Currently Imprisoned

May 2, 2016

Imprisoned Teacher Begins Hunger Strike to Protest Years Behind Bars for Peaceful Union Activities

Mahmoud Beheshti Langroudi, a teacher and activist who was sentenced to five years in prison and an additional four-year suspended prison sentence ...

April 29, 2016

Revolutionary Guards Going after Family Members of Iranian Journalists Living Abroad

Brother of Journalist Sentenced to Five Years in Prison In a long-established practice of targeting the family members of Iranian journalists ...

April 27, 2016

Journalists in Iran Slapped with Long Prison Sentences

Three journalists and the brother of a journalist have been given prison sentences ranging from five to ten years after spending months in detention, the lawyer ...

April 26, 2016

Prominent Human Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi Goes on Trial Behind Closed Doors

The trial of human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, postponed four times since its original date of May 3, 2015, finally began on ...

April 26, 2016

Bus Drivers’ Union Leader Awaiting Sentencing for Peaceful Labor Activism

Ebrahim Maddadi, a labor activist and leading member of Tehran’s bus drivers’ union, is awaiting sentencing after standing trial on April 16, 2016. Arrested ...

April 26, 2016

After Losing Kidney to Cancer, Imprisoned Physicist Must Be Treated for Other Illnesses

Omid Kokabee Could Lose His Life After Years of Denied Medical Care in Iran Prison Omid Kokabee, the young physicist who was imprisoned ...

April 26, 2016

Young Female Artist’s Prison Sentence Reduced on Appeal, Could Soon Go Free

Prisoner of conscience Atena Faraghdani’s sentence has been reduced on appeal from 12 years and nine months ...

April 22, 2016

Mehdi Karroubi: Despite Five Years of House Arrest, He Continues to Speak Out against Abuse of Power in Iran

Former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who has been living under extrajudicial house arrest for over five years for contesting the result of Iran’s widely ...

April 21, 2016

Imprisoned Physicist Loses Kidney to Cancer, Must Be Released Permanently

Omid Kokabee’s Life Endangered by Years of Denied Medical Care in Iran Prison April 21, 2016—Omid Kokabee, the young physicist who has been ...

April 18, 2016

Imprisoned Young Physicist Stricken with Cancer after Years of Denied Medical Care

April 18, 2016—Prisoner of conscience Omid Kokabee, the young physicist who has been imprisoned in Iran for over five years for his refusal to work ...

April 15, 2016

Hunger Striker in Critical Condition Vows to Continue Strike

Political Prisoner Protests His Imprisonment and Denial of Medical Care Prisoner of conscience Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, who ...

April 11, 2016

Voices from Iran: What are your expectations of President Rouhani?

In this new video, the Campaign asks Iranians from all walks of life inside and outside Iran to share their hopes and expectations of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani for ...

April 11, 2016

Journalist Afarin Chitsaz Held Incommunicado at Evin Prison for Five Months

Status of Case and Charges against Her Remain Unknown Concern is growing for the well-being of newspaper columnist Afarin ...

April 1, 2016

Iranian Political Prisoner Goes on Hunger Strike To Protest Denial of Health Care

Prisoner of conscience Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been on a wet hunger strike since March 26, 2016 ...

March 28, 2016

Canadian Resident Sentenced to Three Years in Jail Shortly After Returning to Iran

Political prisoner Mostafa Azizi, one of many émigrés who returned to Iran following assurances ...

March 27, 2016

Iranian Judiciary Took No Action despite Formal Complaint Detailing Torture of Baha’is in Prison

Letter Comes To Light Three Years after Brutal Physical Abuse of Detained Baha’is Details of torture inflicted upon twelve Baha’is by ...

March 23, 2016

Prominent Iranian Journalist Remains Hospitalized After Delayed Health Care

Severe health problems are keeping prisoner of conscience Issa Saharkhiz, a prominent reformist journalist, under observation in ...

March 18, 2016

In Bid to Save Ailing Son, Political Prisoner’s Father Threatens Hunger Strike

The father of ailing political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi Maleki will launch a hunger strike in front of the Tehran prosecutor’s office unless steps ...

March 10, 2016

Imprisoned Reformist Iranian Journalist Hospitalized After Prolonged Hunger Strike

Issa Saharkhiz, imprisoned reformist journalist and former political prisoner, was hospitalized on March 9, 2016 due to life-threatening health deterioration from successive hunger strikes. ...

March 3, 2016

Iranian Activist Receives Six-Month Prison Sentence for Facebook Posts

The civil rights activist Esmail Ahmadi-Ragheb has been sentenced to six months in prison for “propaganda against the state” by Branch 1 of the ...

March 3, 2016

Pro-Rouhani Political Prisoner Urged Iranians to Vote in 2016 Elections

“Now President Rouhani should carry out his promise of two years ago to free political prisoners.” The mother of a young man believed to be ...

February 24, 2016

Iranian Teacher’s Union Leader Sentenced to Six Years in Prison

The secretary general of the Teachers Association of Iran, Esmail Abdi, has been sentenced to six years in prison ...

February 24, 2016

Prominent Reformist Journalist Protests Solitary Confinement with Third Hunger Strike

The imprisoned political journalist Issa Saharkhiz has resumed his hunger strike after being placed in solitary confinement on February ...

February 23, 2016

Imprisoned Iranian-American Siamak Namazi Held Incommunicado without Access to Lawyer

Namazi Reportedly on Hunger Strike at Evin Now Siamak Namazi, the Iranian-American businessman who was arrested in October while visiting family in Tehran, ...

February 18, 2016