At least 21 (15 dual nationals, five foreign nationals and one foreign permanent resident) were known to be held in Iran (imprisoned, under house arrest, or prohibited from leaving the… ...
The head of Iran’s Department of Environment (DOE), Vice President Isa Kalantari, has publicly rejected claims by hardline judicial officials and media outlets that environmentalists detained in a crackdown by… ...
After banning the widely used Telegram messaging app, the Iranian government is once again deepening its censorship and suppression of internet use in the country by forcing government agencies to… ...
The wife of an Iranian Canadian academic who died in Iranian custody under suspicious circumstances in February 2018 was hospitalized for three days after exhibiting symptoms of a nervous breakdown…. ...
The fact-finding commission set up by President Hassan Rouhani to investigate the recent spate of detainee deaths in Iran has produced no results since it was formed nearly three months… ...
MP: Intelligence Ministry Has Rejected Espionage Claims More than 40 environmentalists, rangers and some of their relatives were arrested May 7-8, 2018, in the southern Iranian harbor city of Bandar… ...
Western-Educated Water Management Expert Left Iran After Being Arrested by IRGC’s Intelligence Organization Hardline media outlets in Iran with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have continued smearing… ...
Family and UN Officials Have Called for Investigation Into Claims Kavous Seyed-Emami Committed Suicide Two months have passed since Iranian Canadian academic and environmentalist Kavous Seyed-Emami died in Iran’s Evin… ...
Western-Educated Kaveh Madani Had Returned to Iran to “Help” Fix Country’s Environmental Issues Iranian officials and journalists have taken to social media to bemoan the resignation of the young and… ...
Death Certificate Makes No Mention of Officials’ Claim of “Stroke” The death in custody of a nursing student arrested for allegedly filming anti-state protests in the Iranian Province of Ilam… ...
JOINT PUBLIC STATEMENT 13 March 2018 The Iranian authorities should end their cruel campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of detainees who have died in detention under suspicious… ...
Lives of Seyed-Emami Family Thrown Into “Chaos and Terror” March 8, 2018—The Iranian government should immediately allow the wife of Iranian-Canadian academic and environmentalist Kavous Seyed-Emami to leave Iran as… ...
Gonabadi Dervish Detainee Died From “Blows to the Head,” Says Daughter March 6, 2018—The recent death of a devotee of Iran’s largest Sufi order in Tehran marks the fourth known… ...
Former Intelligence Minister Admits Iranian-Canadian Zahra Kazemi Was Killed in Evin Prison in 2003 Iran’s Parliamentary Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy is drafting a bill to separate the… ...
Karan Vafadari (left) with his son, Cyrus. Wife and Son of Karan Vafadari Fear For His Life After Suspicious Deaths in Prison March 1, 2018—The son of Iranian-American Karan Vafadari,… ...
…doubt that a commission created by President Hassan Rouhani would shed light on the recent death in state custody of Iranian-Canadian academic and environmentalist Kavous Seyed-Emami. “I hope the commission… ...
Approximately 170 members of the Sufi Gonabadi Order known in Iran as the Gonabadi Dervishes have been hospitalized in Tehran following clashes with the police and security forces, the Center… ...
A member of Iran’s Parliament has sharply condemned the country’s state-funded radio and TV broadcaster for airing a film that accused a prominent academic who died under suspicious circumstances in… ...
Two lawyers representing the family of recently deceased Kavous Seyed-Emami have issued a statement countering the claims made in a short film that was aired on a state-funded TV program… ...
Civil Rights Activists Also Detained February 16, 2018 – Attorney Mohammad Najafi has been held in detention in the Iranian city of Arak since January 15, and is facing eight… ...
Some Detainees Allowed Brief Contact With Their Families Environmental activists who were detained at the same time as Kavous Seyed-Emami—who recently died in custody—are being denied access to legal counsel,… ...
Kavous Seyed Emami and his son, Ramin. Ramin Seyed-Emami Says Family is Seeking Independent Investigation February 14, 2018 — The son of Kavous Seyed-Emami, an Iranian-Canadian academic and environmentalist who… ...
Distraught Family Under Enormous Pressure to Bury Body Quickly and Not Speak Publicly About the Death February 12, 2018—The family of the Iranian-Canadian academic, Kavous Seyed-Emami, whose death in custody… ...
A third detainee, 63-year old Iranian-Canadian professor Kavous Seyed-Emami, has died in custody in Iran, barely 17 days after his arrest and while under interrogations… ...
British-Iranian professor returns to UK after detention in Iran CNN-US, CNN.com International 26 December, 2018 statement said.\n\nOn Monday, the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran issued an open… ...
