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Prisoners / Arrests

Grave Concerns Over Detainees’ Safety Following Arrests at Slain Lawyer’s Memorial

Grave Concerns Over Detainees’ Safety Following Arrests at Slain Lawyer’s Memorial

December 17, 2025

39 Detained, Access to Lawyers and Families Denied, Brutal Interrogations Underway December 17, 2025 — Concerns are intensifying over the safety, health, and legal rights of at least ...

Narges Mohammadi and other Activists Violently Arrested at Memorial Service for Slain Lawyer

Narges Mohammadi and other Activists Violently Arrested at Memorial Service for Slain Lawyer

December 12, 2025

Eyewitness: “Arrests were carried out with severe violence” Streets Blocked, Crowd Prevents Arrest of Slain Lawyer’s Brother ...

Over 80 Iranian Lawyers Demand Transparency in Suspicious Death of Human Rights Lawyer Khosro Alikordi

Over 80 Iranian Lawyers Demand Transparency in Suspicious Death of Human Rights Lawyer Khosro Alikordi

December 11, 2025

Brother of Alikordi Summoned, Authorities Warn Activists Not to Give Any Speeches at Funeral December 11, 2025 — A group of 81 lawyers, all inside Iran, have signed a ...

UN: Iran Must Halt Execution of Woman Survivor of Child Marriage and Abuse

UN: Iran Must Halt Execution of Woman Survivor of Child Marriage and Abuse

December 3, 2025

“Her execution would constitute a grave violation of international human rights law” December 3, 2025 — Top UN human rights experts have urgently ...

Eight Political Prisoners at Grave Risk of Execution as Death Sentences Upheld

Eight Political Prisoners at Grave Risk of Execution as Death Sentences Upheld

November 25, 2025

At least 42 Political Prisoners Currently Sentenced to Death in Iran Case of Ehsan Faridi, 22, Highlights Gross Abuses by Interrogators and Judicial Officials November 25, 2025 — ...

Victim of Child Marriage Faces Execution in Iran

Victim of Child Marriage Faces Execution in Iran

November 13, 2025

Execution Scheduled for December Unless $90K Paid for Killing Abusive Husband Denied Lawyer During Interrogation, Coerced into Confession Despite Illiteracy November 13, 2025 — At only 12 years ...

Writers and Scholars Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Iran

Writers and Scholars Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Iran

November 6, 2025

Whereabouts Unknown, No Contact with Families or Lawyers Iranian Authorities' Attack on Intellectuals Meant to Silence Any Independent Thought November 6, 2025 — In a coordinated operation targeting ...

Iran Shuts Down Oldest NGO Supporting Vulnerable Children, Detains Founder

Iran Shuts Down Oldest NGO Supporting Vulnerable Children, Detains Founder

November 3, 2025

NGO Leader Held Without Charge, Whereabouts Unknown, Denied Access to Family and Lawyer State’s Intensifying Assault on Civil Society Will Worsen Crisis Facing Iran’s Children November 3, 2025 ...

UN: Iran’s Surge in Unlawful Executions May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity

UN: Iran’s Surge in Unlawful Executions May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity

November 3, 2025

November 3, 2025 — The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran has sounded the alarm over the serious deterioration of the human rights situation in ...

Iran’s Rappers: Voices of Dissent, Targets of the State

Iran’s Rappers: Voices of Dissent, Targets of the State

October 27, 2025

Artists Face Arrests, Torture, Forced Confessions, Prison October 27, 2025 — In Iran, rap music has become a powerful and peaceful form of dissent, with many rappers ...

Political Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Highlights Plight of Religious and Political Prisoners in Iran

Political Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Highlights Plight of Religious and Political Prisoners in Iran

October 23, 2025

Nasim Simiyari Protests Iran’s Brutal Persecution of Baha’is, Demands Release of Fariba Kamalabadi October 23, 2025 — In Iran, where defendants are convicted after ...

Iran’s New Tactics to Crush Mandatory Hijab Resistance: Business Raids and Surveillance

Iran’s New Tactics to Crush Mandatory Hijab Resistance: Business Raids and Surveillance

October 15, 2025

Closures, Undercover Agents, and Prosecutions Replace Street Patrols in New Phase of Mandatory Hijab Enforcement October 15, 2025 — The battle over the mandatory hijab in Iran ...

Iran’s Qarchak Prison: A Place of Death That Must Be Closed

Iran’s Qarchak Prison: A Place of Death That Must Be Closed

October 7, 2025

Three Women Prisoners Dead in Ten Days After Denial of Medical Care October 7, 2025 — In the span of just over a week, three ...

