December 20, 2018

Open Letter From Evin Prison: Narges Mohammadi Calls on Tehran Prosecutor to Stop Denying Her Medical Treatment

Iranian political prisoner Narges Mohammadi has written an open letter calling on Jafari Dowlatabadi, the prosecutor general of Tehran, to stop denying her medical treatment. According to her letter, Mohammadi has not ...

June 27, 2018

Widow Hospitalized After IRGC Storms Home of Iranian Canadian Who Died in Iranian State Custody

Tehran Prosecutor Ordered Raid to Gather Footage For a “Film” The widow of an Iranian Canadian environmentalist who recently died in state custody in Iran has been hospitalized in Tehran after being interrogated for hours by agents who ...

June 26, 2018

Iran’s Judiciary Chief Threatens Protesting Merchants With Execution as Protests Continue

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 the declining value of the rial since June ...

May 23, 2018

Iranian VP Refutes Espionage Claims Against Detained Environmentalists, Calls for Their Release

The head of Iran’s Department of Environment (DOE), Vice President Isa Kalantari, has publicly rejected claims by hardline judicial officials and media outlets that environmentalists detained in a crackdown by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ...