Renewed Pressure in Iran to Block Instagram After Activist’s Post About Torture Makes Headlines
A labor activist’s widely read Instagram post alleging he was tortured ...
Tag : Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi
September 27, 2018
For the First Time in Three Years, Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi Has Gone On Furlough
For the first time in more than three years, imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi...
September 12, 2018
Let My Daughter See Her Sick Father, Pleads Narges Mohammadi’s Mother
The mother of imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has urged Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi to allow the ...
July 12, 2018
Detained Human Rights Lawyer Writes Defiant Letter to Tehran Prosecutor
Nasrin Sotoudeh: “Women Have Decided to Rule Over Their Own Bodies” Prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has written a stinging ...
June 28, 2018
Iranian Journalist and Political Activist Detained For Criticizing Iran’s Judiciary
Well-known journalist and political activist Hengameh Shahidi was arrested upon leaving a hospital in Iran’s Kish ...
March 14, 2018
Men Detained at Women’s Rights Rally in Iran Remain Behind Bars After Female Detainees Released
Women celebrate their release from Gharchak Prison on March 12. The women who were detained at a women’s rights demonstration in front of the Iranian Labor Ministry in Tehran on ...
March 10, 2018
Conservative Iranian Officials Outraged That Little Girls Were Allowed to Dance at Women’s Day Event
Iran’s ultra-conservative prosecutor general has demanded that the organizers of a Women’s Day event in the capital city be ...
March 10, 2018
Woman Who Removed Headscarf in Public Sentenced to Prison as Supreme Leader Tries to Diminish Hijab Protests
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has described recent demonstrations in Iran against the country’s compulsory hijab rule as “small ...
December 19, 2017
Tehran Prosecutor’s Office Ignores Imprisoned Iranian-Austrian’s Request for Back Operation
The Tehran prosecutor's office has ignored a request by imprisoned Iranian-Austrian dual national Kamran Ghaderi...
December 1, 2017
Spokesman Berates Former President Ahmadinejad After He Accuses Judiciary of Corruption
The spokesman for Iran’s judiciary has publicly spoken out against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after the former president accused the judiciary of corruption ...
November 3, 2017
Thousands of Iranian Death Row Inmates to Receive Sentence Reviews Under Amended Drug Law
Alleged drug traffickers stand in front of narcotics after a police operation. Thousands of Iranians ...
August 27, 2017
Tehran Prosecutor Calls Hunger Strikes “Threats” Amid Mass Strike at Rajaee Shahr Prison
“Prisoners must endure their punishment to the fullest” Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi has described hungers strikes undertaken by prisoners as “threats” that the judicial system ...
December 30, 2016
Hardline Tehran Prosecutor Advocates Harsher Penalty for Mixed-Gender Parties
Tehran’s hardline prosecutor general has announced that people caught at mixed-gender parties, especially celebrity artists and athletes, along with those caught consuming alcohol, ...