Reza Khandan and Farhad Meysami Denied Right to a Public Trial Update: On August 11, 2019, the Appeals Court confirmed Farhad Meysami’s six-year prison sentence and reduced the two-year ban on his online activities ...
Human rights attorney Mostafa Tork Hamedani has been sentenced to six months imprisonment in Iran for allegedly slandering a former prosecutor, his lawyer Peyman Haj Mahmoud Attar announced on January 15, ...
Former political prisoner Ali (Amir) Amirgholi has become the fourth journalist working for the Gam independent online news outlet to be arrested in Iran in recent weeks. A ...
Iranian satirist Keyomars Marzban, who has been detained in Iran since August 2018, is due to face trial for the charges of “propaganda against the state” and ...
Defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh continues to be denied family visits in Iran’s Evin Prison where she has been held on trumped-up ...
Iran Must Re-Open an Independent and Impartial Investigation into Labor Activist’s Abuse Multiple Cases of Alleged Torture Must Be Thoroughly Investigated January 17, 2018—After a brief and deeply flawed investigation lacking ...
UN human rights experts* have today called on Iran to urgently provide Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Narges Mohammadi access to appropriate health care, and reiterated calls for their immediate release. “We urge the Government ...
Jeremy Hunt Summons Ambassador to Tehran Following Revelations Iran Pressured Dual National to Spy UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt summoned Iran’s ambassador to Tehran on January ...
False Claims Meant to Divert Attention from “Shame” of Eight Years of House Arrest Without Trial A son of the 2009 presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi...
Authorities Revoke Phone Privileges, Reduce Food Rations in Evin Prison’s Women’s Ward Two political prisoners held in the same ward as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran’s Evin Prison have given up ...
Esmail Bakhshi’s lawyer says her client is under intense pressure to retract statements about his torture Labor activist Esmail Bakhshi’s public letter in which he revealed his ...
Revolutionary Court Blocked Hamed Aynehvand From Using Lawyer of His Choice Political journalist Hamed Aynehvand has been sentenced to six years in prison without the presence of his ...
Held Without Access to Lawyer, Bakhshi Beaten During 25-Day Detention January 4, 2018—The beating and torture of the labor activist Smaeil Bakhshi (also spelled Esmail Bakhshi), ...
Prisoner of conscience Alireza Tavakoli, currently imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison for his social media postings, is hunger striking to be “transferred ...
Imprisoned political activist Hengameh Shahidi has been held in solitary confinement for six months with extremely limited access to a lawyer since June 26, 2018, the day she ...
The food served at the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) is unsanitary and has been found to contain rodent feces, making some prisoners sick, the wife of a political ...
Teachers who were peacefully protesting a fellow colleague’s heavy prison sentence were met with tear gas by anti-riot units who made “several arrests” in the Iranian city of Isfahan on December 27, 2018, a trade unionist told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). On ...
Mohammad Najafi has been in Arak Central Prison since October 2018 serving a three-year sentence (currently being appealed) for informing media outlets that a local police station ...
“They told me, ‘If you want to live in peace, stop writing, stop your activities.’” Amir Chamani Taken to Tabriz Prison, Lawyer Not Notified In a continuing assault on freedom of speech—particularly the peaceful ...
At Least 31 Steel Workers Remain Detained Eleven workers detained during protests by employees of the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (INSIG) in southwestern Iran between December 17-18, 2018, were released on bail December 19, but at least 31 others remain behind ...
“He’s Just a Businessman Who Has Done Nothing Wrong” Kamran Ghaderi, an Iranian-Austrian dual national imprisoned in Iran since January 2016, is the latest in a ...
Iranian political prisoner Narges Mohammadi has written an open letter calling on Jafari Dowlatabadi, the prosecutor general of Tehran, to stop denying her medical treatment. ...
The former director of NASA's Solar System Exploration program, Dr. Firouz Naderi, has joined the international call for Iran to release all political prisoners including Nasrin Sotoudeh, Farhad Meysami and Reza Khandan, who were all imprisoned this year in Iran for peacefully advocating human and women's rights. ...
Latest Delay: Guardian Council Objects to Punishing Negligent Parents Parliament’s Judiciary Commission Must Find Compromise Language on Parental Neglect to Ensure Passage of Bill “Each day’s delay in its ratification ...
15 Petrochemical Workers Sentenced to Prison, Flogging for Protesting Unpaid Wages in Latest Ruling Unpaid Wages Violates Iranian Law, Flogging Violates International Law December 13, 2018—In yet another ruling punishing workers for ...