The lives of at least three imprisoned civil rights activists in Iran are perilously in danger after suffering health complications from weeks on hunger strike, while another has sewn his… ...
Civil rights defender Arash Sadeghi, who is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence for his peaceful activism, is in “critical and worrying” condition after 45 days on hunger strike in… ...
At least eight political prisoners are currently on life-threatening hunger strikes in Tehran and Karaj to demand better conditions and reviews of their unjust prison sentences. Even though at least… ...
Co-Defendants Forced to Unexpectedly Begin Prison Sentences Four months after her husband was unexpectedly forced to begin serving his 19-year prison sentence for his peaceful activism, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee has… ...
Former political prisoner Navid Kamran has been transported to Evin Prison in Tehran to begin serving a one-year prison sentence for “propaganda against the state” without a summons, an informed… ...
ICHRI- When Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently tried to side-step questions about the country’s abysmal human rights record, he yet again exposed his government’s inability—or reluctance—to face the… ...
Former student activist Arash Sadeghi unexpectedly began serving his 15-year prison sentence in Evin Prison on June 7, 2016 when he visited the jail to inquire about the official start… ...
…activist Arash Sadeghi for “collusion against national security,” “propaganda against the state,” “spreading lies in cyberspace” and “insulting the Founder of the Islamic Republic [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini].” Sadeghi’s sentence has… ...
Navid Kamran, a former political prisoner, has been sentenced to one year in prison without any new evidence supporting the charge against him of “propaganda against the state,” he told… ...
In a September 14 letter addressed to Iran’s Intelligence Minister, 250 Iranian journalists and political activists asked the Minister to review the troubling conditions of Arash Sadeghi, a former student… ...
In a September 14 letter addressed to Iran’s Intelligence Minister, 250 Iranian journalists and political activists asked the Minister to review the troubling conditions of Arash Sadeghi, a former student… ...
Following rumors that prisoner of conscience Arash Sadeghi had died in prison, his former lawyer told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he is alive, though the… ...
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran joins 16 other student and human rights organizations in a statement expressing deep concern for the right to education and academic freedom… ...
The Advocacy Council for the Right to Education (ACRE), also known as the Council for Defending the Right to Education, has published a new report detailing the increasing persecution of… ...
Iranian student association Daftar Tahkim Vahdat and alumni association Advar Tahkim Vahdat have joined with Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center,… ...
Back to table of contents This is a partial list of students deprived of higher education in the past six years. The true numbers are believed to be much higher…. ...
27 April 2010 Your Excellencies, The news of the Iranian government’s candidacy for membership in ECOSOC’s Commission on Status of Women (CSW) has disturbed women’s rights activists worldwide. According to… ...
