Currently Imprisoned

December 3, 2018

IRGC-Affiliated Media Report Dual National Among Group of Researchers Arrested in Iran

An unknown number of university academics, including a dual national, who allegedly researched state population policies have ...

November 30, 2018

Prominent Attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh Facing Additional Charge For Defending Human Rights

Sotoudeh Now Facing 5-Year Sentence, 4 Additional Charges Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been slapped with an additional ...

November 29, 2018

Prominent Imprisoned Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Hunger Strikes For Fellow Prisoner Farhad Meysami

Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh started a second hunger strike on November 26, 2018, to protest the Iranian authorities’ ...

November 21, 2018

Second Peaceful Teachers’ Strike in Iran Met With Arrests, Summons and Threats

Iranian security and judicial authorities responded to the second round of peaceful teachers' rights strikes by arresting and summoning alleged ...

November 19, 2018

Iranian Police Relocate Buried Corpse of Baha’i Woman Without Family’s Permission

Iranian authorities have relocated the buried corpse of a deceased member of the Baha’i faith to a different cemetery without the ...

November 19, 2018

Steel and Sugarcane Workers Rally in Ahvaz to Demand Unpaid Wages

Workers from the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (NSIG) in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, held rallies November 10-14, 2018, demanding ...

November 14, 2018

Iran’s Execution of Two Traders Convicted in Iran’s New Corruption Courts Is Unlawful

Vahid Mazloumin and Mohammad Esmail Ghassem Both Hanged at Dawn Despite Denials of Due Process and the Right ...

November 12, 2018

Attorney Must Be Released from Prison in Iran While Case is Under Appeal

Mohammad Najafi May Also Be Flogged Despite Health Concerns November 12, 2018—The attorney Mohammad Najafi is being imprisoned unlawfully while his ...

November 7, 2018

Masoud Kazemi is the Second Journalist to Be Arrested in Tehran Within Two Weeks

Unidentified security agents detained journalist Masoud Kazemi in Tehran on November 5, 2018, making him the second known case of ...

November 7, 2018

Iran’s Corruption Courts Handing Out Death Sentences While Trampling on Rights to a Fair Trial

Five Death Sentence Issued in Preliminary Rulings, Two Upheld by Supreme Court November 7, 2018—Special courts set up by Iran’s judiciary and approved by ...

November 6, 2018

Forced Psychiatric Hospitalization Cannot Become New Means of Silencing Dissent in Iran

*Editor's Update: Teachers’ rights activist HashemKhastar was released November 10, 2018, from the psychiatric facility in Mashhad where he had been ...

November 5, 2018

“Cookie Distribution,” Other Peaceful Activities Get Elderly Tehran Bus Driver 5+ Years in Prison

Tehran-based trade ...

November 2, 2018

Sufi Prisoners Illegally Being Held With Dangerous Inmates in Tehran Penitentiary, Say Families

Dozens of Sufi prisoners are being illegally held in a ward for drug-addicted prisoners in the ...

October 31, 2018

Iranian Journalist Could Face Death Penalty For Allegedly “Insulting” Shia Prophet

Pouyan Khoshhal Fired From Reformist Ebtekar Newspaper Iranian journalist Pouyan Khoshhal has been arrested in Tehran and charged with a crime that could carry the death ...

October 31, 2018

15 HEPCO Workers in Iran Issued Suspended Prison, Lashing Sentences For Demanding Unpaid Wages

Fifteen staff members of the HEPCO manufacturing company in Markazi Province, Iran, have been issued suspended ...

October 30, 2018

Iran Must Stop Imprisoning Lawyers for Defending Their Clients

Mohammad Najafi is the Seventh Attorney to Be Sent to Prison in Last Six Months, Six Remain Behind Bars October 30, 2018—Iran’s sentencing of attorney ...

October 29, 2018

Lawyer Who Sought Justice for Death of Detainee in Iranian Custody Sentenced to Three Years, 74 Lashes

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October 29, 2018

Why Was Teachers’ Rights Activist Hashem Khastar Sent to a Mental Hospital With No Signs of Illness?

Khastar Was Tending to a Garden When “Plainclothes” Agents Arrested Him *Editor's Update: Teachers’ rights activist HashemKhastar was released November 10, 2018, from the psychiatric facility in Mashhad where ...

October 26, 2018

Iran’s Judiciary Should Release Ailing Prisoner Saeed Malekpour on Medical Grounds

Imprisoned in Iran's Evin Prison since 2008, Canadian permanent resident Saeed Malekpour was hospitalized for a "heart ...

October 26, 2018

Iran Authorities Won’t Explain Why Teachers’ Rights Activist is Being Held Incommunicado in Mental Hospital

Iranian authorities have refused to allow the family of a teacher’s rights activist any access to him or provide them with any information ...

October 23, 2018

Iran Charges Environmentalists With National Security Crimes

Prosecutions Lacking Due Process Aimed at Deflecting Attention from Death of One of the Detainees October 23, 2018 – Nine months after a group of ...

October 19, 2018

Farhad Meysami’s “Life Is In Danger” Two Months Into Debilitating Hunger Strike

"He has been tied to the bed and injected with serum." Imprisoned rights activist Reza Khandan has warned Iranian authorities that another fellow political ...

October 19, 2018