Currently Imprisoned

August 22, 2017

Judiciary Contradicts Rouhani Officials’ Promise to Detained Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi

The spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, has publicly rejected a report that security agents will leave detained ...

August 21, 2017

Reformist Journalist Not Heard From Two Weeks After Arrest in Tehran

Several Journalists Arrested in 2017 for Alleged Connections With Amad News Reformist journalist Sasan Aghaei’s family has not heard a word from him since he ...

August 21, 2017

Appeals Court Upholds 10-Year Sentence Against Princeton Student Xiyue Wang

An Iranian Appeals Court has upheld the 10-year prison sentence against American graduate student Xiyue Wang, held since the summer of 2016 ...

August 18, 2017

Countdown Begins for Karroubi’s Trial After Deal With Rouhani Government Ends His Hunger Strike

Now that detained political leader Mehdi Karroubi has ended his life-threatening hunger strike, all eyes are on President Hassan Rouhani to see if ...

August 17, 2017

Imprisoned Activist Atena Daemi Slapped With New Charge For Demanding Medical Care

Activist Denied Care Despite Medical Examiner’s Recommendation Already serving a seven-year prison sentence, imprisoned children’s rights activist ...

August 17, 2017

Richard Ratcliffe Turns to UN and UK to Secure Wife’s Release From Iran

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Diagnosed With Advanced Depression After exhausting all legal avenues in Iran to overturn the five-year prison sentence issued in a secret trial ...

August 17, 2017

Music Producer Quarantined and Denied Family Contact for Arguing With Evin Prison Guard

Yousef Emadi Facing New Charge Imprisoned music producer Yousef Emadi was punished for three weeks by being moved to a quarantine ward ...

August 16, 2017

Six Inmates at Rajaee Shahr Prison Punished With Solitary Confinement For Going on Hunger Strike

Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj. Prisoners Protest Transfer to High-Security ...

August 16, 2017

Detained Political Leader Mehdi Karroubi on Life-Threatening Hunger Strike

August 16, 2017—The Iranian judiciary must immediately release ailing political leaders Mehdi Karroubi, who is currently on hunger strike, Mir Hossein Mousavi and ...

August 16, 2017

Editor of Prominent Iranian Reformist Newspaper Etemad Arrested for Fourth Time

Journalist Sasan Aghaei Repeatedly Targeted by Security Organizations The arrest of Sasan Aghaei, the deputy editor of the reformist daily newspaper ...

August 14, 2017

Political Prisoner Responds to “Dolled-Up” Evin Prison Visit by Foreign Ambassadors

A political prisoner held in Evin Prison since 2009 has harshly criticized a state-organized “dolled-up” ...

August 11, 2017

Iranian Imprisoned Spiritual Leader Awaiting New Verdict While IRGC Arrests His Followers

Followers of imprisoned Iranian spiritual leader Mohammad Ali Taheri are being arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary ...

August 11, 2017

Reformist MPs Form Committee to End House Arrests After Karroubi’s Hospitalization

Reformist members of Iran’s Parliament have established the Committee to Seek an End to House Arrests ...

August 8, 2017

Azeri Man Facing Prison Time for Peacefully Advocating Ethnic Language Rights in Iran

Facing prison time for his peaceful advocacy of Azeri ethnic rights, Asgar Akbarzadeh has been summoned to the ...

August 8, 2017

Labor Activist Describes Torture and Inhumane Living Conditions at Iran’s Largest Prison

Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) Teachers rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi...

August 4, 2017

Families in the Dark as Prisoners at Rajaee Shahr Illegally Moved to High-Security Ward

Rajaee Shahr Prison The sudden transfer of dozens of political prisoners in ...

August 4, 2017

Political Prisoner in Solitary Confinement for Hunger Striking Against Wife’s Detention

Soheil Arabi with his wife and daughter. Political prisoner Soheil Arabi, serving a seven-year prison sentence ...

August 4, 2017

Year-Long Legal Limbo of Swedish Resident Imprisoned in Iran Continues After Judge Calls in Sick

Swedish Embassy Staffers Waited in Courthouse The long-awaited trial of Iranian-born Swedish permanent resident Ahmadreza Djalali, imprisoned in Iran on unspecified ...

August 4, 2017

Some Detained Reformist Telegram Channel Admins Released on Bail Until Trial

CHRI obtained an Instagram photo showing the minister posing ...

August 2, 2017

Iran Should Immediately Release Critically Ill Opposition Leaders Under House Arrest

Karroubi and Mousavi’s Health in Peril After Six Years of Forced Isolation August 2, 2017—More than six years into their extrajudicial house arrest, the health ...

August 2, 2017

Teachers’ Rights Leader Returned to Prison Despite Judicial Official’s Furlough Pledge

Esmail Abdi’s Six-Year Sentence Influenced by IRGC The former secretary general of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association ...

August 1, 2017

Prominent Activists Defy State Ban on Visiting Hospitalized Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi

From right to ...

August 1, 2017

Family, US Congress Convince Imprisoned US Permanent Resident to End Hunger Strike in Iran

Nizar Zakka “Under Intense Torture and Pressure” A Lebanese-born US permanent resident who was sentenced in September 2016 to 10 years imprisonment in Iran ended his ...

August 1, 2017