Gender Equality Researcher Tried in Iran Under National Security Charge
Gender equality advocate Rezvaneh Mohammadi was tried in absentia in Tehran under the ...
Gender equality advocate Rezvaneh Mohammadi was tried in absentia in Tehran under the ...
Labor activist As’ad Behnam Ebrahimzadeh has been sentenced to five years in prison without due process. Another Workers' Rights Activist ...
Spring is in the air and for millions of people around the world including Iran, it marks the beginning of a new year. The ancient ...
Husband Publishes Sotoudeh’s Verdict Notes, Addressing Discrepancies Refusing to legitimize the unjust judicial process in Iran, in which defendants held on politically motivated charges are sentenced ...
Majid Shoja, Police Chief Three prisoners accused of killing law enforcement agents ...
Sentences Range from Six to 26 Years Including Lashes March 15, 2019 – The mass conviction of 23 dervishes of the Sufi Gonabadi Order ...
A coalition of diverse human rights organizations have signed an open letter supporting the renewal of the UN special rapporteur's (SR's) mandate on Iran. ...
Iranian students clash with riot police during an anti-government protest around the University of ...
Despite the apparent end of investigations by judicial authorities against labor activist Esmail Bakhshi and freelance reporter Sepideh Qoliyan, the two have not been ...
Iranian defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has been detained in Evin Prison under national security charges since June 13, 2018. ...
The widow of an Iranian Canadian academic who died under suspicious circumstances in Tehran’s Evin Prison has sued a judicial official ...
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The diplomatic service and foreign and defence ministry of the EU, European Union External Action (EEAS), has condemned the conviction of prominent Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh and urged Iran to guarantee her and her ...
[Editor's Note: Based on Nasrin Sotoudeh's written notes of her verdict (she was denied a physical copy), which she gave to her husband one ...
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry is pressing new charges against prominent Azeri ethnic rights activist Abbas Lesani, claiming ...
Every day women in Iran experience discrimination and violence. Some groups are more vulnerable than others. Children, women with disabilities and senior women face extreme violence with little means of seeking legal protections. All branches of the Iranian government are responsible for protecting women's rights. ...
Education Minister Claims Strikers Wrongly Teaching Students How to Protest Thousands of teachers went on strike...
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, March 8, Iranian lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi shared ...
Seat for Imprisoned Lawyer Was Left Empty at the Council’s Meeting Last Month The husband of imprisoned human rights attorney ...
The appointment of Ebrahim Raisi, who participated in “death commissions” that ordered the extrajudicial executions of thousands of prisoners in Iran in 1988, as Iran’s next head of the judiciary, represents a complete repudiation of the rule of law and a reward for those involved ...
A dual national academic who has taught at the University of Tehran and the Catholic University ...
Prominent Human Rights Defender Was Facing Decades in Prison, Sentence Unclear March 5, 2019 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...
In a statement published March 5, 2019, the highest ranking agency in the United Nations on the environment has called on Iran to guarantee a fair, transparent and independent trial for eight conservationists detained there ...
Abdolreza Fouladvand, the head of the Education Department in Tehran Responding to news of an autistic child being treated ...
Environmentalist Afshin Sheikholeslami Vatani, a US permanent resident, was arrested on February 17, 2019, at his father’s home in ...