Defense Attorney: Firing Prison Officials Won’t Keep Political Prisoners Safe One month after political prisoner Alireza Shirmohammadali was murdered in the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary (GTCP) after being unlawfully held… ...
After gunmen killed 12 staff members of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo for the paper’s content in 2015, Iranian-American comedian Maz Jobrani joined colleagues in a video produced by… ...
Ratcliffe and His Wife Have Been on a Joint Hunger Strike for 11 Days and Counting Their Daughter Will Soon Have to Leave Iran to Start School in the UK… ...
Thirty scholars and researchers at the University of Tehran have called for the release of detained reporter Marzieh Amiri in a letter addressing Minister of Science, Research and Technology Mansour… ...
Alireza Shirmohammadali Was Unlawfully Held in Ward With Inmates Convicted of Dangerous Crimes He Had Gone on Hunger Strike Against Unsafe Prison Conditions Three Months Before His Death The 21-Year-Old… ...
As a girl visiting her birth country of Iran, British actress Nazanin Boniadi got a taste of the severely restricted rights women there live with on a daily basis. That… ...
Defense Attorney Imprisoned for Social Media Posts June 5, 2019 – Amirsalar Davoudi has become the third known defense attorney to be sent to prison in Iran for his peaceful… ...
Eight months after she was arrested for peacefully protesting Iran’s compulsory hijab law, Vida Movahedi was released from prison on May 26, 2019, her lawyer announced. “According to judicial authorities,… ...
Prominent Members of Iranian Writers Association Each Sentenced to Six Years Behind Bars May 17, 2019—In a glaring repudiation of freedom of expression and the right to peaceful dissent, the… ...
Basiji agents attacked several students at a peaceful protest against a newly enforced strict hijab enforcement policy at the University of Tehran. Members of… ...
An adviser to President Hassan Rouhani was met with protesters at Allameh Tabataba’i University in Tehran on May 1, 2019, where she had gone to hand out the government’s first… ...
…and May 2 (Iran’s Teachers’ Day) remain in detention without access to legal counsel, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. The protests, which also occurred in… ...
Iran’s Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi has appointed Ali Alghasi-Mehr as the new prosecutor general of Tehran. Two months after being appointed by the supreme leader as Iran’s new chief justice,… ...
…of the Intelligence Ministry since she was arrested while covering a Labor Day protest in Tehran on May 1, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Amiri… ...
Prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi was recently taken from Evin Prison to a hospital in Tehran where she was told she needed urgent treatment for several issues but was… ...
A peaceful demonstration by people demanding workers’ rights in front of Iran’s Parliament in Tehran on International Workers’ Day, May 1, 2019, was violently repressed after police and plainclothes security… ...
“The authorities…refuse to accept the fact that they have condemned a woman lawyer to suffer the inhuman act of flogging and a long prison sentence because of activities that were… ...
Movahedi Has Served Five Months of Her One-Year Prison Sentence Vida Movahedi, the woman whose public display of peaceful protest against Iran’s compulsory hijab law was captured in a viral… ...
The Iranian government and judiciary are intensifying a nationwide crackdown on civil society and beyond to stifle any form of dissent, Karim Lahidji, a prominent Iranian human rights attorney now… ...
Supporters Barred from Court Room *Editor’s note: Mojtaba Dadashi was taken to prison in the city of Sabzevar on April 13, 2019, to begin serving a three-year sentence, a source… ...
Rezaee Struggling to Financially Support Family from Prison Labor activist Mahmoud Arsham Rezaee has been issued a lengthy prison sentence at a trial that unlawfully took place without prior notice… ...
Lengthy Prison Terms Shows Effort to Deter Rights Advocacy (New York, March 20, 2019) – The prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s draconian sentence for her peaceful activism shows the… ...
Sentences Range from Six to 26 Years Including Lashes March 15, 2019 – The mass conviction of 23 dervishes of the Sufi Gonabadi Order to prison terms of up to… ...
Iranian students clash with riot police during an anti-government protest around the University of Tehran, Iran, 30 December 2017. Living conditions difficult for many Iranians Expert calls for release of… ...
Despite the apparent end of investigations by judicial authorities against labor activist Esmail Bakhshi and freelance reporter Sepideh Qoliyan, the two have not been offered bail and continue to be… ...
