Women's rights advocate Nahid Tavasoli is the editor-in-chief of Nafe, an academic women’s periodical. The low number of female participants in Iranian elections is an indicator of ...
Iranian media outlets have been ordered to stop reporting on former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s third presidential campaign for the ...
The presidential bid of ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi has been strongly criticized by supporters of human rights. In 1988, Raisi was appointed to a special ...
Imprisoned children and human rights activist Atena Daemi has been stricken with ...
Prominent political activist, Azam Taleghani, 72, makes ...
The candidacy of Ebrahim Raisi in Iran’s May 19 presidential election ...
Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and former political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh has ...
After disqualifying the initial reformist winner, Iran’s conservative Guardian Council has now barred most reformist candidates from running in the second-round election for ...
Former political activist Majid Asadi has been detained without charge in Evin Prison’s Ward 209 under the ...
Ebrahim Raisi Was Member of “Death Commissions” that Ordered Extrajudicial Killings of Thousands of Prisoners in 1988 April 14, 2017–The candidacy in ...
Abbas Lesani, an Azeri ethnic rights activist, is being tried for advocating state recognition of his mother tongue and making ...
A month before Iranians head to the polls for the presidential and council elections, a heated exchange between the judiciary and ...
"Voting in Iran" by cartoonist Touka Neyestani....
Imprisoned civil rights advocate Atena Daemi has started a wet hunger strike to protest new sentences issued against ...
Mohammadi: Imprisonment Makes Me More “Determined” Imprisoned human rights defender Narges Mohammadi has been offered temporary release if she promises to be ...
Molavi Fazl al-Rahman Kouhi, an outspoken Sunni cleric in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan Province, was released from detention on $31,000 USD ...
The son of late Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who publicly condemned the extrajudicial executions of thousands of ...
Forced Separation Angers Iranian Female Runners Tehran’s first international marathon will be remembered as a sex-segregated event with little sign of the Americans who ...
Music producers Mehdi and Hossein Rajabian returned to Evin Prison in Tehran on April 4, 2017 after their request for ...
A little over a month before Iranians head to the polls on May 19, 2017, Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani has warned that a ...
An additional 91 days were added to civil rights activist Atena Daemi’s seven-year prison sentence...
Spokesman Strays From State Line on Hijab Despite interest expressed by foreign female runners, women participants in Tehran’s first international marathon will be ...
A number of Iranian female billiard players have been banned for a year from competitions for allegedly “violating the Islamic code of conduct” ...
Political activist Jafar (Shahin) Eghdami shaved his head and went on a three-day hunger strike on March ...
Robin (Reza) Shahini, the Iranian-American man sentenced to 18 years imprisonment in Iran on alleged security charges, has been ...
