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June 6, 2016

Officials Seek to Confront Iran’s Increasingly Popular “White Marriages”

The increasing popularity of Iranian couples living together without getting officially married has alarmed officials of the Islamic Republic who question the morality of the ...

June 6, 2016

New Iranian Bill Aims to Keep Women Out of Workforce

A bill that would reduce the working hours of female employees, which was passed in the last days of Iran’s outgoing Parliament on May ...

June 3, 2016

Negligence by Major Tech Companies like Google and Telegram Aiding Iran’s Cyber Army

Tech Giants’ Failure to Implement Security Measures Endangers Millions of Users Large technology firms are failing to provide sophisticated and country-specific user security measures, and as a result, are helping Iran’s state agencies target Iranian citizens online, ...

June 3, 2016

Hardline Council Fires New Shot against Rouhani Administration in Battle Over Social Media in Iran

Directive Forcing Messaging Apps to Store User Data in Iran Would Give Authorities Access to Accounts The directive by Iran’s Supreme Cyberspace Council ...

June 2, 2016

Cartoon 146: No Friendship with Baha’is!

Faezeh Hashemi, the outspoken daughter of prominent former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been threatened with prosecution by a high ranking Judiciary ...

June 2, 2016

Music Distributors Summoned to Prison: Don’t Forget Us

Mehdi Rajabian, Hossein Rajabian and Yousef Emadi, all managers of BargMusic—one of the main producers and distributors ...

June 2, 2016

Kurdish Political Prisoner Resumes Hunger Strike Despite Risk of Death

Prominent Kurdish human rights activist Mohammad Sediq Kaboudvand has resumed his hunger strike following his hospitalization in ...

June 1, 2016

Women Prisoners Collectively Punished For Baha’i Leader’s Meeting with Activist during Her Furlough

Inmates at the Women’s Ward in Evin Prison have been told that their furloughs (temporary leave) have been canceled and that they ...

May 31, 2016

Hospitalized Christian Convert Returned to Prison Without Treatment

Imprisoned Christian convert Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran, who had no access to legal counsel during her trial in 2013, was hospitalized in Tehran on ...

May 31, 2016

Iranian Gold Miners Lashed for Protesting Layoffs

Seventeen miners in northwestern Iran have been lashed on orders of the Judiciary after their employer sued them for protesting the firing of hundreds ...

May 26, 2016

Cartoon 145: “The Critic Should Not Be Arrested and Taken to Prison!”

On May 3, 2016, during a speech at the grand opening of Tehran Book Fair, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said, “The critic should ...

May 26, 2016

Activist Imprisoned and Tortured Without Access to a Lawyer for Shouting “Death to Khamenei”

Labor activist Mehdi Farahi Shandiz, imprisoned for shouting “death to [Ali] Khamenei,” Iran’s supreme leader, is being unlawfully held in Rajaee Shahr Prison’s ...

May 26, 2016

Ailing Political Prisoner, Denied Legal Counsel and Medical Care, Sentenced to 39 Years in Prison

Alireza Golipour, imprisoned in Iran since 2012 on national security charges and denied access to a lawyer until May 2016, has been ...

May 25, 2016

Imprisoned Physicist Given Two-Week Medical Furlough After Losing Cancerous Kidney

Imprisoned physicist Omid Kokabee has been granted a two-week medical furlough upon payment of five billion rials ($164,000 USD) ...

May 24, 2016

Kurdish Political Prisoner in Iran on Hunger Strike to Protest New Charges

Mohammad Sediq Kaboudvand, a prominent Kurdish human rights activist who is in his ninth year of incarceration at Tehran’s Evin ...

May 24, 2016

Iran Must End State Persecution of Baha’is, Say Exiled Iranian Political Figures

In the wake of the intense criticism by Iranian officials and religious leaders of Faezeh Hashemi, ...

May 20, 2016

Environmentalist’s Facebook Account Hacked, Used to Deny Her Detention while She Was Still Behind Bars

Zakiya Neysi’s Father Forced to Sign Pledge Prior to her Release The day after environmental activist Zakiya Neysi was arrested ...

May 19, 2016

Leading Iranian Human Rights Activist to Serve Ten Years in Prison

Narges Mohammadi Sentenced for Her Peaceful Activism in Iran May 19, 2016—The prominent Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi ...

May 19, 2016

Young Kurdish Activist’s Mother: “My son is dying in prison”

Prisoner of conscience Afshin Sohrabzadeh, 27, is suffering from cancer in Minab Prison in southern Iran and ...

May 19, 2016

Concerts of Popular Iranian Musicians Canceled Due to Pressure from Religious Conservatives

Two of Iran’s top musicians have been prevented from performing in the city of Neyshabour and other locations in northeastern Khorasan ...

May 17, 2016

Iran’s Fashion Industry under Assault; Details of Arrests of Models by Revolutionary Guards Surface

Eight Arrests and Scores Interrogated in "Project Spider 2" May 17, 2016—Eight people working in Iran’s fashion industry have ...

May 17, 2016

Women Prevented from Attending Iran’s Premier League Finale

Ban on Women in Stadiums Upheld Under President Rouhani Iranian women were once again blocked from attending ...

May 16, 2016

French Foreign Ministry Staffer with Dual Citizenship Awaits Appeal on Prison Sentence in Iran

Nazak Afshar, an employee of France’s Foreign Ministry who holds Iranian and French citizenship, is awaiting a ruling on her appeal against a six-year prison sentence issued by Judge Abolqasem Salavati of Branch 15 of the ...

May 16, 2016

Imprisoned Political Activist, Currently Appealing 21-Year Sentence, Denied Adequate Medical Care

Prisoner of conscience Amir Amirgholi, who has appealed the 21-year prison sentence he was issued earlier this year in 2016, has been ...

May 16, 2016

Imprisoned Spiritual Leader Slapped with New Charges Upon Completing Sentence

Mohammad Ali Taheri, an imprisoned spiritual leader who was supposed to be freed more than two months ago ...

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