*Editor's Note: Sepideh Rashnoo was released on bail on August 30, 2022, while she awaits her trial. August 23, 2022 – Charges filed against a woman in Iran, Sepideh Rashnoo, after she was accosted by another woman who ...
Eight Prisoners Could Soon See Their Fingers Cut Off June 15, 2022 – In violation of its international obligations against torture, ...
Honor Killings Will Continue as Long as Iran’s Laws Protects Killers Widespread Practice of Child Marriage Means More Young Girls Will Be Murdered February 10, ...
Imprisoned attorney Amirsalar Davoudi, the latest human rights attorney to be sentenced to a lengthy prison term in Iran for doing ...
Iran’s Appeals Court, which met last week to review satirist Keyomars Marzban’s appeal against a preliminary court’s harsh sentence against ...
Charged with national security crimes for his social media posts, journalist Masoud Kazemi has been sentenced to 4.5 years ...
Defense Attorney Imprisoned for Social Media Posts June 5, 2019 – Amirsalar Davoudi has become the third known defense attorney to be sent ...
“The authorities…refuse to accept the fact that they have condemned a woman lawyer to suffer the inhuman act of flogging and a ...
Kamal Jafari Yazdi Had a Change of Heart After the 2009 Protests Kamal Jafari Yazdi, a former staunch supporter of the Iranian government, has been sentenced to 13 ...
The Iranian government and judiciary are intensifying a nationwide crackdown on civil society and beyond to stifle any form of dissent, ...
Newly released from prison, civil rights activist Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi may have to serve ...
Shiite mystic Mohammad Ali Taheri, who has been imprisoned in Iran since 2011, expects to be freed on parole “soon,” according to his lawyer ...
Kurdish political activist Mokhtar Zarei was summoned and taken into custody in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, on July 21, 2018, for criticizing Iran’s Supreme ...
Forty-six members of what security officials have described as an online “modeling ring,” including 8 female models, ...
A courtroom in Iran. A man identified by local media as “M. ...
Case Highlights Violations of Domestic and International Law and Judiciary’s Lack of Independence February 27, 2018–A young man who was incarcerated at 15 ...
Iranian-Kurdish political activist Ramin Hossein Panahi will appeal the death sentence he was issued on January 25, 2018, by ...
Blood money should be calculated on the basis of actual costs and inflation, not the market price for camels, as it is currently based ...
Mohammad Saber Malek-Raeisi, imprisoned in Iran for the last eight years solely because of his brother’s alleged links with a terrorist ...
A lawyer in Iran is speaking out about sexism in the country’s legal code after the families of two children who ...
Prominent Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh: Case Had “Serious Holes” August 10, 2017–Iran has violated its international obligations by executing Alireza Tajiki, who was 15-years-old when he was arrested and 16 ...
