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September 9, 2016

Journalist’s Prison Sentence Reduced to Two Years, with Two-Year Ban on Reporting

The 10-year prison sentence of newspaper columnist Afarin Chitsaz has been reduced to two years on appeal and she has been banned from ...

September 9, 2016

Iranian Judiciary Must Stop Punishing Media for Reporting Officials’ Corruption

September 9, 2016—Iran’s Judiciary must halt the prosecution of media outlets which carried out their journalist duty in publishing reports on alleged corruption in the ...

September 5, 2016

Iranian Women Made History at Rio Olympics

First Olympic Medal Won despite Little Official Support in Iran The Islamic Republic of Iran participated in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with 63 athletes, only nine of whom were women. Yet Kimia Alizadeh, competing ...

September 5, 2016

Labor Activists Put on Trial After Hundreds of Workers Protest Unpaid Wages

Labor activists Jafar Azimzadeh and Shapour Ehsani-Rad have been put on ...

September 1, 2016

Iran’s Security Establishment is Targeting the Students of an Imprisoned Spiritual Leader

Vahid Pourtahmasb is the fifth student of Mohammad Ali Taheri to have been arrested since 2015. Another student of imprisoned spiritual group leader ...

September 1, 2016

Judiciary Summons Woman for Seeking Answers About Infant Niece’s Disappearance

Rahleh Rahemipour has been summoned to Evin Prison by the Judiciary and questioned for demanding answers about her missing infant niece, whom Rahemipour says disappeared ...

September 1, 2016

Christians, Including Pastor’s Son, Arrested at Picnic Near Tehran

A Christian and four Christian converts were arrested on August 26, 2016 by the Intelligence Ministry near Tehran, the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...

August 31, 2016

Hackers Exploit Android Phone Security Flaw to Target Activists

Suspected state-sponsored hackers have intensified their attempts to break into the online accounts of Iranian rights activists in recent weeks by exploiting security ...

August 29, 2016

Unjustly Imprisoned Young Physicist Granted Conditional Release After Five Years

Omid Kokabee’s Release Comes After Months Struggling with Kidney Cancer That Was Left Untreated in Prison August 29, 2016—Imprisoned Iranian scientist Omid ...

August 29, 2016

Recording on 1988 Prison Massacre Exposes Early Fissure in the Islamic Republic of Iran

The recently released audio recording of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri sharply denouncing the mass execution of political prisoners ...

August 29, 2016

Judiciary Blocking Compensation for False Arrests

High Number of False Arrests Would Require Large Payout More than a year after Iran’s new Code of Criminal ...

August 24, 2016

Overcoming Obstacles: Leila Vaziri & the Nine Female Olympians from Iran

What does it take for a woman to overcome the challenges and make it to the Olympics? Watch world champion Leila Varizi in this video and join the Campaign in saluting the 9 Iranian women who made it to the ...

August 22, 2016

Elderly Pro-Democracy Activist Sentenced to Four Years in Prison

The four-year prison sentence handed down to imprisoned author and peaceful political activist Kourosh Zaim has no legal basis and the 77-year-old should be immediately released because of his advanced age, his lawyer ...

August 22, 2016

Nasrin Sotoudeh: “Hardliners are trying to open a new case against me”

Prominent Human Rights Lawyer is Summoned to Court Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer and former political prisoner, has been summoned to appear at Branch 28 of ...

August 22, 2016

Prominent Labor Activist’s Wife Awaits Verdict for Alleged Facebook Post

Najibeh Salehzadeh was never shown the “evidence” Najibeh Salehzadeh, who says she was falsely charged for posting “insulting” material on Facebook, is ...

August 18, 2016

Reformist Journalist’s Prison Sentence Reduced on Appeal

The prison sentence of reformist journalist Ehsan (Saman) Safarzaei has been reduced from five to two years, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has learned. ...

August 17, 2016

Cartoon 153: Silencing Montazeri

Following publication of the audio file of a 1988 meeting in which the late Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri admonished Sharia judges and officials about ...

August 16, 2016

Imprisoned Epileptic Journalist Denied Request for Early Release

Reformist Writer Has Not Had Access to His Lawyer Since 2014 Imprisoned reformist journalist Ahmad Asgari, who suffers from severe epilepsy, has been denied ...

August 16, 2016

Charges Against Iranian-American Reflect Iran’s Lasting Paranoia over Mass Protests of 2009

Detained Iranian-American Robin (Reza) Shahini has been formally charged with “acting against national security,” “participating in protest gatherings ...

August 16, 2016

Sunni Cleric Charged with Anti-State Activities for Criticizing Mass Execution

Hassan Amini, a Sunni cleric and Islamic judge based in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, has been interrogated and ...

August 16, 2016

Android Phone Users in Iran Face New Threat by Hackers

Popular Telegram App Remains Main Target Hackers posing as friends are using phone numbers based in the UK ...

August 15, 2016

Rouhani Battles Religious Hardliners Over Concert Cancellations in Iran

A simmering battle between the government of President Hassan Rouhani and hardline religious figures over music concerts is playing out in northeastern Iran. ...

August 12, 2016

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Tries to Hide Evidence of Massacre of Thousands of Political Prisoners in 1988

Recording of Ayatollah Montazeri’s Plea to Stop the Executions is Taken Off Website An audio file of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri—the once successor to Iran’s first supreme ...

August 12, 2016