Nikan Khosravi and Arash Ilkhani, members of the Iranian heavy metal band Confess, have left Iran to escape prosecution and prison for their art. “We took a risk and left… ...
Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi announced on July 7, 2019, the development of an Iranian-made version of the Android operating system (OS) by a team of students at the… ...
June 26, 2019 — In response to soaring tensions between Iran and the United States, 116 Iranian human rights defenders and groups based inside and outside the country have signed… ...
Activists Say Limiting Acid Sales Will Help Reduce Attacks The Iranian Parliament has approved a bill that if enacted into law would allow courts to impose severe punishments including the… ...
After 30 people were arrested for practicing yoga inside a home in the Iranian city of Gorgan, several individuals based in the country told the Center for Human Rights in… ...
Basiji agents attacked several students at a peaceful protest against a newly enforced strict hijab enforcement policy at the University of Tehran. Members of… ...
Number of Women Political Prisoners Rising in Iran May 13, 2019 – A Tehran appeals court upheld a 7.5-year prison sentence against prominent political activist Hengameh Shahidi based on her… ...
Parisa Rafiei, a student at the University of Tehran, was pressured to take a “virginity test” while in state custody and then blocked from lodging a complaint against the inhumane… ...
Iran’s minister of education has called on the police to trace the “source” of what he described as “disturbing videos” of schoolchildren cheerfully dancing to a pop song by US-based… ...
…1, 2019, where she had gone to hand out the government’s first Award for Citizens Rights. The students were protesting a new law that enables university authorities to punish students… ...
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… ...
University students in Iran could be punished for engaging in online activities deemed by the government as “unethical” following the passage of an amendment to the Islamic Republic’s academic disciplinary… ...
Editor’s Note: On April 24, 2019, Judiciary Spokesman Gholam-Hossein Esmaili told reporters that all outstanding sentences in Mr. Taheri’s case have been rescinded according to Article 134 of Iran’s Islamic… ...
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… ...
The appointment by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei of a known human rights violator to head the country’s judiciary is a prelude to dark days ahead for human and civil… ...
The UN held a conference focused on improving access to inclusive education for children with disabilities on World Down Syndrome Day (2019)…. ...
Majid Shoja, Police Chief Three prisoners accused of killing law enforcement agents during drug raids were executed in the eastern Iranian province of South Khorasan, according to a press release… ...
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… ...
Education Minister Claims Strikers Wrongly Teaching Students How to Protest Thousands of teachers went on strike throughout Iran for the third time in less than a year March 3-5, 2019,… ...
A dual national academic who has taught at the University of Tehran and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium was arrested on “security charges,” a senior Iranian official revealed… ...
When Iran blocked the internet, tech experts in the U.S. tried to hack a solution. Here’s why they couldn’t Los Angeles Times 17 December, 2019 -run network, said Amir Rashidi,… ...
Abdolreza Fouladvand, the head of the Education Department in Tehran Responding to news of an autistic child being treated inhumanely in a school, Iranian officials blamed the child and the… ...
A concert by the popular Persian pop band Hoorosh was canceled by judicial order an hour before show time on February 20, 2019, in the city of Firouzeh, northeastern Iran,… ...
The appointment of Ebrahim Raisi, who participated in “death commissions” that ordered the extrajudicial executions of thousands of prisoners in Iran in 1988, as Iran’s next head of the judiciary,… ...
Human rights attorney Mostafa Tork Hamedani has been sentenced to six months imprisonment in Iran for allegedly slandering a former prosecutor, his lawyer Peyman Haj Mahmoud Attar announced on January… ...
