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 ...
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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 country. ...
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 Ward Without ...
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 Zahra Rahnavard, ...
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 ...
August 15, 2017
Political Pundit Sadegh Zibakalam Faces Charges For Discussing Politicization of Iran’s Judiciary
Prominent reformist political analyst Sadegh Zibakalam has been slapped with the charges of “propaganda against the state” and ...
August 14, 2017
Women’s Rights Activist Demands Rouhani Provide Reasons for His Exclusively Male Cabinet
Women’s rights advocate Nahid Tavasoli. President Hassan Rouhani must explain why he didn’t ...
August 14, 2017
Political Prisoner Responds to “Dolled-Up” Evin Prison Visit by Foreign Ambassadors
A political prisoner held in Evin Prison since 2009 has harshly criticized a state-organized “dolled-up” ...
August 13, 2017
With Eye on Telegram, Internet Body Says All Social Media Apps Must Store Data Inside Iran
The Supreme Cyberspace Council in session. To improve Iran’s ...
August 11, 2017
Iranian Imprisoned Spiritual Leader Awaiting New Verdict While IRGC Arrests His Followers
Followers of imprisoned Iranian spiritual leader Mohammad Ali Taheri are being arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary ...
August 11, 2017
Reformist MPs Form Committee to End House Arrests After Karroubi’s Hospitalization
Reformist members of Iran’s Parliament have established the Committee to Seek an End to House Arrests ...
August 10, 2017
Iran Executes Man Arrested at 15 Despite Commitment to Stop Executing Juveniles
Prominent Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh: Case Had “Serious Holes” August 10, 2017–Iran has violated its international obligations by executing Alireza Tajiki, who was 15-years-old when he was arrested and 16 ...
August 9, 2017
Workers at Iranian Sugarcane Company Summoned to Court After Protesting Unpaid Wages
Workers of the Haft Tappeh sugarcane company protest for their unpaid ...
August 9, 2017
Prominent Labor Activist Returns to Prison After Medical Leave “Unapproved” by Prosecutor
Almost three years after he was released, prominent labor activist Reza Shahabi has returned to prison to serve the remainder of a six-year prison ...
August 8, 2017
Iran’s Beleaguered Music Community Urges Rouhani to Prevent Concert Cancellations
Contemporary Iranian music singers Shahram Nazeri ...
August 8, 2017
Azeri Man Facing Prison Time for Peacefully Advocating Ethnic Language Rights in Iran
Facing prison time for his peaceful advocacy of Azeri ethnic rights, Asgar Akbarzadeh has been summoned to the ...
August 8, 2017
Labor Activist Describes Torture and Inhumane Living Conditions at Iran’s Largest Prison
Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) Teachers rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi...
August 4, 2017
Families in the Dark as Prisoners at Rajaee Shahr Illegally Moved to High-Security Ward
Rajaee Shahr Prison The sudden transfer of dozens of political prisoners in ...
August 4, 2017
Political Prisoner in Solitary Confinement for Hunger Striking Against Wife’s Detention
Soheil Arabi with his wife and daughter. Political prisoner Soheil Arabi, serving a seven-year prison sentence ...