Soheil Arabi Resumes Hunger Strike to Protest Harassment of His Family
Prisoner of conscience Soheil Arabi has restarted his hunger in Tehran’s Evin Prison to protest the persecution ...
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August 28, 2017
Taheri’s Death Sentence Will Not Stand, Says Hopeful Lawyer
The lawyer for imprisoned Iranian spiritual leader Mohammad Ali Taheri is optimistic that the latest death sentence against his ...
August 27, 2017
Tehran Prosecutor Calls Hunger Strikes “Threats” Amid Mass Strike at Rajaee Shahr Prison
“Prisoners must endure their punishment to the fullest” Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi has described hungers strikes undertaken by prisoners as “threats” that the judicial system ...
August 27, 2017
Reformist MP Calls for Judicial Investigation Into Imprisoned Journalist’s Worsening Health
A member of the Iranian Parliament has called on the judiciary to investigate reports about imprisoned reformist journalist Ehsan Mazandarani’s...
August 24, 2017
Rouhani VP Reaffirms Promises to Mehdi Karroubi After Pushback by Judiciary
Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri has publicly affirmed promises made by officials of the Rouhani government to detained political leader Mehdi Karroubi after ...
August 23, 2017
Cartoon 172: Authors in Iran
Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyastani depicts the life of authors in Iran, struggling to publish their works amid strict censorship laws....
August 23, 2017
Iranian Glue Company’s Rules Attract Scrutiny for Possible Rights Violations
HL Glue company CEO Khalil ...
August 22, 2017
Lawyer Accuses Intelligence Ministry in Kermanshah of Harassing Kurdish Civil Rights Activist
In the six months since she was released from a three-week detention, Iranian Kurdish children and women's rights activist Farzaneh Jalali has been repeatedly called ...
August 22, 2017
Judiciary Contradicts Rouhani Officials’ Promise to Detained Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi
The spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, has publicly rejected a report that security agents will leave detained ...
August 22, 2017
Christian Convert Released From Prison in Iran Slapped With Travel Ban
Zargaran Reports Being Given “Unnecessary” Anti-Psychotic Medication Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran, who was released from Evin Prison on August 1, 2017 after serving more than four ...
August 21, 2017
Reformist Journalist Not Heard From Two Weeks After Arrest in Tehran
Several Journalists Arrested in 2017 for Alleged Connections With Amad News Reformist journalist Sasan Aghaei’s family has not heard a word from him since he ...
August 21, 2017
Appeals Court Upholds 10-Year Sentence Against Princeton Student Xiyue Wang
An Iranian Appeals Court has upheld the 10-year prison sentence against American graduate student Xiyue Wang, held since the summer ...
August 18, 2017
Labor Activist Forced to Stay Behind Bars Until December 2018 Despite Completing Sentence
Update: With assurances from a senior official, labor activist Reza Shahabi ended his hunger strike in Rajaee Shahr Prison on September 27, 2017, after nearly two months ...
August 18, 2017
Countdown Begins for Karroubi’s Trial After Deal With Rouhani Government Ends His Hunger Strike
Now that detained political leader Mehdi Karroubi has ended his life-threatening hunger strike, all eyes are on President Hassan Rouhani to see if ...
August 17, 2017
Imprisoned Activist Atena Daemi Slapped With New Charge For Demanding Medical Care
Activist Denied Care Despite Medical Examiner’s Recommendation Already serving a seven-year prison sentence, imprisoned children’s rights activist ...
August 17, 2017
800 Activists Urge Iranian Parliament to End Child Marriage
Hundreds of Iranian women and children’s rights advocates in Iran are urging Parliament to prohibit underage marriage in the ...
August 17, 2017
Iranian Women’s Rights Activist to Serve Three Years in Prison For Attending Seminar
Women’s rights activist and photojournalist Alieh Matlabzadeh has been sentenced to three years in prison by a preliminary court in Tehran for participating in a women’s empowerment seminar. A legal source with knowledge about Matlabzadeh’s case told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on August 14, 2017 that the prison sentence was issued by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court for the ...
August 17, 2017
Sunni Arabs Beaten and Arrested in Iran For Praying in Public
Thirteen Sunni Arabs have been beaten by security and plainclothes agents and arrested for publicly praying in Ahvaz, the ...
August 17, 2017
Richard Ratcliffe Turns to UN and UK to Secure Wife’s Release From Iran
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Diagnosed With Advanced Depression After exhausting all legal avenues in Iran to overturn the five-year prison sentence issued in a secret trial ...
August 17, 2017
Music Producer Quarantined and Denied Family Contact for Arguing With Evin Prison Guard
Yousef Emadi Facing New Charge Imprisoned music producer Yousef Emadi was punished for three weeks by being moved to a quarantine ward ...
August 16, 2017
Six Inmates at Rajaee Shahr Prison Punished With Solitary Confinement For Going on Hunger Strike
Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj. Prisoners Protest Transfer to High-Security ...
August 16, 2017
Iranian Soccer Body Says Star Players Not Banned for Playing Against Israeli Team
Iranian soccer stars Masoud Shojaei (right) and Ehsan Hajsafi (left). “No Decision” Ruling Issued Following Social ...
August 16, 2017
Detained Political Leader Mehdi Karroubi on Life-Threatening Hunger Strike
August 16, 2017—The Iranian judiciary must immediately release ailing political leaders Mehdi Karroubi, who is currently on hunger strike, Mir Hossein Mousavi and ...
August 16, 2017
Rouhani Cabinet Pick Linked to Mass Surveillance of 2009 Protesters
Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi ...
August 16, 2017
Editor of Prominent Iranian Reformist Newspaper Etemad Arrested for Fourth Time
Journalist Sasan Aghaei Repeatedly Targeted by Security Organizations The arrest of Sasan Aghaei, the deputy editor of the reformist daily newspaper ...