Lawyer “Worried” About Detained Iranian Protesters After Officials Claim Two Committed Suicide
A lawyer representing the families of two detainees who died in custody in Iran ...
Prisoners of Conscience
January 22, 2018
Iranian Protesters Who Died in Custody Accused of Being Drug Addicts
Iranian officials have accused two Iranian protesters who died in custody of committing suicide and of being drug addicts. But a prominent human rights lawyer and a reformist MP from ...
January 22, 2018
Death Sentence Against Swedish Resident Ahmadreza Djalali Under Review
Branch 33 of the Supreme Court in Iran is reviewing the death sentence issued to Ahmadreza ...
January 19, 2018
Second Name Revealed in Shooting Deaths Amid Sanandaj Protests
Intelligence Ministry Pressures Families To Refuse Media Interviews Kianoosh Zandi, 24, has been named the second victim in a shooting case ...
January 18, 2018
Detained Iranian Protesters Told to Admit Being Drug Addicts to Speed Up Release
Vahid Heydari (right) and Sina Ghanbari were killed in ...
January 16, 2018
Intelligence Ministry Forces Father of Slain Protester to Repeat Authorities’ Version of Events on State TV
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry coerced the father of a dead protester into claiming in front of a camera that his son ...
January 16, 2018
Tehran Prosecutor: “No Discussion” About Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Release Date
Two day after a former senior British politician expressed ...
January 12, 2018
Intelligence Ministry Agents Intimidate Family of Slain Farmer Killed at Protest
Nematollah Shafiei was a bystander who was shot and killed during protests in Qahderijan, Isfahan Province, on ...
January 12, 2018
President Rouhani Changes Course and Acknowledges Protesters’ Varied Reasons For Discontent
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani struck a more conciliatory tone in reacting for the second time to a wave of protests that ...
January 12, 2018
Iran’s Supreme Leader Condemns Protests as “Devilish Fireworks”
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has condemned the country’s recent nationwide protests as “devilish fireworks” organized by the United States, Israel, regional Arab states and Iranian counter-revolutionaries. “Their intention was to stir things up ...
January 11, 2018
Local Officials in Iranian City Dezful Attempt to Deflect Responsibility for Protesters’ Death
A protester died from a bullet wound during a protest in the city of Dezful despite a local official’s claim that “this man’s ...
January 10, 2018
Iranian Human Rights Organizations File Motion in Germany Against Ayatollah Shahroudi for Crimes Against Humanity
A coalition of Iranian human rights NGOs including Centre for Defenders of Human Rights, Centre for Human Rights in Iran, Impact Iran, Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre, Justice for Iran, and the Siamak Pourzand Foundation, ...
January 9, 2018
Iran Protests: Authorities Keeping Families of Detained Gonabadi Dervishes in the Dark
Relatives Sleeping Outside Evin Prison Demanding Answers The families of several members of a Muslim Sufi order in Iran known as the ...
January 5, 2018
Iranian Security Forces Have Arrested More Than 40 University Students. These Are Their Names.
Intelligence Ministry Pressures Families to Avoid Interviews More than 40 Iranian university students, mostly activists, were arrested between December 30, 2017, and January 4, ...
January 5, 2018
Iranian Protesters’ Relatives Threatened With Arrest For Holding Sit-In at Evin Prison
“We will not go anywhere until we get some news about our kids.” The families of protesters detained during the anti-government protests that began in Iran on December 28, 2017, have been threatened with arrest for holding a sit-in at Evin Prison ...
January 5, 2018
Reformist MP Enquires About Students Detained in Iranian Protests
Four Sufi Gonabadi Dervishes Detained Without Charge A member of the reformist women’s faction in Iran’s Parliament has publicly enquired about ...
January 5, 2018
Iran Executes 19-Year-Old Charged as Juvenile in Violation of Two International Treaties
Ignoring pleas by international organizations and in violation of two international treaties, Iran ...
January 5, 2018
Imprisoned Baha’i Teacher Told to Repent in Exchange for Furlough
The authorities of Evin Prison have told imprisoned Baha’i educator ...
January 3, 2018
22 Killed and Hundreds Arrested as Iran’s Supreme Leader Blames Protests on Foreign “Enemies”
As details emerged about the number of casualties and arrests that occurred during the first six days of the ...
January 2, 2018
Iran’s Government Must End the Violence and Allow Peaceful Protest
January 2, 2018—The Iranian government and state security forces should immediately end their violent crackdown on the nationwide protests that have so far led to the deaths ...
January 2, 2018
Casualties and Arrests Mount As Iranian Protests Continue
At least 21 people have been killed and hundreds arrested since a wave of protests hit several Iranian cities on December ...
December 30, 2017
Poet to Serve Two Years in Prison For Criticizing Iran’s Supreme Leader
Editor's Note: Mahdavifar’s two-year prison sentence was upheld by an Appeals Court on July 3, 2018. Poet Mohammad Mahdavifar has been ...
December 30, 2017
Political Prisoner Majid Assadi Denied Hospitalization in Rajaee Shahr Prison
Political prisoner Majid Assadi is being denied urgent hospitalization despite severe pain in his spine and digestive problems, ...
December 28, 2017
Ahmadreza Djalali’s Wife: My Husband Was “Framed” For Refusing to Spy for Iran
The wife of an Iranian-born Swedish resident sentenced to death in Iran on espionage charges has denied ...
December 26, 2017
Independent Iranian Journalist Facing Prosecution For Criticizing Powerful Politician
Detained after criticizing a powerful local lawmaker, Sina Ghalandari, an independent journalist based in the city of Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, has been released on ...