Mojgan Keshavarz has been sentenced to 23.6 years in prison while Monireh Arabshahi and her daughter Yasaman Ariyani have each been sentenced to 16 years in prison for peacefully campaigning against Iran’s mandatory ...
Imprisoned Swedish-Iranian scientist Ahmadreza Djalali was transferred from Evin Prison’s Ward 7 to an undisclosed location on July 29, 2019, his wife, Vida Mehrannia, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on August 2. “Ahmadreza contacted his family on Tuesday morning [July 30] and ...
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 a senior judicial official in Iran, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, in which ...
Amirhossein Mohammadifar and his wife Sanaz Allahyari, also a journalist, began a hunger strike on July 3, 2019, to protest their prolonged detention. The health of Amirhossein Mohammadifar, ...
"Sepideh is Very Weak and Fragile and Cannot Walk," Says Father Activist and freelance journalist Sepideh Qoliyan (also known as Gholian) lost consciousness in her cell on July 27, 2019, while on hunger strike, ...
“We have to pay a price, and every person will pay some price,” says acclaimed filmmaker July 24, 2019 – The sentencing of award-winning filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof to one year in prison for the content of his films has highlighted the perilous political landscape independent artists must navigate ...
Mohammad Nazari Has Been Imprisoned Since 1994 Imprisoned for more than 25 years, Kurdish-Iranian political prisoner Mohammad Nazari has been denied hospitalization to receive tests for a tumor in his stomach, his ...
From left to right: Marzieh Amiri, Atefeh Rangriz, Neda Naji, and Anisha Asadollahi. Four women ...
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 supreme leader” and “propaganda against the state,” Daemi’s mother informed ...
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 director, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has ...
In an open letter calling on the people of Iran to support their demands, six political prisoners in Ward 4 of Tehran’s Evin Prison have announced that they’ve gone on hunger strike to protest the judiciary’s treatment of political prisoners. The undated letter was posted July ...
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, Only Met Appointed Lawyer Once Calls on Chief Justice to ...
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 Khomeini Hospital in Tehran since July 15, 2019, according to ...
Iranian-born French scholar Fariba Adelkhah has been detained in Iran since June 2019. Fariba Adelkhah Among at Least Eight Other Jailed Iranians With Foreign Residencies While confirming reports that Iranian-born French scholar Fariba Adelkhah is currently detained in Iran, ...
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 Prison to convince the authorities to allow them to post ...
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 the Iranian government our deep concerns about the physical and ...
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 of violent crimes, two prison officials have been fired while ...
Iran’s judiciary has violated at least seven laws in its handling of the cases of eight wildlife conservationists who’ve been detained on unfounded espionage charges since January 2017, according to the ...
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 Mohammadi has written a letter thanking Richard Ratcliffe for highlighting ...
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 Science, Research and Technology Mansour Gholami. Amiri, a reporter for the ...
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 who’ve been detained in recent months in connection with protests ...
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 barriers they’d put up behind him and started sanding ...
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 condemning the imprisonment of a councilman after he publicly denounced ...
Alireza Shirmohammadali Was Unlawfully Held in Ward With Inmates Convicted of Dangerous Crimes He Had Gone on Hunger Strike Against Unsafe Prison Conditions Three Months Before His Death The 21-Year-Old Was Expecting ...
Sanaz Allahyari has Been Without Counsel for Five Months Family Barred from Sending Letter Appeal to Parliament Imprisoned journalist Sanaz Allahyari has been denied hospitalization despite suffering from worsening health problems in Tehran’s ...