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January 12, 2017

Tehran University Invite Lands Iranian-Swedish Disaster Medicine Expert in Jail

Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident and expert in emergency disaster medicine who has been detained in Evin Prison without trial since April ...

January 12, 2017

Iranian-Swedish Disaster Medicine Expert Held in Iran Jail for Nine Months, on Hunger Strike Since Dec. 25

Case Continues Pattern of Dual Nationals Snatched and Held Without Due Process January 12, 2017—In yet another case of a foreign resident or dual national ...

January 12, 2017

Civil Rights Activist Imprisoned for Social Media Postings Released on Bail

Civil rights activist Esmail “Zartosht” Ahmadi-Ragheb—detained in Evin Prison since January 2016 for criticizing Iranian politics on social media—was released ...

January 10, 2017

Rafsanjani’s Death Reshuffles the Political Deck in Iran

The heads of Iran’s three ...

January 10, 2017

Wife of Imprisoned Activist Arash Sadeghi Resists Order to Return to Prison

Political prisoner Arash Sadeghi, the husband of Golrokh Iraee who went on a 71-day hunger strike demanding a case ...

January 10, 2017

Iran’s Telegram Registration Requirement Widens Governmental Snooping Powers

Requiring Telegram ...

January 9, 2017

Reformist Journalist Convicted of “Propaganda Against the State” Completes One-Year Prison Sentence

Reformist journalist Reyhaneh Tabatabaie was released from Evin Prison in Tehran on January 5, 2017 after serving a ...

January 6, 2017

Conservative Tehran MP to Judiciary: Review Case of Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike

Wave of Hunger Strikes Highlights Prisoners’ Plights Conservative member of Parliament Ali Motahari has publicly asked the Judiciary to review the case of ailing political ...

January 6, 2017

Nobel Laureate’s Call for Resignation of Iran’s Judiciary Chief Puts Spotlight on Rampant Judicial Abuses

January 6, 2017—The call for the resignation of Iran’s top judicial official, Sadegh Larijani, by the prominent Iranian ...

January 5, 2017

Iran’s First Female Judge and Nobel Laureate Calls for Resignation of Judiciary Chief

Shirin Ebadi: Interrogators Make Decisions for the Judges Amid the ongoing wave of life-threatening hunger strikes by political prisoners in Iran, Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi has called ...

January 4, 2017

Arash Sadeghi’s 71-Day Hunger Strike Achieves Promise of Case Review for Imprisoned Wife

Public Pressure Forces Iran’s Judiciary to Retreat From Hardline Stance “The [Tehran] Assistant Prosecutor Mr. Hajilou accepted that my case was wrongfully handled, but said it ...

January 4, 2017

Persecution of Dual Nationals: Businessman Serving 10-Year Prison Sentence After Coerced Confession

Security Forces Use Kamran Ghaderi's Wife as “Bait” to Coerce Confession Iranian-Austrian dual citizen Kamran Ghaderi is entering the second year of his 10-year prison sentence in solitary ...

December 29, 2016

Political Prisoner Banned from Visits After Sending Complaint to Warden

Imprisoned doctoral student Hamid Babaei has been banned from receiving visitations after the prison warden accused him of “insulting” Iran’s supreme leader ...

December 28, 2016

Revolutionary Court Sentences More Than 70 Iranians to Prison for Celebrating “Cyrus Day”

Islamic Republic Represses Commemoration of Pre-Islamic Era History Update: Most of the people arrested for celebrating the unofficial birthday of “Cyrus the Great” have had their sentences reduced or ...

December 23, 2016

Union Leader Receives Unofficial Warning To Return to Prison or Lose $140,000 Bail

Labor rights activist Jafar Azimzadeh has been told that he must return to Evin Prison in Tehran ...

December 23, 2016

Iranian-American “Completely Isolated” in Iran’s Gorgan Prison

Iranian-American political prisoner Reza (Robin) Shahini is being held in adverse conditions with dangerous criminals in Gorgan Prison, 186 miles northeast of Tehran in Golestan Province, ...

December 23, 2016

Imprisoned Activist Faces New Charges After Filing Complaint About Revolutionary Guards

Iranian civil rights defender Atena Daemi, who is serving a seven-year prison sentence ...

December 22, 2016

Lebanese-American Internet Freedom Advocate Starts Hunger Strike in Iran’s Evin Prison

Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese-born U.S. permanent resident and internet freedom advocate who was sentenced to 10 years in ...

December 21, 2016

Reformist Journalist Targeted by Intelligence Agents Awaits Sentence After Kafkaesque Trial

Reformist journalist Farzad Pourmoradi is awaiting sentencing after being tried at Branch 103 of the Criminal Court in Kermanshah, northwestern Iran, on ...

December 20, 2016

Five Political Prisoners in Iran on Life-Threatening Hunger Strikes in Desperate Bid for Case Reviews

The lives of at least three imprisoned civil rights activists in Iran are perilously in danger after suffering health complications from weeks ...

December 19, 2016

Protestant Church Property Confiscated in Iran by Khamenei-Supervised Organization

The largest Persian-speaking Protestant community in Iran, Jama'at-e Rabbani, has announced that it has been stripped of its ownership of ...

December 16, 2016

Five Gonabadi Dervishes Arrested in Iran Amid Ongoing Persecution Campaign

Five dervishes of the Sufi Gonabadi Order were arrested in the southern Iranian city of Dezful on December 13, 2016 after obeying a summons to appear ...

December 16, 2016