Iran Appeals Court Upholds 16-Year Prison Sentence Against Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi
Mother of Two Young Children Will Be Eligible for Release Only After 10 Years An Appeals Court has upheld ...
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Five-Year Prison Sentence for Dual National Casts Shadow Over Iran’s Opening to World
Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe’s Sentence Announced Two Weeks Before Rouhani Comes to NY September 12, 2016—The five-year prison sentence for Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, a ...
Iranian Judiciary Must Stop Punishing Media for Reporting Officials’ Corruption
September 9, 2016—Iran’s Judiciary must halt the prosecution of media outlets which carried out their journalist duty in publishing reports ...
Unjustly Imprisoned Young Physicist Granted Conditional Release After Five Years
Omid Kokabee’s Release Comes After Months Struggling with Kidney Cancer That Was Left Untreated in Prison August 29, 2016—Imprisoned ...
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 ...
UN Body Calls for Immediate Release of Bahareh Hedayat
Imprisonment of Prominent Women and Human Rights Defender Is Against International Law, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Rules June ...
Campaign’s Letter to Rouhani: Allow Women Spectators to Attend World Volleyball Games in Tehran
Over the past few years, since Iran's national volleyball team rose to international prominence, ...
New Video: Time for Anti-Baha’i Discrimination to End in Iran
State Officials Launch New Wave of Verbal Attacks after Former President’s Daughter Visits Baha’i Prisoner June 07, 2016—The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and Impact Iran released an animated ...
Leading Iranian Human Rights Activist to Serve Ten Years in Prison
Narges Mohammadi Sentenced for Her Peaceful Activism in Iran May 19, 2016—The prominent Iranian human rights activist ...
Iran’s Fashion Industry under Assault; Details of Arrests of Models by Revolutionary Guards Surface
Eight Arrests and Scores Interrogated in "Project Spider 2" May 17, 2016—Eight people working ...
Revolutionary Guards’ Cyber Attacks Now Directed at Rouhani Cabinet Members
IRGC Actively Recruiting Technical Experts to Staff New Hacking Team April 26, 2016—Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, who have long waged ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Iran Vote: Political Freedoms Must Be Rouhani’s Top Priority
Electorate Wants Human Rights and Rouhani Must Deliver March 1, 2016—In the elections for Parliament and the Assembly ...
Hardliners Handpick Candidates to Block Moderates and Rig Elections
3000 reformist applicants (99%) disqualified for Parliament in first vetting. 63% of all applicants disqualified in first vetting, reduced to 40% ...
Release of Iranian Americans Welcomed, Time to Release All Political Prisoners
Steps Towards Reconciliation with the West Are Good but Iran Needs National Reconciliation As Well January 16, 2016—The International Campaign for Human ...
Young Poet Hila Sedighi Arrested at Airport in Tehran, Latest in String of Arrests
Photo by Reza Baharinejad from Hila ...
Arrests Gather Pace in Iran after Khamenei Gives Green Light for Crackdown
Fear of Post-Nuclear Deal Rapprochement with West Drives Intensified Repression November 9, 2015—Several journalists were arrested in ...
Iran Should Allow UN Human Rights Expert into Country
International Community Should Pursue Human Rights with Same Commitment as the Nuclear Deal October 29, 2015—The international community should urge Iranian authorities to allow the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Dr. ...
Telegram Reveals Iranian Government’s Request to Spy on Its Citizens
Telegram, which unlike Twitter and Facebook is not filtered in Iran, has emerged ...
Narges Mohammadi Should Be Released Immediately and Given Medical Treatment
Narges Mohammadi October 20, 2015—The health of imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi has deteriorated, ...
Two Poets Sentenced to Flogging and Nine and Eleven Years in Prison
Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Moosavi Forced Confessions Used as Primary ...