Seven Years Later No Official Held Accountable for 5 Deaths and Torture of Dozens at Kahrizak
Families of the detainees who died after they were tortured in the Kahrizak Detention ...
Prisoners of Conscience
October 12, 2016
Woman Sentenced to 6 years in Prison for Unpublished Story and Facebook Posts Rejects Prison Summons
Co-Defendants Forced to Unexpectedly Begin Prison Sentences Four months after her husband was unexpectedly forced to begin serving his 19-year prison ...
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 an ...
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 ...
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 ...
October 3, 2016
Iran Says It Released Homa Hoodfar for “Humanitarian” Reasons
Other Ailing Dual Nationals Remain in Prison while Denied Due Process “I didn’t feel I would be released until ...
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
Union Leader: Less Pressure on Teachers Thanks to Rights Activists
Under Rouhani, “They have changed tactics from hard forms of pressure to milder ones.” The leader of Iran’s largest teachers’ rights organization has said that due to pressure from civil rights ...
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 22, 2016
Kahrizak Torture Victim Rejects Prosecutor’s Apology for Detainees’ Deaths
“Amir Javadifar died beside me as he was begging for water. I can never forget those moments.” Reza Zoghi, who was tortured at the Kahrizak Detention Center in south Tehran ...
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 13, 2016
Hospitalized Christian Convert Ordered Back to Prison
Imprisoned Christian convert Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran, who has been hospitalized since August 21, 2016 for heart problems, ...
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 9, 2016
Journalist’s Prison Sentence Reduced to Two Years, with Two-Year Ban on Reporting
The 10-year prison sentence of newspaper columnist Afarin Chitsaz has been reduced to two years on appeal and she has been banned from ...
September 7, 2016
More Than 100 Prominent Iranians Ask UN to Declare 1988 Massacre “Crime Against Humanity”
This article has been updated on September 12, 2016 to reflect the correct number of original signatories. In a letter to the United Nations Human ...
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 ...