The Iranian Judiciary’s continued practice, under the direction of Sadegh Amoli Larijani, of carrying out amputations as a routine punishment, is not only in direct conflict with international treaties Iran has signed, it has also utterly ...
Banning of Films Continues under Rouhani Administration Despite repeated statements made by President Rouhani regarding the need to allow more cultural freedoms in Iran, ...
Mohammad Hossein Rafiee Mohammad Hossein Rafiee, a 71-year-old political activist has been illegally held in detention since June 16, 2015, apparently in connection with a prison sentence that is ...
Atena Faraghdani The artist and civil activist Atena Faraghdani has developed signs of lymphatic disease in prison as she awaits her chance to challenge a 12-year prison sentence in ...
Bahareh Hedayat’s Continued Detention Violates Iran’s Own Laws Prominent student activist Bahareh Hedayat should have been released by the end of July 2015 ...
The blatant denial of due process on display on the last day of Jason Rezaian’s trial on August 10, 2015, when his lawyer was not allowed to present arguments in response to the prosecutor, confirms the ...
Three Iranian-American prisoners, Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, Jason Rezaian, and Saeed Abedini. August 10, 2015— The Rouhani administration should immediately ...
Three people found guilty of rape were executed in public in the Golshahr neighborhood of the Iranian city of Karaj on July 29, 2015. Three people found guilty ...
Despite high hopes among journalists ...
The Iranian Judiciary carried out a double limb amputation sentence on August 4, 2015, where a convict's foot and fingers were amputated for robbery. This is cartoonist Touka Neyestani's take on the Iranian justice system's continued ...
Allegations against Dr. Ahmed Shaheed Unsubstantiated and Questioned by WikiLeaks Ever desperate to discredit the work and person of UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed, news agencies in Iran run by the ...
A senior adviser to opposition Green Movement leader Mehdi Karroubi was arrested upon his return to Iran six years after the controversial presidential elections that forced him to leave the country. Esmail Gerami Moghaddam, a former Member of Parliament and ...
Masoumeh Zia, a member of the Erfan-e Halgheh spiritual group, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she has been sentenced to a year in prison and 74 lashes for “disturbing public order” and taking part in a gathering protesting the ...
One of the conditions set for reaching a nuclear deal between the 5+1 countries and Iran is inspection of some of Iran's military facilities, an issue that has heightened sensitivity and opposition to a possible agreement ...
During a visit to the Tehran International Book Fair, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, asked a publisher whether "novels by Iranian authors have any takers?" Over the past four decades, the Islamic ...
In an interview with IRNA, Reza Mahboubi, Deputy Director of the Interior Ministry's Social Affairs Center said that five hundred thousand new inmates and detainees enter Iran's prison system each year. Official records indicate, ...
A young civil activist who has been held at Evin Prison since October 2014 has been sentenced to seven years in prison at her interrogator's urging, a source close to the case told the International ...
Officials hope Salam will lure users away from applications such as Viber and WhatsApp that are hugely popular in Iran. The Basij paramilitary organization, a subsidiary of the Revolutionary Guards ...
Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said this week that the Tehran Municipality is prepared to enter negotiations with the Iranian Judiciary to convert the Evin Prison complex in northwestern Tehran into a public park. ...
250 Activists and Journalists Sign Statement Calling for Her Release Iranian Judiciary authorities have advised the family of detained human rights activist Narges Mohammadi that her May 5, 2015 arrest and transfer to Evin Prison was in ...
Shahin Najafi German Police Address Threat While Website Offers Reward for Shahin Najafi's and His Fan's Death The announcement by an ultra-conservative website in Iran on May 1, 2015, of a reward ...
Baktash Abtin’s Case Expected to be Sent to Court Iran's Intelligence Ministry has repeatedly summoned and interrogated the well-known Iranian poet, documentary filmmaker, and member of the Board of Directors of the Iran Writers Association, Baktash Abtin, in ...
Formerly Imprisoned Journalists Challenge Iran Foreign Minister’s Remarks to Charlie Rose Astonished reactions to recent statements made by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif during a television interview with PBS’ Charlie Rose, in ...
Narges Mohammadi is Transferred to Evin Prison Civil rights activist and Deputy Director of the banned Defenders of Human Rights Center, Narges Mohammadi, was arrested at her home in Tehran in the early hours of May 5, ...
An appeals court in Tehran has sentenced six individuals to prison terms ranging from five to seven years for postings on their Facebook pages. Two additional individuals are facing as of yet unknown ...
