Government of Iran Has Long Targeted its Critics Abroad for Assassination August 15, 2022 – The heinous attack in New York on the author Salman Rushdie, in which a knifeman inflicted life-threatening injuries, stems from the Islamic Republic’s longstanding policy of ...
Abtin, Jailed for Dissent, is Second Political Prisoner to Die in Iran in First Week of 2022 January 8, 2022 – The death of Iranian poet Baktash Abtin today in Tehran after contracting COVID-19 in ...
Baktash Abtin (left) and Adel Kianpour (right). Concerns Mount for Prisoners Under Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i COVID-19 in Crowded Jails and Routine Denial of Medical Treatment Put All at Risk Jan 3, 2022 ...
Arash Ganji, a translator and secretary of the board of directors of the Iranian Writers Association (IWA), must serve five years of an 11-year prison sentence that was ...
Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced writer, translator, and the secretary of the board of directors of the Iranian Writers' Association, Arash Ganji, to 11 years in prison. Ganji was convicted of ...
Poet Amin Moradi Detained, Arash Ganji Released on Bail Manufactured National Security Charges Used to Silence Free Expression In yet another blow to the Iranian Writers Association, an independent group formed in Iran in 1968 to fight ...
Six-year and Three-year Sentences Begin for Senior Iranian Writers Association Members Lawyer: “These sentences are without legal and judicial merit. They are only political rulings” Prominent members of the Iranian Writers Association (IWA) have begun serving prison sentences ...
Prominent Members of Iranian Writers Association Each Sentenced to Six Years Behind Bars May 17, 2019—In a glaring repudiation of freedom of expression and the right to peaceful dissent, the Iranian judiciary sentenced three prominent members of the ...
Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin has been sentenced and fined in Iran for posting a photo to his Instagram account of a man who was assaulted by police. Posting a ...
Police and security forces blocked an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the anti-censorship Iranian Writers Association (IWA) by raiding the home in Tehran where it was supposed ...
Sohrab Mokhtari is the son of writer Mohammad Mokhtari, who was murdered by agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in 1998. The families of intellectuals and dissidents murdered by agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in the 1990s continue ...
Mohammad Mokhtari(left) and Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh were murdered in the fall of 1998. Security forces prevented a gathering ...
Iranian police and security forces dispersed a gathering marking the 17th anniversary of popular poet Ahmad Shamlu’s death and arrested several participants, including a senior member of the ...
