Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi and five other prominent Iranian human rights lawyers have called for the prosecution of state officials who have encouraged violence against protesters in the ...
As details emerged about the number of casualties and arrests that occurred during the first six days of the ...
For the first time since the mass protests of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has imposed tighter than usual restrictions on internet access to curb the ...
January 2, 2018—The Iranian government and state security forces should immediately end their violent crackdown on the nationwide protests that have so far led to the deaths ...
At least 21 people have been killed and hundreds arrested since a wave of protests hit several Iranian cities on December ...
Editor's Note: Mahdavifar’s two-year prison sentence was upheld by an Appeals Court on July 3, 2018. Poet Mohammad Mahdavifar has been ...
The Iran Gymnastics Federation has walked back its threat to discipline a 10-year-old gymnast for allegedly taking part in an international competition without wearing ...
Political prisoner Majid Assadi is being denied urgent hospitalization despite severe pain in his spine and digestive problems, the Center ...
Protests flared across several Iranian cities during the last week of December 2017 as citizens faced off with security forces to demand ...
Several female politicians in Iran have criticized a conservative colleague for attempting to smear a bill proposed by the Rouhani government that aims to reduce ...
Protests erupted in several Iranian cities on December 28, 2017, as citizens peacefully spoke out against the rising cost ...
Unidentified assailants attacked two synagogues in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz on December 24 and 25, 2017, and destroyed or desecrated religious ...
The wife of an Iranian-born Swedish resident sentenced to death in Iran on espionage charges has denied ...
Award-winning director Mohammad Rasoulof has revealed that he has been banned from making films in Iran and is ...
Detained after criticizing a powerful local lawmaker, Sina Ghalandari, an independent journalist based in the city of Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, has been released on ...
Prisoner Alireza Golipour, who suffers from epilepsy, has threatened to go on a life-threatening hunger strike again if judicial authorities do not carry out their promise to review ...
Anti-vice police arrested more than 230 young men and women at two private parties in Tehran during the Iranian festival of Yalda on December ...
With only two opposing votes, Iran’s Parliament has overwhelmingly passed the outlines of a bill designed to ...
Six days after Iran’s Parliament passed an amendment reaffirming the right of minorities to run in local council elections, the Guardian ...
Former Iranian Vice President Hamid Baghaei has denounced his 63-year prison sentence, alleging it ...
Political prisoner Ali Shariati is being denied specialist medical treatment by Evin Prison’s medical chief ...
“All they want to do is harass the political prisoners.” The authorities of Rajaee Shahr Prison are keeping ...
After four months in arbitrary detention, Iranian journalists Sasan Aghaei and Yaghma Fashkhami...
Majid Dorri(right) and ...
Baha’i leader Behrouz Tavakkoli has spoken out about the Iranian government’s “misunderstandings” about his minority faith. Tavakkoli spoke to the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on December 15, 2017, 11 days after his release from Rajaee Shahr Prison ...