Three Years After Bloody Friday, Iran Shields Commanders Behind the Massacre of Over 100 Protesters

Three Years After Bloody Friday, Iran Shields Commanders Behind the Massacre of Over 100 Protesters

September 30, 2025

"We Killed Them; Take Your Blood Money" Low-Level Officers Receive Light Sentences, Senior Officials Walk Free; Families of Victims Coerced into Silence and Denied Justice September 30, 2025 ...

45 Women Political Prisoners in Iran Blame Authorities for Death of Somayeh Rashidi After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care

45 Women Political Prisoners in Iran Blame Authorities for Death of Somayeh Rashidi After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care

September 25, 2025

Woman Political Prisoner in Iran Is Dead After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care Many Others At Risk Due to Systematic Denial of Medical Care ...

Wave of Unlawful Arrests Targets Iran’s Minority Children 

Wave of Unlawful Arrests Targets Iran’s Minority Children 

September 24, 2025

Children Held Incommunicado, Without Any Access to Families or Lawyers “The number of children who have been arrested is higher than the cases reported.”  September 24, 2025 — ...

Lives at Risk: An Urgent Call from Inside Evin Prison

Lives at Risk: An Urgent Call from Inside Evin Prison

September 22, 2025

A letter from imprisoned Iranian lawyers urging immediate medical care for their colleague, Taher Naqavi, and an urgent appeal to the international legal community ...

Iran Intensifies Crackdown on Teachers: Dozens Arrested, Fired, or Sentenced for Peaceful Union Activity

Iran Intensifies Crackdown on Teachers: Dozens Arrested, Fired, or Sentenced for Peaceful Union Activity

September 17, 2025

At Least 45 Teachers Unlawfully Targeted During Summer School Break “The judicial proceedings and security pressures against these teachers have been completely unlawful”  September 17, 2025 – ...

‘They see us as targets’: Iran’s Brutal Repression of Journalistic Freedom

‘They see us as targets’: Iran’s Brutal Repression of Journalistic Freedom

September 3, 2025

‘Don’t step outside your house. You are going to be arrested again.’ September 3, 2025 — The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to be ...

UN Human Rights Chief Demands Iran Cease All Executions

UN Human Rights Chief Demands Iran Cease All Executions

September 2, 2025

UN Says Iran Uses the Death Penalty “as a Tool of State Intimidation” Condemns “Disproportionate targeting of ethnic minorities and migrants” In a forceful statement issued by the ...

Iran’s Destruction of Graves from 1980s State Massacres Must Be Condemned

Iran’s Destruction of Graves from 1980s State Massacres Must Be Condemned

August 26, 2025

Paving Over Mass Graves Destroys Evidence of Crimes against Humanity  August 26, 2025—The Iranian authorities’ destruction of the graves of victims of the state’s massacres of political ...

Scores of Political Prisoners Will Be Executed in Iran Without an International Outcry

Scores of Political Prisoners Will Be Executed in Iran Without an International Outcry

August 21, 2025

Numerous Prisoners at Imminent Risk as International Attention is Focused Elsewhere Governments Must Demand a Halt to Iran’s State-Sanctioned Killing Editor's note: This article has been amended on ...

Crushing Dissent Outside the Spotlight in Iran’s Provincial Cities

Crushing Dissent Outside the Spotlight in Iran’s Provincial Cities

August 12, 2025

Arrests, Imprisonments, Death Sentences Surge in Small Towns Where Minorities Predominate State Agents, Judges, Prison Authorities Rain Down Abuse Without Fear of Scrutiny  August 12, 2025 — Far from the international spotlight ...

‘Bloody Saturday’ in Ghezel Hesar: Testimony from Political Prisoners Expose Brutal Assault and Executions by Iranian Authorities

‘Bloody Saturday’ in Ghezel Hesar: Testimony from Political Prisoners Expose Brutal Assault and Executions by Iranian Authorities

August 11, 2025

Firsthand letter reveals coordinated attack, beatings, and execution of two political prisoners: ‘We’ll kill every last one of you sons of whores!’ August 11, 2025 — The following letter, authored by a ...

Over 1,300 Activists Demand End to Iran’s Brutal Anti-Afghan Crackdown

Over 1,300 Activists Demand End to Iran’s Brutal Anti-Afghan Crackdown

August 5, 2025

“Deporting ‘illegal migrants’ is a euphemism for inhumane treatment of all migrants” Over 1.5 Million Afghans Forcibly Deported from Iran So Far in 2025 ...

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