Conditions Harshened for 82-year-old Mehdi Karroubi After He Criticized Supreme Leader After more than nine years under extrajudicial house arrest, the health of Iran’s 82-year-old opposition leader, Mehdi Karroubi, is deteriorating dramatically, the Center for Human Rights ...
Appeals Court Upholds Sentence against Shahnaz Akmali Shahnaz Akmali, the mother of a protester who was killed in a pro-democracy rally, must serve a year in prison, an Appeals Court in Iran has decided, for her attempts ...
Well-known journalist and political activist Hengameh Shahidi was arrested upon leaving a hospital in Iran’s Kish Island after strongly criticizing state policies on social media and in interviews with foreign media. ...
Conservatives Increasingly Endorsing Twitter as Propaganda Front Six Iranian ministers and two members of Parliament (MPs) have sent a letter to President Hassan Rouhani calling on him to lift the state’s ban on Twitter. The call comes ...
Two prisoners of conscience who have been behind bars for nearly a decade in Tehran’s Evin Prison have been denied medical leave despite suffering from serious illnesses, a ...
As details emerged about the number of casualties and arrests that occurred during the first six days of the anti-government demonstrations that began in Iran on December 28, 2017, ...
Protests flared across several Iranian cities during the last week of December 2017 as citizens faced off with security forces to demand better living circumstances. Hardline officials meanwhile blamed the Rouhani government and foreign powers ...
The spokesman for Iran’s judiciary has publicly spoken out against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after the former president accused the judiciary of corruption in a public speech. At a press conference on November 28, 2017, ...
Websites affiliated with former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were blocked in Iran and the country’s most widely used state-approved video-sharing site has barred users from accessing Ahmadinejad-related content after the controversial politician criticized state officials in a recent speech ...
Former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi has received a two-year prison sentence for being an “accomplice to murder” and the “illegal detention” of Mohsen Rouholamini, who died after being picked up by security forces in Tehran during the widespread protests of 2009 ...
Former President Mohammad Khatami. Iran’s former reformist President Mohammad Khatami has been banned from making public appearances and receiving political guests for three months. The ban, first reported on October 5, 2017, ...
The government of President Hassan Rouhani continues to avoid taking the initiative to resolve the six-and-a-half-year extrajudicial house arrests of ailing opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi, Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife ...
The spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, has publicly rejected a report that security agents will leave detained opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi’s home in northern Tehran as “total lies.” “Mr. Ejei is confusing the issue,” ...
Now that detained political leader Mehdi Karroubi has ended his life-threatening hunger strike, all eyes are on President Hassan Rouhani to see if he will honor Karroubi’s second demand: a public trial. The 79-year-old cleric agreed to ...
August 16, 2017—The Iranian judiciary must immediately release ailing political leaders Mehdi Karroubi, who is currently on hunger strike, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Karroubi (79), who ...
Karroubi and Mousavi’s Health in Peril After Six Years of Forced Isolation August 2, 2017—More than six years into their extrajudicial house arrest, the health of leading Iranian political opposition leaders is in grave danger, renewing urgent calls ...
Hassan Rouhani was re-elected as president of Iran in May 2017 largely on the basis of his support for human rights and Iranians’ perceptions that he would do more to improve civil and political rights in the country than his rivals. He should now deliver ...
Some Conservatives Side With Reformist Leader Khatami Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s refusal of an offer to achieve “national reconciliation” in Iran by ending the six-year extrajudicial house arrests of ...
Shahnaz Akmali, the mother of a well-known victim of the Islamic Republic’s violent crackdown on the Green Movement, which grew out of the widespread ...
Minister of Justice, Mostafa Pourmohammadi Three days after President Hassan Rouhani suggested the possibility of a legal solution to the long-running house arrest of Iran’s former ...
An open letter signed by the Karroubi family and published on November 29, 2014, states that during their last meeting with Green Movement leader Mehdi Karroubi, he “explicitly and clearly criticized the lack of ...
Blog/Note: Will the secret of the 1988 mass executions of political prisoners be revealed soon? Will thousands of families who lost their loved ones in the span of just a few months know who ordered the executions and who carried them out? Will those responsible ...
