August 29, 2017

Namazis Lose Appeal Against 10-Year Prison Sentence

Iranian-American Businessman and His 81-Year-Old Father Remain Held on Unspecified Charges after Sham Prosecution That Lacked Due Process Iranian-American businessman ...

August 29, 2017

In Letter to Judge, Iranian-American Demands Freedom for Himself and Wife

Art Gallery Owners Karan Vafadari and Afarin Neyssari Held on Baseless Charges More Than One Year Without Trial Detained Iranian-American art dealer ...

August 29, 2017

Iran Upholds 10-Year Prison Sentences Against US Resident and Two Iranian-Americans

Iranian-American Businessman and His 81-Year-Old Father Remain Held on Unspecified Charges after Sham Prosecution That Lacked Due Process Iran’s Appeals Court has ...

August 28, 2017

Judiciary Official Opposes New Proposal Against Domestic Violence

A senior Iranian judiciary official has voiced opposition to legislation against domestic violence which is being revived by President Hassan ...

August 28, 2017

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 ...

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 opposition ...

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 ...

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