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 ...
Abtin, Jailed for Dissent, is Second Political Prisoner to Die in Iran in First Week of 2022 January 8, 2022 – The death ...
Baktash Abtin (left) and Adel Kianpour (right). Concerns Mount for Prisoners Under Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i COVID-19 in Crowded ...
Arash Ganji, a translator and secretary of the board of directors of the ...
Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced writer, translator, and the secretary of the board of directors of the Iranian Writers' ...
Poet Amin Moradi Detained, Arash Ganji Released on Bail Manufactured National Security Charges Used to Silence Free Expression In yet another blow to the ...
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 ...
Prominent Members of Iranian Writers Association Each Sentenced to Six Years Behind Bars May 17, 2019—In a glaring repudiation of freedom of expression ...
Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin has been sentenced and fined in Iran for posting a photo ...
Police and security forces blocked an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the anti-censorship Iranian Writers Association...
Sohrab Mokhtari is the son of writer Mohammad Mokhtari, who was murdered by agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in 1998. The families of ...
Mohammad Mokhtari(left) and Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh ...
Iranian police and security forces dispersed a gathering marking the 17th anniversary of popular poet Ahmad Shamlu’s...
