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Prisoners of Conscience

May 16, 2016

Imprisoned Spiritual Leader Slapped with New Charges Upon Completing Sentence

Mohammad Ali Taheri, an imprisoned spiritual leader who was supposed to be freed more than two months ago after ...

May 12, 2016

Imprisoned Teacher on Hunger Strike Sent Home After Hospitalization

The imprisoned teachers’ union activist, Mahmoud Beheshti Langroudi, has been released from hospital and sent home after a 22-day hunger strike. ...

May 10, 2016

Husband of Iranian-British Citizen Held in Iran Calls Her Detainment “Outrageous” and “Cruel”

“I have no idea how a young woman with a baby could be a danger to national security.” The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen who has ...

May 10, 2016

Iranian Political Prisoners Turn to Life-Threatening Hunger Strikes to Protest Unjust Sentences

Teacher’s Rights Activist Hospitalized The imprisoned spokesman of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association, Mahmoud Beheshti ...

May 6, 2016

Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer’s Daughter: Help My Father Before It’s Too Late

Abdolfattah Soltani’s Condition Deteriorates; Needs Urgent Hospitalization Abdolfattah Soltani, an imprisoned human rights lawyer, requires ...

May 4, 2016

Young Artist Who Lampooned Iranian MPs Released From Prison

Atena Faraghdani Served 18 Months for Her Facebook Cartoons Artist and civil rights activist Atena Faraghdani ...

May 4, 2016

Teacher’s Union Leader Conditionally Released on Parole

Teacher’s rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi, who was imprisoned in Iran for six years for his peaceful labor activism, was ...

May 2, 2016

Female Journalist, Sentenced to Ten Years, Beaten in Iran Prison

Mother of Afarin Chitsaz’s Describes Brutality Aimed at Forcing a “Confession” The mother of imprisoned newspaper columnist ...

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 ...

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 ...

April 28, 2016

Four Iranian Rights Activists Summoned to Appear Together at Appeals Court

Rights activists Omid Alishenas, Atena Daemi, Ali Nouri and Aso Rostami have ...

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, ...

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