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 21, 2017. Yalda ...
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 have ...
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 ...
After finally receiving approval to screen his movie “I’m Not Angry” in Iran, director Reza Dormishian’s film was ...
A family photo of Richard Ratcliffe, Gabriella, and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. December 21, 2017--The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ...
December 21, 2017 -- The decision by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to repeal net neutrality rules has given a green light to ...
A screenshot of a clip of Ahmadreza Djalali’s so-called “confession” on Iran’s state-run IRIB state TV. Iranian state TV aired a forced ...
GENEVA (20 December 2017) – United Nations human rights experts* have appealed to Iran to annul the death sentence against an Iranian academic, ...
The Tehran prosecutor's office has ignored a request by imprisoned Iranian-Austrian dual national Kamran Ghaderi...
Update: Reza Shahabi was released on March 19, 2018. December 19, 2017—The Iranian judiciary should immediately free ailing trade unionist Reza Shahabi, who recently suffered ...
A scene from Ahmadreza Djalali's forced confession that was aired on Iran's state-run ...
Iranian director Abdolreza Kahani cancelled a screening of one of his films in Canada after Iran’s Ministry of Culture ...
Political prisoner Narges Mohammadi has criticized Iran’s judiciary and security organizations for holding detainees in solitary confinement for prolonged periods without charge while trying to build ...
An imprisoned trade unionist, Reza Shahabi, has been denied hospitalization despite suffering a stroke, ...
Blood money should be calculated on the basis of actual costs and inflation, not the market price for camels, as it is currently based ...
Judge Salavati Often Assigned to Issue Harsh Sentences in Political Cases The judge who will re-sentence imprisoned spiritual thinker Mohammad Ali Taheri ...
Sohrab Mokhtari is the son of writer Mohammad Mokhtari, who was murdered by agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in 1998. The families of ...
