Judicial Official’s Defense of Mass Executions Sets Dangerous Precedent
Senior Advisor to Judiciary Asks Why the State Should Be Concerned with “Legal Matters” Pourmohammadi: “We still haven’t settled scores” August 5, 2019—New remarks by ...
Senior Advisor to Judiciary Asks Why the State Should Be Concerned with “Legal Matters” Pourmohammadi: “We still haven’t settled scores” August 5, 2019—New remarks by ...
Amirhossein Mohammadifar and his wife Sanaz Allahyari, also a journalist, began a hunger strike on July 3, 2019, to ...
Nikan Khosravi and Arash Ilkhani, members of the Iranian heavy metal band Confess, have left Iran to escape prosecution and prison for their ...
"Sepideh is Very Weak and Fragile and Cannot Walk," Says Father Activist and freelance journalist Sepideh Qoliyan (also known as Gholian) lost consciousness in ...
Acclaimed director Mohammad Rasoulof was sentenced to one year in prison in Tehran in July 2019. He has ...
Mohammad Nazari Has Been Imprisoned Since 1994 Imprisoned for more than 25 years, Kurdish-Iranian political prisoner Mohammad Nazari has been denied hospitalization ...
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Atena Daemi Illegally Denied Visits Since March 2019 Political prisoners Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi have been told they must serve an additional 3.7 years in prison for the charges of “insulting the ...
Iranian Law Guarantees Prisoners Weekly Visits The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been denying Imprisoned Iranian-British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe all contact with the outside world since she was transferred to the ...
After refusing to break his hunger strike, prisoner of conscience Hossein Sepanta was transferred to the Intelligence Ministry’s wing inside Adelabad Prison in Shiraz, Fars Province, on July 10, 2019, on orders of the facility’s ...
Aras Amiri is Serving a 10-Year Prison Sentence Says She Was Imprisoned for Association with British Council Was Not Allowed to Use Chosen Lawyer, ...
Revolutionary Guards Blocking Outside Contact, Says Free Nazanin Campaign Imprisoned Iranian-British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held in the psychiatric ward of the Imam ...
Imprisoned journalists Amirhossein Mohammadifar and Sanaz Allahyari, a married couple, have been on a wet hunger strike since July 4, 2019, in Tehran’s Evin ...
UN Press Release, GENEVA (10 July 2019) – UN human rights experts today expressed serious concern that Iran continues to deny appropriate healthcare to detainees, despite repeated calls. “Over several months we have communicated to ...
Defense Attorney: Firing Prison Officials Won’t Keep Political Prisoners Safe One month after political prisoner Alireza Shirmohammadali was murdered in the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary (GTCP) after being unlawfully held in a ward with inmates convicted ...
Iran’s judiciary has violated at least seven laws in its handling of the cases of eight wildlife conservationists who’ve been detained on ...
Ratcliffe and His Wife Have Been on a Joint Hunger Strike for 11 Days and Counting Their Daughter Will Soon Have to Leave Iran to Start School in the UK Prominent political prisoner Narges ...
Thirty scholars and researchers at the University of Tehran have called for the release of detained reporter Marzieh Amiri in a letter addressing Minister of ...
A group of workers of the Hafteh Tappeh sugar mill company in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, published a list of 40 names of colleagues and supporters ...
Dual National Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Has Been Eligible for Release Since 2017 June 18, 2019 – On day four of Richard Ratcliffe’s hunger strike outside the Iranian embassy in London, embassy staff noisily repositioned the metal ...
Former Political Prisoners Condemn the Criminalization of Free Speech in Iran A group of prominent political and civil rights activists in Iran has issued a statement ...
Alireza Shirmohammadali Was Unlawfully Held in Ward With Inmates Convicted of Dangerous Crimes He Had Gone on Hunger Strike Against Unsafe Prison ...
Sanaz Allahyari has Been Without Counsel for Five Months Family Barred from Sending Letter Appeal to Parliament Imprisoned journalist Sanaz Allahyari has been ...
*A group of workers in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, have published an open letter calling on the International Labor Organization (ILO) to ...
Rights Activist Remains in Prison with Dangerous Post-Op Infection Husband Reports Mohammadi Is Being Denied Antibiotics June 7, 2019 – The Iranian authorities must immediately ...