Watered Down Domestic Violence Bill in Approval Stage Eight Years After Drafting in Iran
Hardliners Claim Bill Threatens Foundations of Iranian Families A heavily revised Bill for the Protection of ...
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Four Teachers Detained in Iran and Several Others Summoned to Court After Peaceful Sit-In
Security Forces Hijack Teachers’ Union Telegram Channel Four teachers who participated in a ...
Imprisoned Activist Farhad Meysami “Kept Alive” With IV Drip
Farhad Meysami, an imprisoned civil rights activist, has lost “40 ...
Great Tehran Penitentiary Imposes Information Blackout on Eight Sufi Detainees Held in Solitary Confinement
It has been more than a month since the wife of a Sufi Gonabadi ...
Kurdish Mechanic Sentenced to Death in Iran Despite Judge’s Acknowledgement of His Innocence
Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against a 25-year-old Kurdish auto mechanic on false charges, the mechanic’s lawyer told the ...
“Oppression Stops Life:” Narges Mohammadi Recounts Returning to An Empty Home
For the first time in more than three years, Iranian political prisoner Narges Mohammadi...
Three People Sentenced to Death in Iran as 32 Others Issued Harsh Sentences For Alleged Currency Hoarding
Unnamed “special courts for economic crimes” in Iran have sentenced three people to death and condemned ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Husband Charged With National Security Crimes For Anti-Compulsory Hijab Activism
Sotoudeh’s Sister Threatened With Arrest Imprisoned Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan...
These Four Educators Were Behind Bars in Iran on World Teachers’ Day 2018
Four teachers are currently behind bars in Iranian prisons for engaging in peaceful trade union activities, according to ...
Man Serving Seven Years in an Iranian Prison For His Facebook Posts Slapped With An Additional Three
Prisoner of conscience Soheil Arabi has been sentenced to three ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Lawyers Sue Judge Moghiseh For Unlawful Sentencing
Judge Moghiseh Notorious in Iran for Issuing Politically Motivated Sentences Payam Derafshan and Mohammad Moghimi, the lawyers representing detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, have sued Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, the head of Branch 28 of ...
120 Academics and Activists Join UN in Calling on Iran to Free Princeton Scholar Xiyue Wang
Xiyue Wang (right) with his son and wife. A group of 120 academics ...
Young Woman Put to Death in Iran for Crime Committed as Juvenile
Zeinab Sekaanvand is Fifth Known Juvenile Offender Executed in Past Year October 2, 2018 – The Center for Human Rights ...
Iranians Call For Freedom of Shiraz Councilman Who Tried to Secure Release of Detained Baha’is
Iranians have taken to social media to call for the freedom of Mehdi Hajati, a member ...
New UN Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman Requests Entry to Iran
UN SRs on Human Rights Banned From Visiting Since 2005 The new special rapporteur on the situation ...
Civil Rights Activist Farhad Meysami Barricades Himself in Evin Prison Clinic
Meysami Intensifies Hunger Strike and Calls For Release of Reza Khandan Imprisoned civil rights activist Farhad Meysami...
Iran Should Immediately Free Political Prisoner Arash Sadeghi on Medical Grounds
Denial of Medical Care to Political Prisoners Routine in Iran October 1, 2018 – Iranian authorities should immediately free political ...
Rouhani Falsely Claims Iran’s Imprisoned Dual Nationals Have Been Treated Fairly
Two months after a judge in Iran told imprisoned Iranian British dual national ...
Families of Kurdish Prisoners Held Incommunicado Fear Imminent Execution
Two Kurdish men, Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostad-Ghader, have been held incommunicado inside Iran’s Intelligence Ministry detention center in ...
17 Baha’is Arrested in One Month in Iran
Seventeen members of the Baha’i faith were arrested by agents of the Intelligence Ministry throughout ...
Political Prisoner Farhad Meysami Refusing Food and Medication in Desperate Protest
Political Prisoner Farhad Meysami has intensified his hunger strike against ...
For the First Time in Three Years, Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi Has Gone On Furlough
For the first time in more than three years, imprisoned human rights activist ...
Fourth Women’s Rights Activist Arrested in Iran in Less Than a Month
Women’s rights advocate Maryam Azad was arrested by security agents at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport on September ...
Hunger-Striking Activist Farhad Meysami Refuses To Be Hospitalized in Shackles
Despite his worsening condition, hunger-striking detainee Farhad Meysami refused to ...