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Tag : Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps

February 7, 2023

New Briefing: Failure to Increase International Costs on Islamic Republic Will Green-Light Further Atrocities

Recommendations Lay Out Tangible Actions Governments Can Take to Address Violent Repression February 7, 2023 – More than four months into the Islamic Republic’s ...

January 29, 2022

Iran’s Violent Crushing of Protests Followed by Growth of Security State

IRGC Commanders Appointed as Governor-Generals to 10 of Iran’s 31 Provinces “People’s tolerance level has decreased in recent years, given the increasing economic ...

December 24, 2019

Australian, French Academics Call for Christmas Eve Hunger Strike

December 24, 2019 -- Two female academics held in Tehran’s Evin Prison called for international solidarity as they announced that they would be denying food and water indefinitely ...

April 18, 2019

Iranians Push Back as Officials Threaten to Block Instagram in Retaliation for Banned IRGC Accounts

Some Iranian officials have responded to Instagram’s decision to remove accounts it has associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) by ...

January 11, 2019

Famed Iranian Playwright Mohammad Rahmanian Charged for Allegedly Featuring Female Soloist

Complaint Brought by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Prominent Iranian theater director and playwright Mohammad Rahmanian has been charged with “propaganda against the state” based ...

December 4, 2018

Two Academics Who Held Australian Postings Detained, Summoned in Iran

At Least Four Academics and One Scientist With Foreign Ties Detained in Iran Since 2016 *Editor's Note: This article was corrected ...

October 23, 2018

Iran Charges Environmentalists With National Security Crimes

Prosecutions Lacking Due Process Aimed at Deflecting Attention from Death of One of the Detainees October 23, 2018 – Nine months after a group of ...

October 8, 2018

Five Environmentalists Charged in Iran After Eight Months in Prison

* This article was last updated on October 10, 2018. October 8, 2018 – Five out of the eight environmentalists who have been detained in ...

September 27, 2018

Fourth Women’s Rights Activist Arrested in Iran in Less Than a Month

Women’s rights advocate Maryam Azad was arrested by security agents at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport on September 25, 2018, after boarding a ...

August 31, 2018

Fighting Between IRGC and Kurdish Forces Results in More Deaths of Iran’s Border Couriers

At least one courier has been killed and five other people injured near Iran’s border with Iraq since August 23, 2018, the Center ...

August 28, 2018

Kurdish Death Row Inmate Sews Lips Shut in Hunger Strike Against Denial of Rights

Ramin Hossein Panahi, a Kurdish man in danger of imminent execution in Iran, has sewn his lips shut to protest the ...

August 2, 2018

Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Facing Prison For Criticizing Judiciary

Iranian attorney Mostafa Tork Hamadani has been charged for criticizing the judiciary for barring him and other defense lawyers from defending ...

August 1, 2018

IRGC-Affiliated Media Trying to “Prepare Public Opinion” For Execution of Kurdish Man

Relatives of Ramin Hossein Panahi, a Kurdish man on death row in Iran, have raised concerns ...

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 ...

April 25, 2018

Iran Detains Another Iranian British Citizen, Computer Scientist and Antiwar Activist Abbas Edalat

Abbas Edalat (Imperial College of London) April 25, 2018—Abbas Edalat, an Iranian British ...

June 28, 2017

Guilt by Association: Relatives of Armed Kurdish Group Member Shot by IRGC Arrested

“We don’t know if he’s dead or still alive.” Four relatives of a member of a Kurdish militant organization who was recently ...

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