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April 22, 2016

Mehdi Karroubi: Despite Five Years of House Arrest, He Continues to Speak Out against Abuse of Power in Iran

Former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who has been living under extrajudicial house arrest for over five years for contesting the result of Iran’s widely disputed ...

April 22, 2016

EU Must Not Ignore Iran’s Human Rights Record, Says Former Political Prisoner

“Do not forget the spilt blood of Iranian youths or the young and old prisoners suffering in small and large prisons in this country when you ...

April 21, 2016

Imprisoned Physicist Loses Kidney to Cancer, Must Be Released Permanently

Omid Kokabee’s Life Endangered by Years of Denied Medical Care in Iran Prison April 21, 2016—Omid Kokabee, the young physicist who has been imprisoned in ...

April 20, 2016

Iranians May Soon Be Able to Make International Online Transactions

Denials Raise Questions Over Whether Deal Will Go Through A global payment service provider based in the U.S. has announced that it has ...

April 18, 2016

Imprisoned Young Physicist Stricken with Cancer after Years of Denied Medical Care

April 18, 2016—Prisoner of conscience Omid Kokabee, the young physicist who has been imprisoned in Iran for over five years for his refusal to work ...

April 15, 2016

Hunger Striker in Critical Condition Vows to Continue Strike

Political Prisoner Protests His Imprisonment and Denial of Medical Care Prisoner of conscience Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, who ...

April 15, 2016

Business Leaders around the World Call for an End to Iran’s Closure of Baha’i Businesses

Read this article in Persian here. Letter to Khamenei Urges Respect for Economic Rights of Baha’is In a signed ...

April 14, 2016

Lawyer Released from Prison in Iran Describes Grim Conditions for Political Prisoners

Prisoners Face Denial of Medical Care, Refusal to Transfer Inmates to Hospital despite Life Threatening Illness, Solitary Confinement Aimed at Extracting False Confessions, Poor Nutrition, Denial of ...

April 13, 2016

Iranian VP Summoned to Judiciary for Commenting on High Execution Rate of Drug Traffickers

Shahindokht Mowlaverdi, Iran’s vice president for Women and Family Affairs, has been summoned to the Judiciary to explain a comment ...

April 11, 2016

Voices from Iran: What are your expectations of President Rouhani?

 In this new video, the Campaign asks Iranians from all walks of life inside and outside Iran to share their hopes and expectations of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani for ...

April 11, 2016

Journalist Afarin Chitsaz Held Incommunicado at Evin Prison for Five Months

Status of Case and Charges against Her Remain Unknown Concern is growing for the well-being of newspaper columnist Afarin ...

April 7, 2016

Disqualification of Elected Female Reformist MP Sparks Heated Debate in Iran

Two weeks have passed since Minoo Khaleghi’s election to Parliament in Iran’s recent elections was ...

April 5, 2016

Iranian Internet Freedom and Cyber Security at RightsCon

Fundamental Changes in Content Delivery: Opportunities and Challenges On the first day of the RightsCon conference, hundreds of participants from around the world shared their insights on ...

April 5, 2016

Peaceful Demonstrators for Animal Rights Arrested in Tehran

Phones of Film Star and Others in Gathering Illegally Confiscated by Police Hedieh Tehrani, a film star and animal rights activist, was arrested ...

April 1, 2016

Young Woman’s Quest for Higher Education Exposes Iran’s Discrimination Against Baha’is

Rouhieh Safajoo, a student banned from Iranian universities because of her Baha’i faith and arrested for her online activism, was released on March ...

April 1, 2016

Iranian Political Prisoner Goes on Hunger Strike To Protest Denial of Health Care

Prisoner of conscience Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been on a wet hunger strike since March 26, 2016 ...

March 28, 2016

Canadian Resident Sentenced to Three Years in Jail Shortly After Returning to Iran

Political prisoner Mostafa Azizi, one of many émigrés who returned to Iran following assurances ...

March 27, 2016

Iranian Judiciary Took No Action despite Formal Complaint Detailing Torture of Baha’is in Prison

Letter Comes To Light Three Years after Brutal Physical Abuse of Detained Baha’is Details of torture inflicted upon twelve Baha’is by ...

March 25, 2016

Cartoon 144: The Master’s Message

In a video message on the occasion of the Persian New Year, Norooz, prominent Iranian musician Mohammad Reza Shajarian announced his 15-year battle with cancer. ...

March 24, 2016

“Blood Money” Frees Imprisoned Ranger Who Killed Poacher In Self-Defense

Gholam-Hossein Khaledi, an Iranian park ranger sentenced to death for killing a poacher in 2010, was released on March 18, 2016 after paying 12 ...

March 24, 2016

In Brazen Electoral Interference, Hardliners Disqualify Female Reformist MP

Reformists Call on Rouhani to Stop Hardliners from Blocking Elected Candidates March 24, 2016—The reformist MP Minoo Khaleghi, newly elected to Parliament ...

March 23, 2016

Prominent Iranian Journalist Remains Hospitalized After Delayed Health Care

Severe health problems are keeping prisoner of conscience Issa Saharkhiz, a prominent reformist journalist, under observation in ...

March 22, 2016

Societal Demand in Iran for Female Representation in Government is Unstoppable

Hardliners' Entrenched Resistance is Overcome in Polls An overlooked outcome of Iran’s recent elections is the unprecedented success of women, ...

March 19, 2016

Lawyer Who Took on Ahmadinejad Says Iranians Should Sue Government for Pollution Crisis

Iranians have a constitutional right to take their government to court and seek damages for worsening environmental pollution, attorney Mostafa Tork Hamadani told the ...

March 18, 2016

New App Lets Iranians Download Information Via Satellite and Bypass State’s Internet Censorship

Mehdi Yahyanejad, Toosheh's founder. A young company run by a group of Iranian-American professionals based in California has ...

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