Reformists Barred From Isfahan’s May 19 By-Election for Parliament
After disqualifying the initial reformist winner, Iran’s conservative Guardian Council has now barred most reformist candidates from running in the second-round election for ...
After disqualifying the initial reformist winner, Iran’s conservative Guardian Council has now barred most reformist candidates from running in the second-round election for ...
Former political activist Majid Asadi has been detained without charge in Evin Prison’s Ward 209 under the ...
Ebrahim Raisi Was Member of “Death Commissions” that Ordered Extrajudicial Killings of Thousands of Prisoners in 1988 April 14, 2017–The candidacy in ...
Abbas Lesani, an Azeri ethnic rights activist, is being tried for advocating state recognition of his mother tongue and making a ...
A month before Iranians head to the polls for the presidential and council elections, a heated exchange between the judiciary and ...
"Voting in Iran" by cartoonist Touka Neyestani....
Imprisoned civil rights advocate Atena Daemi has started a wet hunger strike to protest new sentences issued against ...
Mohammadi: Imprisonment Makes Me More “Determined” Imprisoned human rights defender Narges Mohammadi has been offered temporary release if she promises to be ...
Molavi Fazl al-Rahman Kouhi, an outspoken Sunni cleric in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan Province, was released from detention on $31,000 USD ...
The son of late Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who publicly condemned the extrajudicial executions of thousands of ...
Music producers Mehdi and Hossein Rajabian returned to Evin Prison in Tehran on April 4, 2017 after their request for ...
A little over a month before Iranians head to the polls on May 19, 2017, Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani has warned that a ...
An additional 91 days were added to civil rights activist Atena Daemi’s seven-year prison sentence...
Spokesman Strays From State Line on Hijab Despite interest expressed by foreign female runners, women participants in Tehran’s first international marathon will be ...
A number of Iranian female billiard players have been banned for a year from competitions for allegedly “violating the Islamic code of conduct” ...
Political activist Jafar (Shahin) Eghdami shaved his head and went on a three-day hunger strike on March ...
Robin (Reza) Shahini, the Iranian-American man sentenced to 18 years imprisonment in Iran on alleged security charges, has been ...
Five Baha’is were arrested at their homes in the city of Isfahan on March 28, 2017, Simin Fahandej, the faith’s spokesperson at the ...
After 24 days on hunger strike in Evin Prison in Tehran, reformist political activist Hengameh Shahidi, detained without charge and denied legal counsel ...
A little over a week after reformist members of Parliament asked Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to attend to a spate of arrests ahead of the ...
The five-year prison sentence against Christian convert Ebrahim Firoozi for his alleged missionary activities has been confirmed by the ...
The request for a judicial review of the death sentence against 21-year-old Sina Dehghan for “insulting the prophet” of Islam is ...
Outspoken political activist and former reformist member of Parliament Faezeh Hashemi will face a new trial ...
A member of Iran’s perseacuted Baha’i faith has expressed serious concerns about two imprisoned ailing family members who are being denied early release ...
Sina Dehghan, sentenced to death for “insulting the prophet” of Islam when he was 19-years-old, was tricked ...