Five Death Sentence Issued in Preliminary Rulings, Two Upheld by Supreme Court November 7, 2018—Special courts set up by Iran’s judiciary and approved by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in August 2018 to try individuals ...
*Editor's Update: Teachers’ rights activist HashemKhastar was released November 10, 2018, from the psychiatric facility in Mashhad where he had been illegally held since October 23. Teachers’ Rights Activist, Held Against His Will ...
Tehran-based trade union activists Ebrahim Madadi (right) and Davoud Razavi have both ...
Dozens of Sufi prisoners are being illegally held in a ward for drug-addicted prisoners in the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP), one of their relatives told ...
Shiraz City Council member Mehdi Hajati made national news in Iran after he was arrested for seeking the release of two Baha'is who were arrested for their faith, which is severely persecuted against in ...
Pouyan Khoshhal Fired From Reformist Ebtekar Newspaper Iranian journalist Pouyan Khoshhal has been arrested in Tehran and charged with a crime that could carry the death penalty for using the word “demise” instead of “martyrdom” while ...
Mohammad Najafi is the Seventh Attorney to Be Sent to Prison in Last Six Months, Six Remain Behind Bars October 30, 2018—Iran’s sentencing of attorney Mohammad Najafi to three years in prison and 74 ...
Khastar Was Tending to a Garden When “Plainclothes” Agents Arrested Him *Editor's Update: Teachers’ rights activist HashemKhastar was released November 10, 2018, from the psychiatric facility in Mashhad where he had been illegally held since October 23. Teachers’ ...
Imprisoned in Iran's Evin Prison since 2008, Canadian permanent resident Saeed Malekpour was hospitalized for a "heart attack" at the age of 43, according to his sister. Peaceful ...
Iranian authorities have refused to allow the family of a teacher’s rights activist any access to him or provide them with any information about his condition or case after he was arrested and ...
Prosecutions Lacking Due Process Aimed at Deflecting Attention from Death of One of the Detainees October 23, 2018 – Nine months after a group of environmentalists were imprisoned in Iran without any evidence of wrongdoing ...
"He has been tied to the bed and injected with serum." Imprisoned rights activist Reza Khandan has warned Iranian authorities that another fellow political prisoner could die if he is not allowed immediate medical ...
Security Forces Hijack Teachers’ Union Telegram Channel Four teachers who participated in a peaceful sit-in for teachers’ and education rights in Iran this week remain behind bars ...
Farhad Meysami, an imprisoned civil rights activist, has lost “40 pounds” since beginning a wet hunger strike in Evin Prison on August 1, 2018, the ...
Classes were cancelled in several cities across Iran this week as teachers demanded the ...
Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostad-Ghader Held at Intelligence Ministry’s Sanandaj Center Kurdish political prisoners Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostad-Ghader continue to be denied legal counsel and ...
It has been more than a month since the wife of a Sufi Gonabadi Dervish held in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) has heard from her husband after he ...
Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against a 25-year-old Kurdish auto mechanic on false charges, the mechanic’s lawyer told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Hedayat Abdollahpour was arrested in ...
Merchants and business owners went on strike in several Iranian cities on October 8, 2018, to protest against hyperinflation and economic instability. Images and video footage...
Narges Mohammad hasn't seen her children since she was imprisoned in Iran for her human rights activism more than three years ago. In this video she sings a love song for them during a brief furlough at her now empty home. "During this time, ...
For the first time in more than three years, Iranian political prisoner Narges Mohammadi was allowed to go on a three-day furlough on September 26, ...
Unnamed “special courts for economic crimes” in Iran have sentenced three people to death and condemned 32 others to long prison sentences for allegedly manipulating Iran’s gold and currency markets, Judiciary ...
Sotoudeh’s Sister Threatened With Arrest Imprisoned Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, has been charged with national security crimes for peacefully supporting his wife and ...
* This article was last updated on October 10, 2018. October 8, 2018 – Five out of the eight environmentalists who have been detained in Iran since January 2018, including a British-Iranian-American national, have been ...