Currently Imprisoned

October 18, 2019

14 Women Activists to Be Prosecuted for Demanding Supreme Leader’s Resignation

The prosecution of 14 women who signed a statement demanding the resignation of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will begin on ...

October 16, 2019

Reign of Evin Prison’s New Director Begins with Denial of Political Prisoners’ Rights

Female Prisoners of Conscience Denied Phone Contact with Children The appointment of Gholamreza Ziaei, former director of two disreputable prisons in Iran, as the new chief ...

October 15, 2019

Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi Has Been Separated from Her Children for Five Years and Counting

Imprisoned human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has not been able to hold her two children since 2015, for nearly five years, her mother Ozra Bazargan ...

October 14, 2019

Death Penalty-Carrying Charge Dropped Against Four Conservationists After Supreme Leader Intervened

The charge of “corruption on earth,” which can lead to the death penalty under Iranian law, has been dropped against four detained conservationists following ...

October 9, 2019

Appeals Court to Rule on Satirist’s Case Without Hearing His Defense

Iran’s Appeals Court, which met last week to review satirist Keyomars Marzban’s appeal against a preliminary court’s harsh sentence against ...

October 7, 2019

Sepideh Qoliyan Said She Was Tortured in Iran, Now She’s Serving an 18-Year Prison Sentence

Female Activist Described Inhumane Conditions of Detention in Video Statement *Warning: This article contains content that could be upsetting or disturbing for ...

October 2, 2019

Joint Letter on the Arrests of Activists’ Relatives by the Iranian Government

The undersigned human rights organizations are deeply concerned about arrests of family members of activists, journalists and political prisoners by the Iranian ...

October 2, 2019

Imprisoned Iranian-British Dual National Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Pleas for Release in New Letter

Unjustly Jailed Mother Relays Torment of Separation from Her 5-Year-Old Daughter Iranian-British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has made an impassioned plea ...

October 2, 2019

Thousands Sign Petition for Release of British-Iranian Dual National Imprisoned in Iran

Anoosheh Ashoori Serving a 12-Year Sentence on Sham Charges of Espionage More than 47,000 people have signed a petition calling for the release ...

September 27, 2019

Striking Iranian Sugar Plant Workers Add Colleagues’ Freedom to List of Demands

More than three years into ongoing strikes for unpaid wages and benefits, workers of Iran’s biggest sugar plant are now also calling ...

September 26, 2019

Baha’i Woman Blindfolded During Interrogations, Imprisoned Under “National Security” Crimes

Man Pressured to Make False Confession, Charged With National Security Crimes for Running Peaceful Baha'i Social Media Channels A Baha’i woman started serving ...

September 25, 2019

Authorities Deny Prisoner of Conscience Saeed Shirzad Eye Operation, Access to Mother’s Funeral

Prisoner of conscience Saeed Shirzad has been imprisoned for over five years for attempting to help the children of ...

September 23, 2019

“His Health is Deteriorating” Imprisoned US Navy Vet Undergoes Melanoma Operation in Iran

Imprisoned American navy veteran Michael White is in poor health after undergoing an operation to remove his ...

September 20, 2019

Audio Message From Gharchak Prison Reveals Intense Pressure on Labor Activist Sepideh Qoliyan

Mehdi Qoliyan Acquitted of All Charges After Violent Home Raid On September 14, 2019, the BBC aired an audio file containing the voice ...

September 17, 2019

Detained Iranian-British Anthropologist Says Charges Based on Government-Approved Research

Kameel Ahmady Was Held in Solitary Confinement for Nearly a Month, Detention Order Extended Held in solitary confinement since being arrested in Tehran ...

September 16, 2019

Australian Academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert Isolated for Months in IRGC-Controlled High-Security Ward

Iran Has Detained at Least Three Australians in the Last Year September 16, 2019 – Australian academic Kylie Gilbert-Moore has been held for almost a year in Ward 2-A of Tehran’s Evin Prison, controlled ...

September 6, 2019

Female Political Prisoners To Serve Additional Two Years For “Insulting” Supreme Leader

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September 5, 2019

15 Iran MPs Urge New Judiciary Chief to Stop Renewed Crackdown on Freedom of Speech

During a speech addressing Iran’s legislature, member of Parliament (MP) Parvaneh Salahshouri strongly criticized the recent crackdown on ...

August 30, 2019

Prisoners in Iran’s Gharchak Prison for Women Protest Inhumane Living Conditions

Prison Fails to Meet UN’s Minimum Standards for Treatment of Prisoners Two hundred inmates in Ward 5 of Gharchak Prison for women in ...

August 29, 2019

At Least 13 Signers of Open Letters Urging Khamenei’s Resignation Are Arrested

Demonstrating the Iranian authorities’ continued intolerance for peaceful dissent, two open letters written since June 2019 by 28 political and civil rights ...

August 29, 2019

No Family Visits or Lawyer Allowed for Detained Anthropologist Kameel Ahmady Two Weeks Into Detention

Wife’s Requests for Charges and Medical Examination Go Unanswered After more than two weeks in detention, Iranian-British social anthropologist Kameel Ahmady has ...

August 28, 2019

Journalist Sentenced to 10.5 Years Imprisonment for Covering Labor Day Rally

Four months after being arrested while covering a Labor Day protest, Journalist Marzieh Amiri has been sentenced to 10.5 years in prison and 148 lashes by ...

August 27, 2019