son, Ramin. Ramin Seyed-Emami Says Family is Seeking Independent Investigation February 14, 2018 -- The son of ...

February 14, 2018

Lawyer: IRGC Film of Seyed-Emami’s Prison Cell Does Not Show Act of Suicide

Film Shows Detainee Visibly Agitated Before Disappearing From Camera’s View A lawyer representing the family of Kavous Seyed-Emami, who died under ...

February 14, 2018

15 Prominent Iranians Call For a Referendum on the Islamic Republic

“The state has become the main obstacle to the progress and liberation of the Iranian nation” Fifteen prominent Iranians including lawyers, directors and academics, ...

February 13, 2018

Some University Students Still Detained a Month After Iran’s Protests Despite Officials’ Claims

Contrary to Iranian official’s claims that all the university students who were detained in connection with Iran’s ...

February 13, 2018

MP: “More Details Necessary” To Determine Cause of Iranian-Canadian’s Death in Custody

Tehran Prosecutor Claims Autopsy Conducted But Still No Medical Examiner’s Report Iran’s deputy parliamentary speaker has stated that, based on a video produced by the Islamic ...

February 12, 2018

Mother Denies Espionage Charges Against Son Detained in Crackdown on Environmental NGO in Iran

Sam Rajabi was detained on January 25, 2018. ...

February 12, 2018

Female Iranian MPs Demand Action on Stalled Bill Aiming to Preventing Child Abuse

Lawyers Point to Existing Laws and Lack of Enforcement as the Real Problem Some Iranian female lawmakers have called for immediate deliberations ...

February 12, 2018

Clear Signs of State Cover-Up in Prison Death of Iranian-Canadian Academic in Iran

Distraught Family Under Enormous Pressure to Bury Body Quickly and Not Speak Publicly About the Death February 12, 2018—The ...

February 12, 2018

Pollsters Arrested While Conducting Survey Showing Majority of Iranians Dissatisfied With Domestic Affairs

Some pollsters who were gauging views about Iran’s December 2017 protests have been arrested, according to Mohammad Aghasi, the head of the Iranian ...

February 11, 2018

Defenders of Human Rights in Iran Mourn the Passing of Asma Jahangir

February 11, 2018 -- It is with great sadness that we heard of the death of Ms. Asma ...

February 10, 2018

Iranian-Canadian Academic Dies in Custody While Under Interrogations

A third detainee, 63-year old Iranian-Canadian professor Kavous Seyed-Emami, has died in custody in Iran, barely 17 days after his arrest and while under interrogations ...

February 10, 2018

Follower of Sufi Order Expelled From Iranian University After Refusing to Sign Pledge

Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani, a member of the Gonabadi Dervish Sufi order, was expelled from Tehran’s Tarbiat Modares University on February ...

February 10, 2018

25 Legal Experts Urge Iranian Official to Address “Public Archive” of Abuses Against Baha’is

Twenty-five professors, lawyers and judges from around the world have called on the head of Iran's High Council for Human ...

February 9, 2018

Thousands of Undocumented Iranians Denied Affordable Kerosene In Winter Months

Tens of thousands of people living in poverty in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province are being denied heating oil in the ...

February 9, 2018

Two Female Political Prisoners To Begin Refusing Food and Water Over Sudden Transfer to New Prison

Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee(left) and Atena Daemi Imprisoned civil rights activists Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and Atena Daemi...

February 9, 2018

Rights Group: Security Agents Killed At Least 20 in Sistan and Baluchistan Province in 2017

At least 20 ethnic Baluchis were killed and 19 wounded after being shot by law enforcement agents who were allegedly pursuing ...

February 9, 2018

Swedish Resident Facing Death in Iran Details How He Was Forced to Make False Statements   

The wife of a Swedish resident imprisoned in Tehran has revealed the way her husband, Ahmadreza Djalali, was ...

February 9, 2018

Revised Law Could Save Thousands on Death Row in Iran

 Up to 5,000 people facing death in Iran could be saved as a result of a recently revised law--but there's a catch. Here's the story of an emerging Iranian ...

February 8, 2018

UK Resident Detained in Iran by IRGC For More Than a Year Without Charge or Access to Counsel

Mohammad Reza Hashemi-Nabi, a permanent resident of the UK, has been held in solitary confinement in Iran’s Evin ...

February 7, 2018

Authorities Ignore Potential Cancer Diagnosis For US Resident Nizar Zakka, Deny Him Medical Care

"Evin Prison officials are using medicine as a weapon" US permanent resident Nizar Zakka...

February 7, 2018

“This is Slavery” 30 Sugar Plant Workers Arrested in Iran For Demanding Unpaid Wages

Police arrested more than 30 protesters on the fourth day of a strike by hundreds of workers on February ...

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