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July 12, 2016

Judiciary Refuses to Review Case of Political Prisoner Who Qualifies for Early Release

Ahmad Karimi Najjar, a political prisoner currently serving the seventh year of his 16-year prison sentence in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr Prison, could be ...

July 12, 2016

Commentary: Iran’s Hard-Liners Crack Down as Their Base of Support Narrows

This commentary was originally published in the World Politics Review. Hadi Ghaemi There is a crackdown underway in Iran. But it is no longer ...

July 11, 2016

Iran Judiciary Threatens Narges Mohammadi After Her Hunger Strike Gets International Attention

A Judicial official has threatened Narges Mohammadi, a leading human rights defender who was recently sentenced to 10 ...

July 11, 2016

Iran’s Judiciary Refuses to Review Case of Political Prisoner Who Qualifies for Conditional Release

Judicial officials are refusing to review the case of political prisoner Mohammad Ali (Pirooz) Mansouri who is legally eligible for conditional release ...

July 8, 2016

Labor Rights Activists Detained Incommunicado in Iranian Kurdish City of Sanandaj

Labor rights activists Hashem Rostami and Mozaffar Salehinia have been imprisoned in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kordestan Province, for more than two weeks without charge ...

July 8, 2016

Man Who Was Imprisoned in Iran for Posting Jokes on Facebook Denied Timely Appeal Verdict

Soheil Babadi has written an open letter detailing the torture he experienced during interrogations. Computer engineer Soheil Babadi, who was imprisoned ...

July 7, 2016

Prominent Political Prisoner Promised, Though Still Not Allowed, Phone Contact with Children

Taghi Rahmani believes his wife Narges Mohammadi is being mistreated in prison because he fled the country years ago. Iran’s judicial authorities have promised to ...

July 7, 2016

Imprisoned Journalists Granted Brief Reprieve from Prison

After eight months in detention, newspaper columnist Afarin Chitsaz was released from Evin Prison in Tehran on July ...

July 6, 2016

Ailing Political Prisoner Temporarily Released and Promised Retrial Shortly After Judiciary’s Harsh Refusal

Imprisoned labor activist Jafar Azimzadeh was temporarily released on “extendable furlough” on June 30, 2016 ...

July 5, 2016

Teacher’s Rights Champion Beaten and Slapped with New Charge after He Attempts to Visit Political Prisoner

A little over a week after teachers’ rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi was conditionally released from prison on April 29, ...

July 5, 2016

Imprisoned Human Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi on Hunger Strike to Maintain Contact with her Children

In a desperate bid to gain permission to speak to her children on the phone, the prominent human rights activist Narges ...

July 5, 2016

Teachers’ Rights Activist Could Face Three Years in Prison for Visiting Political Prisoner

A little over a week after teachers’ rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi was conditionally released from prison on April 29, ...

June 27, 2016

Ailing Political Prisoner Denied Critically Needed Medical Care for Her Diabetes

Held with Violent Criminals at Vakilabad Prison for Criticizing the Government on Facebook Political prisoner Nahid (Omolbanin) Gorji has been denied adequate medical ...

June 24, 2016

Kurdish Political Prisoner Put in Solitary Confinement to Force Him to End Hunger Strike

Prosecutor: “As long as he continues his hunger strike, he will stay in solitary confinement and will die there.” Kurdish political prisoner Ayoub Assadi has been placed in solitary confinement to force ...

June 24, 2016

Labor Rights Activist in Critical Condition After 50-Day Hunger Strike

Prominent leftist scholar Noam Chomsky has called for Jafar Azimzadeh’s release Labor rights activist Jafar Azimzadeh is in ...

June 24, 2016

Pro-Rouhani Newspaper Suspended in Hardline Campaign Against President

A week after Tehran’s hardline chief prosecutor announced he would be suing the editor-in-chief of the major ...

June 24, 2016

Elderly Political Prisoner’s Early Release Blocked Despite Supreme Leader’s Decree

Seventy-two-year-old political prisoner Mohammad Hossein Rafiee has threatened to go on hunger strike if the authorities continue to block ...

June 24, 2016

Guilt by Association: Wife of Prominent Labor Activist Charged for Alleged Facebook Post

The wife of a prominent labor activist has been charged with posting “insulting” content on Facebook even though she insists she is ...

June 22, 2016

Imprisoned Journalist Who Sent Letter to Supreme Leader Saying He Was Tortured is Hospitalized

Ehsan Mazandarani, who went on hunger strike on May 17, is in intensive care following a heart attack ...

June 21, 2016

Authorities Reverse Decision to Release Detained Dual National Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Richard Ratcliffe’s hopes were dashed when he found out that his wife, a British-Iranian dual national who has been detained in Iran without legal representation since April ...

June 21, 2016

Commentary: Iran’s Foreign Minister Toes the Supreme Leader’s Line on Human Rights

ICHRI- When Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently tried to side-step questions about the country’s abysmal human rights record, he yet again exposed ...

June 20, 2016

New Rules at Rajaee Shahr Prison Target Political Prisoners for Harsh Treatment

Harsher rules have been imposed upon political prisoners at Rajaee Shahr Prison, already know for its grim conditions, according ...

June 20, 2016

New Report: Inside the Women’s Ward: Mistreatment of Women Political Prisoners at Iran’s Evin Prison

Political prisoners held in the Women’s Ward at Iran’s Evin Prison are routinely denied medical care and hospitalization, face restricted or denied visitation rights even with their young children, are deprived of regular telephone contact with their families, and are not provided adequate nutrition, as ...

June 17, 2016

Iran’s Judiciary Evades Responsibility for Lashing Sentences against Striking Miners

After a month-long silence amid widespread condemnation of the decision by Iran’s Judiciary to intervene in a local labor dispute and punish 17 protesting mine workers with lashing ...

June 17, 2016

Religious Minority in Iran Asks Khamenei for Constitutional Protection

The leadership of the Yarsan faith in northwestern Iran has written to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, ...

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