Christian convert Ebrahim Firoozi and political activist Saeed Shirzad. Three prisoners in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr Prison are facing new charges for participating in a mass protest at the prison in… ...
Three political prisoners serving life sentences have been transferred from Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, to Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, 444 miles away, without… ...
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry pressed charges against activist Parastou Forouhar based on a photo of one of her artworks that created a stir on social media, she told the Center for… ...
Medical Staff Refuse to Treat Golipour, Saying He’s Close to Falling Into a Coma Alireza Golipour has been deemed unfit to stay in Evin Prison by seven doctors more than… ...
The governor of Tehran Province, Mohammad Hossein Moghimi, has erroneously declared that since President Hassan Rouhani took office in 2013, protests in Iran’s capital city have been tolerated without the… ...
Labor activist Mahmoud Salehi was detained by security agents on October 28, 2017, while undergoing dialysis at a hospital in the city of Saqqez, in Iran’s Kurdistan Province. His son,… ...
…in Solitary Confinement A court in Tehran has sentenced Shahnaz Akmali, the mother of a well-known victim of the state crackdown on the protests against Iran’s 2009 presidential election, to… ...
Students protest against President Rouhani’s nominee to head the Science Ministry, Mansour Gholami, at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran. Rouhani’s Previous Nominees Rejected by Supreme… ...
Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident who has been imprisoned in Iran since April 2016, was sentenced to death for “moharebeh” (enmity with God) based on a forced confession, the… ...
Mohammad Nazari has been imprisoned in Iran since 1994 for his membership in a separatist group. The life of one of Iran’s longest serving political prisoners, Mohammad Nazari, could “end… ...
Arash Sadeghi (right) and Soheil Arabi in the courtyard of Evin Prison. Lawyer: Arash Sadeghi’s transfer was illegal. A man serving a 15-year prison sentence for peacefully advocating human rights… ...
Imprisoned prominent human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has called on members of Iran’s Parliament to investigate and end the “illegal” practice of solitary confinement of prisoners. “As a defender of… ...
…to be freed in less than a month has gone on a hunger strike to protest his continued incarceration. “Ehsan Mazandarani has silently started a hunger strike to protest his… ...
A photo of Mohammad Jarrahi visiting the grave of fellow labor activist Shahrokh Zamani,… ...
Esmail Abdi is serving a six-year prison sentence for peacefully advocating for teachers’ rights in Iran. Iran’s judiciary has denied a request for a review of the heavy prison sentence… ...
Mahdieh Golru: “I have lost hope along with the years of my youth.” Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has blocked formerly imprisoned civil rights activist Mahdieh Golru from attending Alzahra University in… ...
Update: With assurances from a senior official, labor activist Reza Shahabi ended his hunger strike in Rajaee Shahr Prison on September 27, 2017, after nearly two months of refusing food…. ...
Imprisoned teacher’s rights activist Mahmoud Beheshti-Langroudi is facing 14 years behind bars in Iran after the confirmation of his latest prison sentence, his son told the Center for Human Rights… ...
Imprisoned children’s rights activist Atena Daemi has been denied a major operation after demanding that the authorities fulfill their promise to allow her to receive the surgery without handcuffs and… ...
“Poor workers don’t deserve to be beaten.” Anti-riot police forces stormed peaceful protests by workers at two industrial units in Arak, the capital of Iran’s Central Province, on September 19,… ...
Heydar Faraji (right) and Ghader Bahrami were shot to death allegedly without warning by Iranian border guards in September 2017. The family member of one… ...
Four political prisoners in Iran’s Rajaee Shahr Prison are being denied medical care after refusing food for more than one month to peacefully demand that the Iranian judiciary respect their… ...
Every day something bad is happening to him.” Nastaran Naimi, the wife of Soheil Arabi, who was imprisoned in Iran for his Facebook posts, was fired after the Islamic Revolutionary… ...
Peaceful Protestors With Roses Arrested Outside Prison At least two political prisoners remain on the hunger strike they began on July 30, 2017, along with more than a dozen inmates… ...
Raheleh Rahemipour has been arrested by the Intelligence Ministry in Iran for refusing to give up her search for answers about her missing brother and infant niece, whom Rahemipour says… ...
