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August 1, 2017

Family, US Congress Convince Imprisoned US Permanent Resident to End Hunger Strike in Iran

Nizar Zakka “Under Intense Torture and Pressure” A Lebanese-born US permanent resident who was sentenced in September 2016 to 10 years imprisonment in Iran ended his ...

August 1, 2017

Student Imprisoned for Refusing to Spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Denied Visitation Rights

Imprisoned for refusing to spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, Hamid Babaei has been denied visitation rights at ...

July 31, 2017

Political Prisoners’ Letter to Foreign Ambassadors Who Went on Staged Tour of Evin Prison

Editor's Note: On July 5, 2017, dozens of foreign diplomats based in Iran went on a staged tour of Evin Prison designed ...

July 31, 2017

Judicial Official Threatens Rouhani’s Telecommunications Minister With Criminal Charges Over Telegram

Photo caption: Telecommunications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi (right) and Deputy Prosecutor General Abdolsamad Khorramabadi Iran’s Deputy Prosecutor General Abdolsamad Khorramabadi ...

July 31, 2017

Iranian Sugar Plant Workers Detained Without Bail After Protesting Unpaid Wages and Benefits

Eight workers at one of Iran’s largest and oldest agricultural companies remain detained without bail after being arrested for ...

July 30, 2017

MPs Say Efforts “Continuing” to Free Opposition Leaders Amid Karroubi’s Hospitalization

Former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi ...

July 28, 2017

Police Arrest Peaceful Participants at Annual Commemoration for Popular Dissident Poet Ahmad Shamlu

Iranian police and security forces dispersed a gathering marking the 17th anniversary of popular poet Ahmad Shamlu’s...

July 27, 2017

Detained Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Recovering From Emergency Medical Procedure

Six Years Later, Karroubi Still Awaiting First Trial Former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, under extrajudicial house arrest since 2011, is recovering in the hospital after undergoing ...

July 27, 2017

Prisoners’ Families Plead for Stays of Executions Until Vote on Potentially Life-Saving Amendment

The families of prisoners facing imminent execution gathered in front of the judiciary’s headquarters in Tehran on July 26, 2017 to ...

July 27, 2017

Iran Shrugs Off US Demand for Release of Imprisoned Citizens

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July 27, 2017

Telegram’s Efforts to Increase Download Speed in Iran Raises Questions   

Placement of Telegram CDNs in Iran Requires Increased Transparency June 27, 2017—In light of the decision by the messaging application Telegram to use closed content ...

July 25, 2017

1,600 Teachers Demand Iran’s Judiciary Free Imprisoned Rights Activist

More than one thousand Iranian teachers have issued a statement calling for the release of a teacher imprisoned for peacefully advocating for teachers’ rights in the southern ...

July 25, 2017

Sufi Devotee With Heart Disease Denied “Urgent” Medical Care in Bandar Abbas Prison

Despite worsening heart disease, Mohammad Ali Shamshirzan, an imprisoned dervish of Iran’s Sufi Gonabadi Order in Hormozgan Province, ...

July 24, 2017

Sunni Council in Iran Suspends Operations Amid Ongoing Arrests and Intimidation

Dissident Sunni cleric ...

July 24, 2017

Downgraded Sentence for Teachers’ Rights Activist Issued Amid Ongoing Prosecution of Labor Leaders

Teachers' rights ...

July 22, 2017

Political Prisoners Including Swedish Resident Hidden from Ambassadors During Evin Prison Visit

Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali and his wife, Vida ...

July 22, 2017

Impoverished Children Without Identification Documents Deprived of Education in Iran

Children without state-issued identification documents mostly from Iran’s underdeveloped border provinces are being denied education in Iran, attorney Osman Mozayan told ...

July 22, 2017

Iranian State Censorship Body Blocks Websites Belonging to Persecuted Sufi Gonabadi Order

State authorities in Iran have blocked access to websites belonging to the Sufi Gonabadi Order to ...

July 22, 2017

Iran’s Telecommunications Minister Pledges To “Get Rid of” Foreign Social Media Despite Past Failed Attempts

President Hassan Rouhani’s Telecommunications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi has refuted criticism that he has been unwilling to block online content deemed immoral by ...

July 20, 2017

11 Christian Converts Issued Long Prison Sentences in Iran in Less Than Two Months in Sham Trials

The Holy Savior Cathedral church in Isfahan, Iran. Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh on Sentencing Spree Since June 2017 July 20, 2017—The ...

July 20, 2017

UNESCO 2030 Educational Guidelines Scrapped by Iran Include Essential Protective Measures Against Child Abuse

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July 18, 2017

Married Women in Iran Still Need “Permission” to Travel Abroad Under Amendment to Passport Law

Member of Parliament Parvaneh Salashouri (left) and human ...

July 18, 2017

Cartoon 171: Privacy in Iran

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July 18, 2017

Pro-Rouhani Journalist Tortured by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Acquitted of Anti-State Charges

More than two years after his arrest and torture by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reformist journalist Farzad Pourmoradi, a supporter ...

July 17, 2017

Details of US Student’s 10-Year Sentence in Iran Reveal Yet Another Arbitrary Prosecution of a Western National

Xiyue Wang, a graduate ...

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