Mother Puts All Hope in Appeals Court to Free Son
“How can a young man who worked hard for Rouhani’s presidential campaign, ‘wage propaganda’ and ‘act against the state’?” That is the ...
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December 10, 2015
Arrested Journalists Held Incommunicado for Over a Month while Officials Make Baseless Claims
More than a month after his arrest, the prominent reformist journalist Issa Saharkhiz has not contacted his family and judicial authorities have not commented ...
December 8, 2015
Students Plead with Rouhani to Release Political Prisoners
President Hassan Rouhani and other senior government officials were met with students expressing frustration over the continuing repression in Iran and demanding the release of ...
December 4, 2015
Ninety Journalists Call for Release of Four Arrested Colleagues
Ninety Iranian journalists have signed a statement calling for the release of four of their colleagues arrested a month ago by Iran’s Revolutionary ...
December 1, 2015
Five Prison Inmates on Hunger Strike to Protest Knife Attack against Two Political Prisoners
Prison Officials Refuse to Remove Attackers from Ward Two political prisoners, Saeed Madani and ...
December 1, 2015
Imprisoned Children’s Rights Activist Denied Bail
Saeed Shirzad Saeed Shirzad, a children’s rights activist sentenced to five years in prison, has been ...
November 30, 2015
Untreated Kidney Stones Sends Imprisoned Physicist Omid Kokabee to Hospital
Imprisoned physicist Omid Kokabee was transferred to Taleghani Hospital in Tehran on November 24, 2015, suffering from severe kidney stones, a source told ...
November 25, 2015
Political Prisoner’s Health Deteriorating as His Hunger Strike Enters Fourth Week
The political prisoner Majid Azarpey is in extremely poor health since beginning a wet hunger strike (refusing solid foods) in Evin Prison on ...
November 19, 2015
Largest Wave of Arrests by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Since 2009
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November 18, 2015
Journalist Sentenced to Three Years in Prison for Her Facebook Posts
Solmaz Ikdar The journalist Solmaz Ikdar has been sentenced to three years in prison for “insulting ...
November 17, 2015
Prisoner of Conscience on Hunger Strike Transferred to Clinic as His Condition Worsens
Fourteen days after prisoner of conscience Ali Shariati embarked on a hunger strike to protest the judicial process of his case, he remains on strike ...
November 16, 2015
Prominent Cartoonist Hadi Heidari Arrested
Hadi Heidari’s last cartoon was related to ...
November 8, 2015
Prominent Reformist Journalist Arrested for “Insulting Supreme Leader”
The political journalist Issa Saharkhiz has been arrested on charges of “intending to disrupt national security,” “propaganda against the state,” and ...
November 2, 2015
Washington Post OpEd: Free Omid Kokabee, another Iranian prisoner of conscience
By Herbert L. Berk October 30 Herbert ...
October 30, 2015
Revolutionary Guards Treat Protesting Teachers as Agitators, Lawyer Says
Peyman Haj-Mahmoud Attar, the lawyer for the Teachers ...
October 27, 2015
Arrested Student Activist Under Intense Pressure to Make False Confession, Says Family
Amin Anvari’s mother, Farah Bakhshi Student activist Amin Anvari, 21, who received a suspended prison ...
October 19, 2015
Narges Mohammadi Should Be Released Immediately and Given Medical Treatment
Narges Mohammadi October 20, 2015—The health of imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi has deteriorated, and the prominent human rights ...
October 15, 2015
Imprisoned Spiritual Leader on Hunger Strike Has Become “Like a Skeleton”
The family of Mohammad Ali Taheri, the imprisoned leader of a peaceful spiritual group, is alarmed by his deteriorating health after his two month-long hunger ...
October 12, 2015
Imprisoned TV Producer Suffering from Untreated Shingles Disorder
Mostafa Azizi, Television Writer and Producer Another Case of Denial of Adequate Medical Care ...
October 12, 2015
Washington Post Reporter Jason Rezaian Convicted on Baseless Charges
October 12, 2015—Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post correspondent imprisoned in Iran since July 22, 2014, has been convicted by a Tehran court in a prosecution ...
October 9, 2015
Court to Issue Decision on Faraghdani’s “Illegal” Handshake with Her Lawyer
Atena Faraghdani The imprisoned artist and civil activist Atena Faraghdani will soon learn the verdict in the ...
October 9, 2015
Authorities Deny Hospitalization for Ill Activist and Postpone Her Trial Again
Narges Mohammadi No Explanation Given for Third Postponement of Narges Mohammadi’s Trial Date The trial of imprisoned human rights ...
October 6, 2015
Case against Rezaian Will Be Built on Little More than Forced “Confession”
Iranian Judiciary Has Long History of Relying on False “Confessions” Extracted Under Duress October 6, 2015—Two months after the end of the trial of Washington Post ...
October 6, 2015
Supreme Court Refuses to Grant Imprisoned Activist a Retrial
Saeed Madani The political activist and university professor Saeed Madani, imprisoned in Iran since January 2012 for his ...
October 1, 2015
Sister of Saeed Malekpour Says Family Hopes for a Pardon for Imprisoned Web Developer
Saeed Malekpour Prisoner of Conscience, Serving Life Sentence, is Finally Allowed In-Person Family Visits after a Year Prisoner of ...