Reformist Journalist, Activist Arrested in Run-Up to Iran’s 2017 Election Post Bail
Ailing Human Rights Lawyer Granted Brief Furlough Journalist Tahereh Riahi and civil rights activist Mona ...
Ailing Human Rights Lawyer Granted Brief Furlough Journalist Tahereh Riahi and civil rights activist Mona ...
Narges Mohammadi, a prominent human rights activist serving a 16-year prison sentence for her peaceful advocacy efforts, is publicly urging ...
Map shows extent of #ISupportRouhani tweets in Iran by ...
A few weeks after being elected for a second term as president, Hassan Rouhani had to be whisked away from a ...
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s recent declaration that his supporters should “fire at will” against presumed enemies of the state is an established policy of the ...
Husband Pressured to Confess to Espionage Formerly imprisoned photojournalist Asal Esmailzadeh was “suddenly” arrested without charge while accompanying her husband to the Culture and ...
The killing, by border guards, of another kulbar—the Persian word for the border-crossing couriers who transport ...
The chief of Iran’s judiciary has responded to recent comments by the US secretary of state describing the Trump ...
Telegram channel admin Nima Keshvari was detained in mid-March 2017 by the IRGC's Intelligence Organization. ...
Works by prominent Iranian-American artists were showcased to a packed house on June 14, the opening night of the ...
Hengameh Shahidi’s Family Under Media Ban More than three months after her arrest and detainment, ailing political activist Hengameh Shahidi...
A travel ban imposed by the Iranian judiciary has prevented prominent labor rights activists Reza Shahabi and ...
The arrests by Iranian security forces of dozens of suspects with alleged links to the terrorist group that calls ...
A Parliamentary committee in Iran has blocked an attempt by security agencies to delay for a year a parliamentary vote ...
Iran’s supreme leader has forbidden the government of President Hassan Rouhani from implementing any part of ...
After being denied entry into Iran’s sports stadiums since 2012, hundreds of women were allowed inside Tehran’s 12,000-seat Azadi Arena on ...
While his family waited for him outside Rajaee Shahr Prison the day he was supposed to be released, ...
An imprisoned media advisor to former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of offering ...
The Friday prayer leader of the city of Saveh in central Iran is facing backlash from reformist members of Parliament after he called female supporters ...
A cabinet minister appointed by centrist President Hassan Rouhani has admitted that the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology filtered “seven million” websites during Rouhani’s first term (2013-17) ...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has broken his silence over the state’s execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988, which ...
Farzad Safaei was one semester away from a bachelor’s degree in industrial metallurgy at the Islamic Azad University when he was expelled on May 20, 2017 by the security office for being a member of the Baha’i faith ...
The Center for Human Rights in Iran strongly condemns the terrorist attacks in Tehran and urges the Iranian authorities to avoid violating the citizenry’s civil and political rights in its investigations ...
Ailing political activist Hengameh Shahidi, who has been on hunger strike in Evin Prison since March 16, 2017 to protest her detention without charge, is being subjected to renewed interrogations by security agents ...
Imprisoned music producers Mehdi Rajabian and his brother Hossein Rajabian refused ...