Imprisoned Iranian-American Art Dealer Accuses IRGC of Judicial Interference
Karan Vafadari: “I don’t think we will be justly treated ...
Unfair Trials
Woman Arrested For Removing Hijab in Tehran Refuses to Repent Despite Facing 10 Years in Prison
Narges Hosseini, who was arrested for protesting Iran’s compulsory hijab, refused to appear in court to face charges punishable by up to 10 years, including “encouraging immorality or prostitution.” “Ms. Hosseini ...
Iranian Hardline Cleric Says Protesters Should be Sentenced to Death
A Friday prayer leader in Tehran has called for the death penalty to be issued to citizens who participated in the weeklong protests that erupted across Iran in December 2017. ...
Shirin Ebadi: Bill That Restricts Protests to Designated Areas in Iran Adds “More Limits” to Freedom of Speech
A proposed bill aimed at designating public spaces in Iran for protests will lead to “more limits” on the people’s right to voice their demands, Nobel Peace Prize laureate ...
Hardline Judge Keeps Iranian-American and Wife in Jail by Imposing $27 Million Bail
Family Meets Bail for Wife, but Judge Still Refuses to Release Her The judge presiding over the case of imprisoned Iranian-American gallery owners Karan Vafadari and his wife Afarin ...
Parliamentary Delegation Visiting Evin Prison Told 4,534 Were Arrested in Iranian Protests
More than a month after thousands of people were arrested in Iran after weeklong protests erupted across the country beginning in December 2017, 11 Members of Parliament (MPs) were allowed to ...
Opposition Leader Mehdi Karroubi Urges Supreme Leader to “Create the Grounds For Reform”
In a letter written under house arrest, opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has warned Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to heed the signs of ...
Iranian-American Zoroastrian Denounces 27-Year “Unjust” Prison Sentence in Letter From Prison
Update: The couple's sentence was later reduced to 15 years for Karan Vafadari and 10 years for Afarin Nayssari. In a letter from Evin Prison obtained by the Center for Human ...
Iranian Pastor’s Wife Sentenced to Five Years in Prison For “Acting Against National Security”
Judge Ahmadzadeh Has Sentenced 16 Christians to Prison In Less Than A Year Shamiram Isavi, the wife of Victor Bet Tamraz, who formerly led Iran’s Assyrian Pentecostal Church, has been sentenced ...
Iranian Sunni Cleric Faces Travel Restrictions: “It All Comes Down to Intolerance”
Iranian Officials have imposed travel restrictions on one of the ...
Activists Atena Daemi and Golrokh Iraee Beaten and Transferred to Different Prison
Political prisoners Atena Daemi and Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee were beaten by agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in Tehran’s Evin Prison and transferred ...
40 Iranian MPs Call for Immediate Release of Detained University Students
Forty Iranian lawmakers have written to President Hassan Rouhani and Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani urging them to immediately release student detainees who were arrested during the weeklong protests that hit several ...
More than 150 Detained Iranian Protesters Have Requested “Pills,” Reports Committee
Credible Sources Report That Detainees Told to Request Pills to Speed Up Release More than 150 people detained in the protests that broke out in ...
Detainees Arrested in Iranian Protests Facing Charges That Carry Death Penalty
Some detainees arrested in the protests that broke out in Iran’s Hamadan and Khuzestan provinces in December 2017 are facing charges that are punishable by death, the Center for Human ...
Unable to Locate Activists, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Illegally Detains Their Family Members
The Iranian Intelligence Ministry has illegally detained or summoned close relatives of at least three activists from northwestern Iran since anti-government protests erupted in the region in late ...
Latest Victim of Repressed Iranian Protests Identified as 24-Year-Old Man From Karaj
“They Buried Him Like He Was a Criminal” Hassan Shahin Tarkashvand, a 24-year-old man from the city of Karaj, has been identified as another victim of the state-repressed protests in Iran ...
155 Lawyers Call on Iran’s Judiciary to Stop Restricting Detainees’ Access to Counsel
In the wake of a massive influx of detainees following protests in several Iranian cities at the end of 2017, more than 150 lawyers have called on Judiciary Chief Sadegh ...
Lawyer “Worried” About Detained Iranian Protesters After Officials Claim Two Committed Suicide
A lawyer representing the families of two detainees who died in custody in Iran after being arrested during protests that erupted across the ...
Iranian Protesters Who Died in Custody Accused of Being Drug Addicts
Iranian officials have accused two Iranian protesters who died in custody of committing suicide and of being drug addicts. But a prominent human rights lawyer and a reformist MP from Tehran have stated that there's much more to ...
Death Sentence Against Swedish Resident Ahmadreza Djalali Under Review
Branch 33 of the Supreme Court in Iran is reviewing the death sentence issued to Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-born academic and Swedish resident accused ...
Second Name Revealed in Shooting Deaths Amid Sanandaj Protests
Intelligence Ministry Pressures Families To Refuse Media Interviews Kianoosh Zandi, 24, has been named the second victim in a shooting case involving conflicting accounts over how and why two young men ...
Man’s Hand Amputated as Punishment for Theft Conviction in Mashhad
A man’s hand was amputated with a guillotine on January 17, 2018, in Central Prison in the city of Mashhad, northeastern Iran, according to a local daily newspaper. “After the sentence was ...
Police Arrest Three Gonabadi Dervishes and Injure 10 at Peaceful Rally For Detained Devotees
Ten members of a persecuted Sufi order in Iran were injured and three others arrested in the city of Kowar, Fars Province after police attacked their rally in support of detained fellow devotees on January 14, 2018. Kasra Nouri, a ...
Detained Iranian Protesters Told to Admit Being Drug Addicts to Speed Up Release
Vahid Heydari (right) and Sina Ghanbari were killed in the detention center Detainees arrested during the ...
Intelligence Ministry Forces Father of Slain Protester to Repeat Authorities’ Version of Events on State TV
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry coerced the father of a dead protester into claiming in front of a camera that his son was killed during an armed confrontation with security forces, the ...