Labor Activist Freed From Rajaee Shahr Prison After Serving Seven Years Behind Bars
After serving seven years, labor activist As’ad (Behnam) Ebrahimzadeh was released from Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, ...
After serving seven years, labor activist As’ad (Behnam) Ebrahimzadeh was released from Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, ...
Get caught up on Iran’s 2017 presidential and local council elections with a special weekly update by CHRI. ...
Gholamhossein Karbaschi, the reformist former mayor of Tehran and a supporter of President Hassan Rouhani, has ...
Not one of the candidates running for Iran’s presidency has an acceptable human rights record, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate ...
The campaign headquarters of reformists in Khorasan Razavi Province, northeastern Iran, was shuttered on May 2, 2017—three weeks before the country’s presidential and local council elections on May 19, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. ...
Atena Daemi, a human rights activist serving a seven-year prison sentence for her ...
Since Ebrahim Raisi announced his candidacy for Iran’s presidency, videos have been appearing online defending the ...
Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi, who served on a special committee in 1988 that ...
Instagram’s live video feature has been blocked in Tehran by several internet and mobile phone providers since ...
Three 24-year-olds have been sentenced to 12 years in prison each in Iran for posting critical commentary about politics and religion on the ...
Political parties and factions in Iran should promote more women candidates in the country’s local council elections to improve gender equality, Sedigheh Vasmaghi, ...
Issa Saharkhiz Facing New Trial Reformist political commentator Issa Saharkhiz and former political activist Navid Kamran were released ...
In a surprising development, a few outspoken and prominent political activists have been approved to run in Iran’s elections for city and village councils on May 19, 2017. However, many well-known activists and reformists have been arbitrarily disqualified. ...
Supreme Court Upholds Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Five-Year Prison Sentence The husband of Nazanin-Zaghari Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British citizen imprisoned in Iran since April ...
The Guardian Council’s attempt to ban religious minorities from running in Iran’s nationwide local council elections on May 19, 2017 is unlawful ...
Payam Shakiba, a political science graduate student at Tehran’s Allameh Tabataba’i University, has been held in solitary confinement in Evin Prison’s ...
Ahmadreza Jalali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident detained in Evin Prison since April 2016, has been ...
In the run-up to Iran’s May 19, 2017 presidential election, a Sunni Muslim former member of Parliament has renewed his call ...
Iran’s judiciary has ordered internet companies to block the Telegram messaging application’s newly released “Voice Calls” ...
Women's rights advocate Nahid Tavasoli is the editor-in-chief of Nafe, an academic women’s periodical. The low number of female participants in Iranian elections is an indicator of inequality ...
Iranian media outlets have been ordered to stop reporting on former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s third presidential campaign for the ...
Imprisoned children and human rights activist Atena Daemi has been stricken with ...
Prominent political activist, Azam Taleghani, 72, makes ...
The candidacy of Ebrahim Raisi in Iran’s May 19 presidential election ...
Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and former political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh has ...