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 ...
Prisoner of conscience Amir Amirgholi, who has appealed the 21-year prison sentence he was issued earlier this year in 2016, has been denied medical ...
Mohammad Ali Taheri, an imprisoned spiritual leader who was supposed to be freed more than two months ago after completing ...
The imprisoned teachers’ union activist, Mahmoud Beheshti Langroudi, has been released from hospital and sent home after a 22-day ...
“I have no idea how a young woman with a baby could be a danger to national security.” The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen ...
Teacher’s Rights Activist Hospitalized The imprisoned spokesman of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association, Mahmoud Beheshti ...
The family of a nine-year-old girl from a village in northwestern Iran has vowed to pursue legal action against the ...
Photo caption: Ziaollah Motearefi’s farm was featured in the documentary film, "The Green Desert,” which was posted on YouTube on February 29, 2016. Towards the end ...
Abdolfattah Soltani’s Condition Deteriorates; Needs Urgent Hospitalization Abdolfattah Soltani, an imprisoned human rights lawyer, requires ...
Tactics Meant to Sow Fear among Independent Journalists in Wake of Reformists’ Parliamentary Election Gains Iran’s Intelligence Ministry officials are increasingly harassing ...
Atena Faraghdani Served 18 Months for Her Facebook Cartoons Artist and civil rights activist Atena Faraghdani ...
Teacher’s rights activist Rassoul Bodaghi, who was imprisoned in Iran for six years for his peaceful labor activism, was ...
Mother of Afarin Chitsaz’s Describes Brutality Aimed at Forcing a “Confession” The mother of imprisoned newspaper columnist ...
Mahmoud Beheshti Langroudi, a teacher and activist who was sentenced to five years in prison and an additional four-year suspended prison ...
Brother of Journalist Sentenced to Five Years in Prison In a long-established practice of targeting the family members of ...
Rights activists Omid Alishenas, Atena Daemi, Ali Nouri and Aso Rostami have ...
Three journalists and the brother of a journalist have been given prison sentences ranging from five to ten years after spending months in detention, ...
Deploying 7,000 undercover morality police in Tehran contradicts the principle of the presumption of innocence, Iranian lawyer Ali Rambod told the International Campaign for Human Rights ...
IRGC Actively Recruiting Technical Experts to Staff New Hacking Team April 26, 2016—Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, who have long waged cyber attacks against the country’s ...
The trial of human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, postponed four times since its original date of May 3, 2015, finally began on ...
Ebrahim Maddadi, a labor activist and leading member of Tehran’s bus drivers’ union, is awaiting sentencing after standing trial on April 16, 2016. Arrested ...
Omid Kokabee Could Lose His Life After Years of Denied Medical Care in Iran Prison Omid Kokabee, the young physicist who was imprisoned ...
Prisoner of conscience Atena Faraghdani’s sentence has been reduced on appeal from 12 years and nine months ...
Former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who has been living under extrajudicial house arrest for over five years for contesting the result of Iran’s widely ...
“Do not forget the spilt blood of Iranian youths or the young and old prisoners suffering in small and large prisons in this country ...
