In Iran, From Prison to Exile for Posting Jokes on Facebook
After completing a five-year prison sentence in Iran for posting jokes about religion on Facebook, the Judiciary has sent Soheil ...
After completing a five-year prison sentence in Iran for posting jokes about religion on Facebook, the Judiciary has sent Soheil ...
A screenshot of the heavily edited alleged ...
Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been detained in Tehran without due process since April 2016, was threatened with the ...
Tahereh Riahi, the social affairs editor of the state-funded Borna News Agency, who has been detained by the ...
Update: Sabri Hassanpour was released in April 2018. The officials of Evin Prison are denying Sabri Hassanpour, an Iranian-born citizen of the ...
Marian Vayghan reacts after her uncle is released from a detention center for deportation back to Iran ...
Newly landed passengers wait to ...
Shahnaz Akmali, the mother of a well-known victim of the Islamic Republic’s violent crackdown on the Green ...
Reza Salehi Amiri became the minister of culture and Islamic guidance in November 2016 after former minister Ali Jannati ...
"Death to Baha'is" reads the graffiti spray painted by a vandal on the gates of a Baha'i-owned home. Fifteen Baha'i ...
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Husband Writes Direct Plea to Rouhani January 25, 2017–The Iranian Judiciary’s recent upholding of ...
Kamal Foroughi, a 77-year-old ailing British-Iranian dual citizen and former civil engineer incarcerated at Evin Prison in Tehran since May 2011, has ...
Well-known Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin has been charged with “propaganda against the state” following his arrest ...
A survey of public opinion in Iran conducted in the last quarter of 2016 shows that even though a large majority of Iranians (...
Revolutionary Guards Pressured Judiciary for Harsh Sentences Civil rights advocate Aso Rostami—whose initial mass trial with three other activists lasted “barely 10 minutes”—was released from Rajaee Shahr ...
The Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned that Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi has called on President Hassan Rouhani to block access ...
The authorities of Evin Prison in Tehran are refusing to transfer imprisoned filmmaker Keyvan Karimi to a hospital outside the prison ...
Atena Daemi and Family Still Face Legal Persecution Three of the five new charges brought against imprisoned civil rights advocate Atena Daemi by the ...
An informed source close to imprisoned civil rights activist Saeed Shirzad said Shirzad ended his hunger strike after ...
Imprisoned political commentator Issa Saharkhiz began a wet hunger strike on January 14, 2017 to protest a newly issued six-month ...
Political prisoner Mohammad Nazari, imprisoned in Tehran for the past 23 years, has told the Campaign for Human Rights in ...
Political prisoners Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi, both ethnic Kurds on death row in Rajaee Shahr Prison in ...
Requests by prominent reformist leader Mohammad Khatami, political prisoners, and his ailing mother ultimately convinced imprisoned civil rights activist Ali Shariati to halt his hunger strike, after 75 days, ...
Fatemeh Haghighatjou, a former reformist member of Iran’s Parliament currently living in the United States, is desperately seeking information about her sister, Leila Haghighatjou, who ...
Saeed Shirzad has ...