Currently Imprisoned

October 11, 2016

Imprisoned Editor Hospitalized After 18-Day Hunger Strike

Open Letter Disproves Judicial Claim About Prisoners’ Rights Imprisoned newspaper editor Ehsan Mazandarani, who recently wrote ...

October 10, 2016

Former Political Prisoner Transported from Workplace to Prison Without Summons

Former political prisoner Navid Kamran has been transported to Evin Prison in Tehran to begin serving a one-year prison ...

October 5, 2016

Imprisoned Journalist Begins Hunger Strike on Hospital Bed

Hospitalized political prisoner and prominent reformist journalist Issa Saharkhiz began a hunger strike on October 2, 2016, to convince the authorities to grant him conditional release. “My father is legally eligible for conditional release ...

October 3, 2016

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Push Harsh Prison Sentences for Activists

Cases Expose Judiciary’s Lack of Independence In another example of the Iranian Judiciary’s lack of independence, an Appeals Court has upheld disproportionate ...

September 30, 2016

Imprisoned Journalist Denied Knee Operation

Pattern of Denied Medical Care Continues in Iranian Prisons Imprisoned newspaper columnist Afarin Chitsaz urgently needs a knee ...

September 29, 2016

Iranian Authorities Silent on Green Movement Campaign Worker Missing Since 2011

“None of the state agencies confirm or deny anything.” Alireza Piri, a dentist from Tabriz in northwestern Iran who campaigned for former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, has been missing since he ...

September 28, 2016

Upholding Narges Mohammadi’s 16-Year Prison Sentence is Indefensible

Mother of Two Young Children Will Be Eligible for Release Only After 10 Years September 28, 2016—The upholding of the 16-year prison sentence against human rights defender Narges Mohammadi ...

September 28, 2016

Iran Appeals Court Upholds 16-Year Prison Sentence Against Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi

Mother of Two Young Children Will Be Eligible for Release Only After 10 Years An Appeals Court has upheld the 16-year prison sentence ...

September 28, 2016

Iran’s Foreign Minister Says Judiciary is Responsible for Detained Dual Nationals

Zarif Hopes Their Situation Can Be "Resolved Amicably" Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said he hoped the situation of detained dual nationals in Iran could be “resolved amicably,” adding that the office of ...

September 28, 2016

Detained Editor Who Exposed Corruption Slapped with Additional Charge

Editor Yashar Soltani, who was initially charged with “spreading lies” after his website published unclassified information about illegal land sales by the Tehran Municipality, has also been charged ...

September 20, 2016

Ailing Reformist Journalist’s Prison Sentence Reduced

Additional Charge Against Issa Saharkhiz Remains Pending Prominent reformist journalist Issa Saharkhiz’s prison sentence has been reduced based on Article 134 of ...

September 20, 2016

Reformist Editor Arrested Ahead of Rouhani’s Trip to the United Nations

Sadra Mohaghegh, the social affairs editor of the reformist Shargh newspaper, was arrested on September 19, 2016, but the circumstances ...

September 19, 2016

On Hunger Strike, Imprisoned Music Distributors’ Health Deteriorates

Imprisoned music distributors Mehdi Rajabian and Hossein Rajabian are in poor health after starting a hunger strike ...

September 14, 2016

Twenty-Year Old On Death Row After “Confessing” on Promise of Freedom

Death Sentence for Posting “Anti-Islamic” Content on Social Media Sina Dehghan was just 19-years-old when the Revolutionary Guards told him, while ...

September 13, 2016

Translator in Prison for One Year Without Knowing Charges; Her Lawyer Denied Access to Case File

Translator Marjan Davari has been held in Evin Prison’s Women’s Ward for almost a year without knowing the formal ...

September 12, 2016

Five-Year Prison Sentence for Dual National Casts Shadow Over Iran’s Opening to World

Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe’s Sentence Announced Two Weeks Before Rouhani Comes to NY September 12, 2016—The five-year prison sentence for Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, a dual citizen of ...

September 5, 2016

Labor Activists Put on Trial After Hundreds of Workers Protest Unpaid Wages

Labor activists Jafar Azimzadeh and Shapour Ehsani-Rad have been put on ...

September 1, 2016

Iran’s Security Establishment is Targeting the Students of an Imprisoned Spiritual Leader

Vahid Pourtahmasb is the fifth student of Mohammad Ali Taheri to have been arrested since 2015. Another student of imprisoned spiritual group leader ...

September 1, 2016

Christians, Including Pastor’s Son, Arrested at Picnic Near Tehran

A Christian and four Christian converts were arrested on August 26, 2016 by the Intelligence Ministry near Tehran, the International Campaign for Human Rights ...

August 29, 2016

Judiciary Blocking Compensation for False Arrests

High Number of False Arrests Would Require Large Payout More than a year after Iran’s new Code of ...

August 22, 2016

Prominent Labor Activist’s Wife Awaits Verdict for Alleged Facebook Post

Najibeh Salehzadeh was never shown the “evidence” Najibeh Salehzadeh, who says she was falsely charged for posting “insulting” material on Facebook, ...

August 18, 2016

Reformist Journalist’s Prison Sentence Reduced on Appeal

The prison sentence of reformist journalist Ehsan (Saman) Safarzaei has been reduced from five to two years, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned. ...

August 16, 2016

Imprisoned Epileptic Journalist Denied Request for Early Release

Reformist Writer Has Not Had Access to His Lawyer Since 2014 Imprisoned reformist journalist Ahmad Asgari, who suffers from severe epilepsy, has been ...

August 16, 2016