85 Countries Vote to Adopt UN Resolution Urging Iran to Halt Widespread Human Rights Violations
Editor's Note: This resolution was passed December 17, 2018, with 84 voting for, 30 against and 67 in ...
Issues
Iranian Police Relocate Buried Corpse of Baha’i Woman Without Family’s Permission
Iranian authorities have relocated the buried corpse of a deceased member of the Baha’i faith to ...
Steel and Sugarcane Workers Rally in Ahvaz to Demand Unpaid Wages
Workers from the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (NSIG) in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, held ...
Iran Poised to Allow Military Full Control Over Internet, Messaging Apps
Bill Claims to Protect “Digital Borders” by Trampling Internet Freedom, Privacy After repeated ...
Attorney Must Be Released from Prison in Iran While Case is Under Appeal
Mohammad Najafi May Also Be Flogged Despite Health Concerns November 12, 2018—The attorney Mohammad Najafi is ...
Masoud Kazemi is the Second Journalist to Be Arrested in Tehran Within Two Weeks
Unidentified security agents detained journalist Masoud Kazemi in Tehran on November 5, 2018, making him the second ...
Iran’s Corruption Courts Handing Out Death Sentences While Trampling on Rights to a Fair Trial
Five Death Sentence Issued in Preliminary Rulings, Two Upheld by Supreme Court November 7, 2018—Special courts set up by ...
Isfahan Farmers Stage 40+ Day Protest Against Authorities’ Water “Mismanagement”
Hundreds of farmers have been camped out on the eastern and western ...
Sufi Prisoners Illegally Being Held With Dangerous Inmates in Tehran Penitentiary, Say Families
Dozens of Sufi prisoners are being illegally held in a ward for drug-addicted ...
Mehdi Hajati Banned From Shiraz City Council For Seeking Release of Detained Baha’is
Shiraz City Council member Mehdi Hajati made national news in Iran after he was arrested for seeking ...
Iranian Journalist Could Face Death Penalty For Allegedly “Insulting” Shia Prophet
Pouyan Khoshhal Fired From Reformist Ebtekar Newspaper Iranian journalist Pouyan Khoshhal has been arrested in Tehran and charged with a crime ...
15 HEPCO Workers in Iran Issued Suspended Prison, Lashing Sentences For Demanding Unpaid Wages
Fifteen staff members of the HEPCO manufacturing company in Markazi Province, ...
Iran Must Stop Imprisoning Lawyers for Defending Their Clients
Mohammad Najafi is the Seventh Attorney to Be Sent to Prison in Last Six Months, Six Remain Behind Bars October ...
Why Was Teachers’ Rights Activist Hashem Khastar Sent to a Mental Hospital With No Signs of Illness?
Khastar Was Tending to a Garden When “Plainclothes” Agents Arrested Him *Editor's Update: Teachers’ rights activist HashemKhastar was released November 10, 2018, from the ...
Iran Authorities Won’t Explain Why Teachers’ Rights Activist is Being Held Incommunicado in Mental Hospital
Iranian authorities have refused to allow the family of a teacher’s rights activist any access to him or ...
Lawyer Vows to Seek Justice After Prominent Iranian Activist’s Corpse Found Burned in Car
The corpse of Iranian activist Farshid Hakki ...
Discrimination and Inaccessibility Prevent Blind People From Obtaining Employment in Iran
Agency Tasked With Aiding People With Disabilities Fails to Fulfill Mandate Every October 15 is marked in Iran by ...
Iran Charges Environmentalists With National Security Crimes
Prosecutions Lacking Due Process Aimed at Deflecting Attention from Death of One of the Detainees October 23, 2018 – Nine ...
International Community Must Establish Mechanisms to Sell Humanitarian Goods to Iran, Iranian Government Must Ensure Affordability
Access to Medicines and Basic Foods in Iran Must Be Protected Economic Mismanagement and Sanctions Combine ...
Farhad Meysami’s “Life Is In Danger” Two Months Into Debilitating Hunger Strike
"He has been tied to the bed and injected with serum." Imprisoned rights activist Reza Khandan has warned Iranian ...