Currently Imprisoned

February 15, 2017

Intelligence Ministry Violently Arrests Teenage Ethnic Arab Activist in Khuzestan

Ali Kab-Aomair, a 17-year-old ethnic Arab activist, has been held incommunicado since he was violently arrested on February 8, 2017 by agents of ...

February 6, 2017

Ailing Political Prisoner Imprisoned for Facebook Posts Denied Medical Care

Soheil Arabi, who is currently serving a seven-and-a-half year prison sentence for the content of his social media posts, ...

February 6, 2017

In Iran, From Prison to Exile for Posting Jokes on Facebook

After completing a five-year prison sentence in Iran for posting jokes about religion on Facebook, the Judiciary has sent Soheil Babadi...

February 6, 2017

Intelligence Ministry Cracks Down on Alleged “Anti-Revolutionary” Telegram Channels

A screenshot of the heavily edited alleged ...

February 6, 2017

Judge Salavati Threatens Iranian-Born Swedish Resident With Death Penalty On Day One of Trial

Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been detained in Tehran without due process since April 2016, was threatened ...

February 2, 2017

Editor Detained by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Pleads for Help From Evin Prison

Tahereh Riahi, the social affairs editor of the state-funded Borna News Agency, who has been detained by ...

February 1, 2017

Iranian-Dutch Dual National and Dissident Imprisoned in Tehran Denied Medical Care

Update: Sabri Hassanpour was released in April 2018. The officials of Evin Prison are denying Sabri Hassanpour, an Iranian-born citizen of ...

January 25, 2017

Rouhani Must Act Against Imprisonment of Dual Nationals

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Husband Writes Direct Plea to Rouhani January 25, 2017–The Iranian Judiciary’s recent upholding ...

January 23, 2017

Ailing British-Iranian Grandpa Serving 7-Year Prison Sentence Denied Medical Leave

Kamal Foroughi, a 77-year-old ailing British-Iranian dual citizen and former civil engineer incarcerated at Evin Prison in Tehran since May 2011, ...

January 19, 2017

Award-Winning Kurdish Filmmaker Denied Urgent Hospitalization by Evin Prison Authorities

The authorities of Evin Prison in Tehran are refusing to transfer imprisoned filmmaker Keyvan Karimi to a hospital outside the prison ...

January 19, 2017

Court Rejects Some New Charges by Revolutionary Guards Against Activist Sentenced to 7 Years In Prison

Atena Daemi and Family Still Face Legal Persecution Three of the five new charges brought against imprisoned civil rights advocate Atena Daemi by the ...

January 19, 2017

Saeed Shirzad Ends Hunger Strike After Officials Pledge to End Rights Abuses at Rajaee Shahr Prison

An informed source close to imprisoned civil rights activist Saeed Shirzad said Shirzad ended his hunger strike ...

January 19, 2017

Ailing Political Prisoner Issa Saharkhiz on Hunger Strike Against Additional Six-Month Sentence

Imprisoned political commentator Issa Saharkhiz began a wet hunger strike on January 14, 2017 to protest a newly issued six-month ...

January 18, 2017

Judiciary Cites “Lost” Case Files in Denying Man Imprisoned for 23 Years Medical Care

Political prisoner Mohammad Nazari, imprisoned in Tehran for the past 23 years, has told the Campaign for Human Rights in ...

January 17, 2017

Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran Fear Reinstatement of Long-Term Visitations Ban

Political prisoners Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi, both ethnic Kurds on death row in Rajaee Shahr Prison ...

January 17, 2017

Khatami, Former Political Prisoners and Ailing Mother Convince Ali Shariati to End 75-Day Hunger Strike

Requests by prominent reformist leader Mohammad Khatami, political prisoners, and his ailing mother ultimately convinced imprisoned civil rights activist Ali Shariati to halt his hunger strike, after 75 days, ...

January 17, 2017

Revolutionary Guards Arrest Former Reformist MP’s Sister on Unspecified “Security Charges”

Fatemeh Haghighatjou, a former reformist member of Iran’s Parliament currently living in the United States, is desperately seeking information about her sister, Leila Haghighatjou, ...

January 14, 2017

Listen to Ailing Political Prisoner Saeed Shirzad “Before It’s Too Late,” Warns Lawyer

Saeed Shirzad ...

January 14, 2017

U.S. Resident Imprisoned in Iran “Punished” for Going on Hunger Strike

Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese-born U.S. permanent resident on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin Prison since December 8, 2016, ...

January 13, 2017

Revolutionary Guards Blocking Temporary Release of Canadian Resident Imprisoned in Iran

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are blocking the granted furlough (temporary release) request of Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian-born Canadian ...

January 13, 2017

Tehran Prosecutor Goes on the Defensive Over Hunger-Striking Political Prisoners

In an apparent response to growing pressure to resolve the issue, Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi has criticized media coverage of a ...

January 12, 2017

Activist Saeed Shirzad on Hunger Strike Against Poor Prison Conditions Hospitalized

Imprisoned children's rights activist Saeed Shirzad began his hunger strike in Rajaee Shahr Prison on December 17, 2016, the ...

January 12, 2017

Tehran University Invite Lands Iranian-Swedish Disaster Medicine Expert in Jail

Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident and expert in emergency disaster medicine who has been detained in Evin Prison without trial since April ...

January 12, 2017