Young Kurdish Activist’s Mother: “My son is dying in prison”
Prisoner of conscience Afshin Sohrabzadeh, 27, is suffering from cancer in Minab Prison in southern Iran and could die from internal bleeding if he does not receive outside ...
Prisoners / Arrests
Iran’s Fashion Industry under Assault; Details of Arrests of Models by Revolutionary Guards Surface
Eight Arrests and Scores Interrogated in "Project Spider 2" May 17, 2016—Eight people working in Iran’s fashion industry have been arrested and formally charged in an industry wide crackdown led by ...
French Foreign Ministry Staffer with Dual Citizenship Awaits Appeal on Prison Sentence in Iran
Nazak Afshar, an employee of France’s Foreign Ministry who holds Iranian and French citizenship, is awaiting a ruling on her appeal against a six-year prison sentence issued by Judge Abolqasem Salavati of Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court on unspecified charges. Afshar is a former staff member of ...
Imprisoned Political Activist, Currently Appealing 21-Year Sentence, Denied Adequate Medical Care
Prisoner of conscience Amir Amirgholi, who has appealed the 21-year prison sentence he was issued earlier this year in 2016, has been denied medical treatment outside the prison for severe pancreatitis, his ...
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 completing a five-year prison sentence, has again been charged ...
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. Beheshti Langroudi was ...
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 been detained in Iran without legal representation for ...
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 immediate hospitalization following his most recent transfer to Evin Prison’s ...
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 was released from Evin Prison on May 3, 2016, a ...
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 Afarin Chitsaz will make a judicial ...
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 Iranian journalists who live outside Iran, the Revolutionary Guards have ...
Four Iranian Rights Activists Summoned to Appear Together at Appeals Court
Rights activists Omid Alishenas, Atena Daemi, Ali Nouri and Aso Rostami have been summoned to appear together at an Appeals Court in ...
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, the lawyer representing two of the individuals told the International ...
Public Outcry in Iran Over Plan for Increased Morality Police Prompts Review
Deploying 7,000 undercover morality police in Tehran contradicts the principle of the presumption of innocence, Iranian lawyer Ali Rambod told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “We should move towards interpreting laws on the basis ...
Revolutionary Guards’ Cyber Attacks Now Directed at Rouhani Cabinet Members
IRGC Actively Recruiting Technical Experts to Staff New Hacking Team April 26, 2016—Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, who have long waged cyber attacks against the country’s activists and journalists, have extended their hacking attacks to Rouhani ...
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 20, 2016 at Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. ...
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 in Iran for his refusal to work on military research, ...
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 in prison to 18 months, making her eligible ...
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 disputed 2009 presidential election, has written an ...
EU Must Not Ignore Iran’s Human Rights Record, Says Former Political Prisoner
“Do not forget the spilt blood of Iranian youths or the young and old prisoners suffering in small and large prisons in this country when you are negotiating huge profitable deals with senior Iranian ...
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 imprisoned in Iran for over 5 years for his refusal ...
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 on military research for the Islamic Republic, has been diagnosed ...
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 has been on dry and wet hunger strikes since March ...
Business Leaders around the World Call for an End to Iran’s Closure of Baha’i Businesses
Read this article in Persian here. Letter to Khamenei Urges Respect for Economic Rights of Baha’is In a signed statement addressed to Iran’s supreme leader, 54 leading business people ...
Lawyer Released from Prison in Iran Describes Grim Conditions for Political Prisoners
Prisoners Face Denial of Medical Care, Refusal to Transfer Inmates to Hospital despite Life Threatening Illness, Solitary Confinement Aimed at Extracting False Confessions, Poor Nutrition, Denial of Family Visits April 14, 2016—Mohammad Seifzadeh, the prominent Iranian ...