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Sisters of Imprisoned Activist Atena Daemi Cleared of Revenge Charges Filed by Revolutionary Guards

Sisters of Imprisoned Activist Atena Daemi Cleared of Revenge Charges Filed by Revolutionary Guards

February 20, 2017

A court has rejected charges brought by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Courts (IRGC) against Onsieh Daemi and Hanieh Daemi, the sisters of imprisoned civil rights activist Atena Daemi, ...

Tehran Criminal Court Sentences Three Alleged Thieves to Hand Amputations

Tehran Criminal Court Sentences Three Alleged Thieves to Hand Amputations

February 20, 2017

An unknown man's hand is amputated in Iran. A criminal court in Tehran has sentenced three alleged thieves to hand amputations and other punishments for committing robbery, according to a ...

Iran’s Supreme Leader Cements Hardline Position by Rejecting Offer of National Reconciliation

Iran’s Supreme Leader Cements Hardline Position by Rejecting Offer of National Reconciliation

February 17, 2017

Some Conservatives Side With Reformist Leader Khatami Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s refusal of an offer to achieve “national reconciliation” in Iran by ending the six-year extrajudicial house arrests of three ...

Revolutionary Guards Try to Silence US-Based Iranian Dissident by Arresting Her Sister

Revolutionary Guards Try to Silence US-Based Iranian Dissident by Arresting Her Sister

February 15, 2017

Update: Leila Haghighatjou was released on February 19, 2017 on bail set at 220 million tomans ($68,000 USD). Leila Haghighatjou, the sister of Fatemeh Haghighatjou, an outspoken critic of the Islamic Republic, was arrested by the ...

Opposition Leader’s Son: Khamenei and Rouhani Are Responsible for Extrajudicial House Arrests

Opposition Leader’s Son: Khamenei and Rouhani Are Responsible for Extrajudicial House Arrests

February 15, 2017

The son of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, who has been detained under house arrest without trial since 2011, told the Campaign for Human Rights ...

Intelligence Ministry Violently Arrests Teenage Ethnic Arab Activist in Khuzestan

Intelligence Ministry Violently Arrests Teenage Ethnic Arab Activist in Khuzestan

February 15, 2017

Ali Kab-Aomair, a 17-year-old ethnic Arab activist, has been held incommunicado since he was violently arrested on February 8, 2017 by agents of the Intelligence Ministry in Ahwaz, ...

Iran’s Judiciary Commutes Death Sentences of Some Juvenile Offenders

Iran’s Judiciary Commutes Death Sentences of Some Juvenile Offenders

February 13, 2017

The Iranian judiciary has agreed to commute the death sentences of six people who were sentenced to death while they were juveniles while refusing the requests of four others, Tehran’s Prosecutor Abbas Jafari ...

Report: Iranian Hackers Target Activists’ Mac Devices With Revamped Malware

Report: Iranian Hackers Target Activists’ Mac Devices With Revamped Malware

February 12, 2017

State-sponsored Iranian hackers, who had until now focused almost exclusively on civil and human rights-focused users of the Windows and Android operating systems, have ...

In Iran, From Prison to Exile for Posting Jokes on Facebook

In Iran, From Prison to Exile for Posting Jokes on Facebook

February 6, 2017

After completing a five-year prison sentence in Iran for posting jokes about religion on Facebook, the Judiciary has sent Soheil Babadi into exile. The 39-year-old computer engineer ...

Intelligence Ministry Cracks Down on Alleged “Anti-Revolutionary” Telegram Channels

Intelligence Ministry Cracks Down on Alleged “Anti-Revolutionary” Telegram Channels

February 6, 2017

A screenshot of the heavily edited alleged video “confession” of a man identified as “Shahin.” ...

Judge Salavati Threatens Iranian-Born Swedish Resident With Death Penalty On Day One of Trial

Judge Salavati Threatens Iranian-Born Swedish Resident With Death Penalty On Day One of Trial

February 6, 2017

Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been detained in Tehran without due process since April 2016, was threatened with the death penalty on the first day of his ...

Editor Detained by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Pleads for Help From Evin Prison

Editor Detained by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Pleads for Help From Evin Prison

February 2, 2017

Tahereh Riahi, the social affairs editor of the state-funded Borna News Agency, who has been detained by the Intelligence Ministry since late ...

Iranian-Dutch Dual National and Dissident Imprisoned in Tehran Denied Medical Care

Iranian-Dutch Dual National and Dissident Imprisoned in Tehran Denied Medical Care

February 1, 2017

Update: Sabri Hassanpour was released in April 2018. The officials of Evin Prison are denying Sabri Hassanpour, an Iranian-born citizen of the Netherlands and outspoken critic of the Islamic Republic who ...

