10 Years Later, This Baha’i Manufacturer is Still Fighting to Claim His Business in Iran
Payam Vali’s manufacturing business was shuttered in Iran in 2008 because of his religious beliefs. ...
Prisoners / Arrests
Oxford PhD Student Denied Legal Counsel 40 Days After Being Arrested in Iran
Father Claims IRGC’s Intelligence Organization is Cooking Up Case Against His Activist Son Reformist political activist Mohammadreza Jalaeipour, an Oxford University PhD student, has been held without charge and access ...
Iranian Cleric Under Seven-Year House Arrest Says Only Death Will Bring Him Freedom
Former Presidential Candidate Mehdi Karroubi Detained in His Home Without Trial Since 2011 An Iranian cleric and former presidential candidate who has been restricted to his home under state surveillance since February 2011 without ...
15 Arrested at Aborted Talks Over Water Dispute in Southwestern Iran
Fifteen negotiators representing protesting farmers in the southern Iranian province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad were arrested on May 29, 2018, as they showed up for talks over a water dispute. ...
10 Iranian HEPCO Workers Striking For Unpaid Wages Charged With “Disturbing Public Order”
Ten striking workers at Iran's Heavy Equipment Production Company (HEPCO) in the city of Arak, south of Tehran, were charged with “disturbing public order” for participating in protests billed as “illegal ...
Wave of Baha’i Arrests in Iran Raises Alarm at Faith’s UN Office
The Baha'i International Community (BIC) at the United Nations has expressed alarm over a spate of arrests of Baha’i faith members in three Iranian provinces by agents of the ...
Two Confirmed Killed and 48 Injured in May 2018 Protests in Kazeroon
Bullets fired by police in the city of Kazeroon, Fars Province, killed two men—Ali Mohammadian and Azad Omid Reza Yousefian—during protests there in May 2018 the Center for Human Rights in Iran ...
Sufi Bus Driver on Death Row in Iran Denies Killing Policemen in Audio File Released by Lawyer
Mohammad Salas’ Attorney Zeynab Taheri Summoned to Court to Face Charges The lawyer of Tehran-based death row prisoner Mohammad Salas has released an audio file in which he denies ...
Hardline Judge Orders Zaghari-Ratcliffe to Hire Different Lawyer After Issuing New Charge
Imprisoned Dual National Allowed to Speak to UK Ambassador for First Time After being told she is facing the charge of “propaganda against the state,” imprisoned Iranian British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was told ...
Who Are the Dual and Foreign Nationals Imprisoned in Iran? (Updated)
At least 21 (15 dual nationals, five foreign nationals and one foreign permanent resident) were known to be held in Iran (imprisoned, under house arrest, or prohibited from leaving the country) as of July 2022 ...
Iranian VP Refutes Espionage Claims Against Detained Environmentalists, Calls for Their Release
The head of Iran’s Department of Environment (DOE), Vice President Isa Kalantari, has publicly rejected claims by hardline judicial officials and media outlets that environmentalists detained in a crackdown by the ...
Iran Tightens Internet Censorship by Requiring Government Agencies to Use State-Approved Search Engines
After banning the widely used Telegram messaging app, the Iranian government is once again deepening its censorship and suppression of internet use in the ...
Iranian Judge Prosecutes Political Prisoner Without a Lawyer, Sentences Him to Five More Years
Political prisoner Mohammad Ali (Pirooz) Mansouri, eligible for conditional release after spending more than a decade in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr and Evin Prisons, ...
Local Police in South Iran Accused of Killing Two Protesters
Protests in Kazeroon Ongoing For Months Over Plan to Divide City At least two people are suspected to have been killed and several wounded after police in the south-western ...
Sufi Bus Driver Sentenced to Death in Iran Says He Confessed to Killing Policemen While Under Torture
A Sufi bus driver who was sentenced to death in Iran for running over three policeman says he was forced to confess after being tortured while ...
Iranian Canadian’s Widow Maryam Mombeini Hospitalized Two Months After Being Banned From Leaving Iran
The wife of an Iranian Canadian academic who died in Iranian custody under suspicious circumstances in February 2018 was hospitalized for three days after exhibiting symptoms of a nervous breakdown. “My mother had been in Pars ...
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Case Re-Opened Ahead of UK Foreign Secretary’s Meeting With Iranian Officials
The Mother of a Toddler Has Been Serving a Five-Year Prison Sentence Since 2016 Already serving a five-year prison sentence on trumped-up espionage charges in Tehran’s Evin Prison, Iranian ...
Baha’i Leader’s 10-Year Prison Sentence Extended Despite Judicial Ruling That He Is Too Ill to Be Incarcerated
Afif Naeimi, the seventh and last imprisoned member of Baha’i leaders in Iran known as the Yaran, returned to Rajaee Shahr Prison near Tehran on April 23, 2018, at the end of his medical leave despite suffering from life-threatening ailments. His wife Shahla Khalaji informed the Center for ...
Despite Facing Prison, Rights Lawyer Mohammad Najafi Still Seeking Justice For Deceased Detainee
“The authorities…told me that they are trying to grind me into oblivion.” Mohammad Najafi, a human rights lawyer facing years behind bars in Iran for publicly arguing...
Rouhani Commission on Detainee Deaths in Iran Fails to Produce Results Three Months After Formation
The fact-finding commission set up by President Hassan Rouhani to investigate the recent spate of detainee deaths in Iran has produced ...
Shaparak Shajarizadeh Twice Arrested For Allegedly Removing Her Headscarf in Public in Iran
Shaparak Shajarizadeh has been arrested again for allegedly allowing her hair to show in public in Iran. Her lawyer, prominent human ...
Dozens of Environmentalists Arrested in Southern Iran in Widening Crackdown
MP: Intelligence Ministry Has Rejected Espionage Claims More than 40 environmentalists, rangers and some of their relatives were arrested May 7-8, 2018, in the southern Iranian harbor city of Bandar Lengeh and surrounding towns ...
Lawyer: Dervish Bus Driver Could be Executed in “3 or 4 Days” Despite Innocence Plea
Mohammad Salas, a Sufi bus driver convicted in Iran of running over three policemen in the capital city of Tehran, could be hanged in a “few days” despite ...
800 Iranian Environmentalists Call on President Rouhani to Uphold the Rights of Detained Colleagues
Detainees’ Families Still Seeking Answers More Than Three Months Into Loved Ones’ Arrests President Hassan Rouhani has not responded to a letter by 800 Iranian environmentalists demanding clarification ...