Police in the Iranian city of Kazeroon have admitted killing a farmer at a local protest against water resources in the region. “After several warnings to the crowd to disperse,… ...
…after he was detained in the Iranian city of Iranshahr in Sistan and Baluchistan Province. Bozorgzadeh was taken into custody on June 17, 2018, during a rally to protest the… ...
…Tyranny July 10, 2018—Shaparak Shajarizadeh, one of the women who took her headscarf off in public during the ongoing protests against forced hijab that have roiled Iran over the last… ...
Authorities Ramp Up Crackdown on Social Media July 9, 2018—Forcing a teenage girl to confess on state TV for the “crime” of posting a video of herself dancing on Instagram… ...
…across Iran have issued a statement sharply criticizing President Hassan Rouhani for a crackdown led by his Intelligence Ministry on students who were arrested during nationwide protests in December 2017… ...
…Free Detainees Four followers of Iran’s persecuted Sufi Gonabadi Order have been sentenced to five years in prison each after being arrested at a protest in Tehran in February 2018…. ...
Shots were reportedly fired during protests over water shortages in the southwestern city of Khorramshahr in Iran’s Khuzestan Province but the Interior Ministry has denied any fatalities. Khuzestan, home to… ...
Iranian civil rights activist and political prisoner Arash Sadeghi is being denied medical leave to undergo testing for a bone tumor that could be cancerous. A source with knowledge of… ...
Tehran Demonstrations Against Inflation Turn Political as They Spread to Other Cities The Chief Justice of Iran Sadegh Larijani has threatened the merchants who have been protesting in Tehran against… ...
Detained Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has refused to post bail in protest against the charges that have been laid against her. “Nasrin believes the bail amount is not… ...
Iranian Women Allowed Into Tehran’s Azadi Stadium to Watch World Cup Screening But Official Ban Persists The presence of women in Iran’s Azadi Stadium in Tehran for the first time… ...
Human Rights Lawyer Threatens to Remove Hijab in Protest After Supporters Beaten Outside Prison Detained Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is facing two national security charges for representing women… ...
Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh previously served three years in prison for her defense of dissidents, activists, journalists and minorities in Iran after being convicted of national security charges…. ...
Eight detained members of the Sufi Gonabadi Order have gone on hunger strike at the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) to protest prison conditions and the state’s ongoing restrictions on the… ...
Civil rights activist Shima Babaei: “They said the hijab is the law and I must respect it. I told them it’s a bad law and I’m protesting against it in… ...
Weakened by his hunger strike, prisoner of conscience Hamidreza Amini was transferred to a hospital in hand and ankle cuffs but was returned to prison before the treatment was completed…. ...
…the judiciary designating 20 state-approved lawyers to exclusively represent detainees held on politically motivated charges. “A number of lawyers have said they are ready to hold a protest sit-in if… ...
Several Iranian celebrities publicly turned down President Hassan Rouhani’s invitation to attend a Ramadan “iftar” dinner scheduled for May 30, 2018, in protest against social and economic issues with the… ...
Fifteen negotiators representing protesting farmers in the southern Iranian province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad were arrested on May 29, 2018, as they showed up for talks over a water dispute…. ...
Bullets fired by police in the city of Kazeroon, Fars Province, killed two men—Ali Mohammadian and Azad Omid Reza Yousefian—during protests there in May 2018 the Center for Human Rights… ...
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… ...
Political prisoner Mohammad Ali (Pirooz) Mansouri, eligible for conditional release after spending more than a decade in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr and Evin Prisons, has been slapped with additional time after… ...
Shaparak Shajarizadeh has been arrested again for allegedly allowing her hair to show in public in Iran. Her lawyer, prominent human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, called the ongoing arrests of… ...
Arrests include former political prisoner Kamran Ayazi and Maryam Shariatmadari More than 10 people were arrested on April 25, 2018 south of Tehran, where construction crews discovered a mummified body,… ...
A week before International Labor Day, when labor rights groups typically hold demonstrations around the world, at least 13 labor activists have been summoned in Iran’s Western provinces of Khuzestan… ...