Trump’s travel ban is a gift to Iran’s rulers

Trump’s travel ban is a gift to Iran’s rulers

January 31, 2017

Marian Vayghan reacts after her uncle is released from a detention center for deportation back to Iran as people protest President Trump’s travel ban from Muslim-majority ...

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Arrests Mother of Green Movement Gunshot Victim

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Arrests Mother of Green Movement Gunshot Victim

January 27, 2017

Shahnaz Akmali, the mother of a well-known victim of the Islamic Republic’s violent crackdown on the Green Movement, which grew out of the widespread protests ...

Iranian University Conceals Evidence of Expelling Baha’i Students for Religious Beliefs

Iranian University Conceals Evidence of Expelling Baha’i Students for Religious Beliefs

January 26, 2017

"Death to Baha'is" reads the graffiti spray painted by a vandal on the gates of a Baha'i-owned home. Fifteen Baha'i Students Expelled in December and January At ...

Rouhani Must Act Against Imprisonment of Dual Nationals

Rouhani Must Act Against Imprisonment of Dual Nationals

January 25, 2017

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Husband Writes Direct Plea to Rouhani January 25, 2017–The Iranian Judiciary’s recent upholding of the indefensible five-year prison sentence...

Ailing British-Iranian Grandpa Serving 7-Year Prison Sentence Denied Medical Leave

Ailing British-Iranian Grandpa Serving 7-Year Prison Sentence Denied Medical Leave

January 23, 2017

Kamal Foroughi, a 77-year-old ailing British-Iranian dual citizen and former civil engineer incarcerated at Evin Prison in Tehran since May 2011, has been denied previously promised and urgently required extended medical ...

Poll: 70% of Iranians Dissatisfied With Rouhani on Democracy and Civil Rights

Poll: 70% of Iranians Dissatisfied With Rouhani on Democracy and Civil Rights

January 21, 2017

A survey of public opinion in Iran conducted in the last quarter of 2016 shows that even though a large majority of Iranians (75%) rated advancing democracy and protecting personal and ...

Civil Rights Activist Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison at 10-Minute Mass Trial Released

Civil Rights Activist Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison at 10-Minute Mass Trial Released

January 21, 2017

Revolutionary Guards Pressured Judiciary for Harsh Sentences Civil rights advocate Aso Rostami—whose initial mass trial with three other activists lasted “barely 10 minutes”—was released from Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj on January 15, 2017 at the ...

Award-Winning Kurdish Filmmaker Denied Urgent Hospitalization by Evin Prison Authorities

Award-Winning Kurdish Filmmaker Denied Urgent Hospitalization by Evin Prison Authorities

January 19, 2017

The authorities of Evin Prison in Tehran are refusing to transfer imprisoned filmmaker Keyvan Karimi to a hospital outside the prison for urgent medical care, his lawyer, Amir Raeisian, told the ...

Court Rejects Some New Charges by Revolutionary Guards Against Activist Sentenced to 7 Years In Prison

Court Rejects Some New Charges by Revolutionary Guards Against Activist Sentenced to 7 Years In Prison

January 19, 2017

Atena Daemi and Family Still Face Legal Persecution Three of the five new charges brought against imprisoned civil rights advocate Atena Daemi by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) were dismissed after two policemen ...

Saeed Shirzad Ends Hunger Strike After Officials Pledge to End Rights Abuses at Rajaee Shahr Prison

January 19, 2017

An informed source close to imprisoned civil rights activist Saeed Shirzad said Shirzad ended his hunger strike after 39 days when “Judiciary and Rajaee Shahr Prison officials ...

Ailing Political Prisoner Issa Saharkhiz on Hunger Strike Against Additional Six-Month Sentence

Ailing Political Prisoner Issa Saharkhiz on Hunger Strike Against Additional Six-Month Sentence

January 19, 2017

Imprisoned political commentator Issa Saharkhiz began a wet hunger strike on January 14, 2017 to protest a newly issued six-month prison sentence for allegedly “slandering the supreme leader.” Saharkhiz is ...

Judiciary Cites “Lost” Case Files in Denying Man Imprisoned for 23 Years Medical Care

Judiciary Cites “Lost” Case Files in Denying Man Imprisoned for 23 Years Medical Care

January 18, 2017

Political prisoner Mohammad Nazari, imprisoned in Tehran for the past 23 years, has told the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that even though his prison warden sent a letter ...

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