On April 17, 2014, more than one hundred guards and intelligence agents raided Evin Prison's Ward 350, where political prisoners are held, according to a Kaleme website ...
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Last week Iranians around the world began their celebration of Nowruz, the Persian New Year. In this cartoon, along with the ...
More than three years have passed, and yet there is still no sign of movement in the case of ...
February 14, 2014, marked three years since Mehdi Karroubi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Zahra Rahnavard were placed under a de facto and illegal house arrest in Tehran. ...
This new book of editorial cartoons by leading Iranian artist Touka Neyestani chronicles one year of human rights issues in Iran. ...
Imprisoned activist Bahareh Hedayat has been experiencing serious health issues that could potentially leave her sterile if ...
Iran is currently reviewing education and family planning policies to try to reverse the declining birthrate in ...
Air pollution in Tehran, one of the world's most polluted cities, has been especially severe this week, leading authorities ...
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The wife and the mother of an exiled political prisoner died in a car crash as they were on their way back from visiting their relative in Masjed-e Soleyman Prison. Nahid Rahmani, mother, and Ziba Sadeghzadeh, wife, of Amir Reza ...
Former Iranian President Seyed Mohammad Khatami's foreign travel ban has received fresh attention since Nelson Mandela's funeral. Mohammad Khatami, president of Iran from 1997 to 2005, introduced ...
The Head of Iran's Judiciary Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani, speaking about human rights earlier this week on Human Rights Day, said, "As I've said before, many of the ...
“Capital punishment itself is a form of premeditated murder,” Ramin Jahanbegloo tells us in today’s podcast. Today we discuss a culture of violence that’s become deeply entrenched in Iranian society. State violence in the form of inhumane executions, cruel and ...
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In today’s podcast, Persis Karim talks about the literature of the Iranian diaspora and the creative restrictions on writers within Iran. ...
Fifteen years after the chain murders of Iran, which began with the killings of Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar, their daughter Parastou Forouhar hoped to hold a memorial ceremony at her house in Tehran this week. The Iranian authorities, however, prevented ...
On November 12, 2013, opposition figures and 2009 presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Mousavi’s wife Zahra Rahnavard, an author and political activist, will have spent 1,000 days under house arrest or detention without charge or trial. ...
The daughters of dissidents Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, who have been under extrajudicial house arrest since February 2013, visited their parents for Eid al-Ghadeer on October 23. As they were leaving, security guards attacked them and demanded that ...
Since President Hassan Rouhani took office this August, Iran has executed more than 200 people. ...
On October 28, the mother of prominent actress Pegah Ahangarani told the Iranian Student News Agency that Ahangarani has been under a travel ban since 2011 and that Judge Moghiseh of a Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced her to 18 months ...
“I ask all judicial and legal officials in Iran and abroad, as well as officials of human rights organizations inside and abroad, to pursue this subject [my case] in the region in order to prevent the murder of an innocent ...
After weeks of public objections to the Iranian Parliament’s approving a new bill which would make it possible for foster parents to marry their adopted children, Iran’s Guardian Council decided in favor of the bill last week and approved its ...
As Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani arrived in the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly, the major diplomatic issues of the day were Iran’s nuclear policy, its international relations, and regional disputes. Though hopes were high that Rouhani ...
Today the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran released the music video “Execution” by Okhtapus, featuring acclaimed Iranian singers Shahin Najafi and Majid Kazemi, which directly confronts the Iranian government’s routine practice of inhumane state executions. ...
In a September 14 letter addressed to Iran’s Intelligence Minister, 250 Iranian journalists and political activists asked the Minister to review the troubling conditions of Arash Sadeghi, a former student activist in custody since January 15, 2012. ...