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 ...
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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 3, ...
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 Rights, ...
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 have ...
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 ...
February 6, 2018
Imprisoned Iranian-American Art Dealer Accuses IRGC of Judicial Interference
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February 6, 2018
Woman Arrested For Removing Hijab in Tehran Refuses to Repent Despite Facing 10 Years in Prison
Narges Hosseini, who was arrested for protesting Iran’s compulsory hijab, refused to appear in court to face charges punishable by up to ...
February 5, 2018
Iranian Hardline Cleric Says Protesters Should be Sentenced to Death
A Friday prayer leader in Tehran has called for the death penalty to be issued to citizens who participated in the ...
February 5, 2018
Shirin Ebadi: Bill That Restricts Protests to Designated Areas in Iran Adds “More Limits” to Freedom of Speech
A proposed bill aimed at designating public spaces in Iran for protests will lead to “more limits” on the people’s right ...
February 4, 2018
29 Arrested in Tehran for Public Protests Against Forced Hijab
Police in Tehran have turned 29 people over to the judicial authorities for taking part in a growing campaign against forced hijab, the hardline ...
February 3, 2018
Hardline Judge Keeps Iranian-American and Wife in Jail by Imposing $27 Million Bail
Family Meets Bail for Wife, but Judge Still Refuses to Release Her The judge presiding over the case of imprisoned Iranian-American gallery ...
February 1, 2018
Parliamentary Delegation Visiting Evin Prison Told 4,534 Were Arrested in Iranian Protests
More than a month after thousands of people were arrested in Iran after weeklong protests erupted across the country beginning in ...
January 31, 2018
“Girls of Revolution St” Protest Ignites Debate on Iran’s Compulsory Hijab
Iranian women protest their country’s ...
January 31, 2018
Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Urges Supreme Leader to “Create the Grounds For Reform”
In a letter written under house arrest, opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has warned ...
January 31, 2018
Iranians Denounce Acquittal of Quran Reciter Accused of Sexual Abuse
Prominent Quran reciter Saeed Tousi shakes hands with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Reformist MP Releases ...
January 30, 2018
Iranian-American Zoroastrian Denounces 27-Year “Unjust” Prison Sentence in Letter From Prison
Update: The couple's sentence was later reduced to 15 years for Karan Vafadari and 10 years for Afarin Nayssari. ...
January 29, 2018
300 Iranian Women’s Rights Advocates Voice Support For Protests, Demand Equality
More than 300 Iranian women’s rights’ activists have expressed support for the recent anti-government protests in Iran and demanded an end ...
January 29, 2018
Iranian Pastor’s Wife Sentenced to Five Years in Prison For “Acting Against National Security”
Judge Ahmadzadeh Has Sentenced 16 Christians to Prison In Less Than A Year Shamiram Isavi, the wife of Victor Bet Tamraz, ...
January 29, 2018
Iranian-Kurdish Activist Sentenced to Death Says He Was Wrongfully Convicted of Drawing a Weapon
Iranian-Kurdish political activist Ramin Hossein Panahi will appeal the death sentence he was issued on January 25, 2018, by ...