August 9, 2018

State TV of Iran Must End Its Use of Families to Discredit Journalists, Dissenters

State Broadcasts of Family Members Used to Silence Activists (New York, August 9, 2018) – Iranian authorities should immediately stop harassing and threatening ...

August 3, 2018

Desperate Families Call on Iranian State Heads to Release Detained Environmentalists

Detainees Held For Six Months Without Access to Counsel The families of environmentalists who have been detained in Iran for 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 ...

July 19, 2018

Sons of Iranian Canadian Who Died in Evin Prison Sue State Broadcaster For Slander

Ramin and Mehran Seyed-Emami have sued Iran’s state-run TV, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), for slandering their father Kavous Seyed-Emami, who died under suspicious circumstances ...

June 28, 2018

Injuries Reported After Iran’s Detained Environmentalists Subjected to Renewed Interrogations

Environmentalists detained without charge for the past five months in Tehran’s Evin Prison are once again being subjected ...

June 27, 2018

Widow Hospitalized After IRGC Storms Home of Iranian Canadian Who Died in Iranian State Custody

Tehran Prosecutor Ordered Raid to Gather Footage For a “Film” The widow of an Iranian Canadian environmentalist who recently died in state custody in ...

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 ...

May 17, 2018

Iranian Canadian’s Widow Maryam Mombeini Hospitalized Two Months After Being Banned From Leaving Iran

The wife of an Iranian Canadian academic who died in Iranian custody under suspicious circumstances in February 2018 was hospitalized for three days after exhibiting symptoms of a ...

May 12, 2018

Rouhani Commission on Detainee Deaths in Iran Fails to Produce Results Three Months After Formation

The fact-finding commission set up by President Hassan Rouhani to investigate the recent spate of ...

May 11, 2018

Dozens of Environmentalists Arrested in Southern Iran in Widening Crackdown

MP: Intelligence Ministry Has Rejected Espionage Claims More than 40 environmentalists, rangers and some of their relatives were arrested May 7-8, 2018, in the southern ...

May 9, 2018

800 Iranian Environmentalists Call on President Rouhani to Uphold the Rights of Detained Colleagues

Detainees’ Families Still Seeking Answers More Than Three Months Into Loved Ones’ Arrests President Hassan Rouhani has not responded to a ...

April 23, 2018

“Revealing” Preliminary Autopsy Report Omits Cause of Death of Iranian Canadian Who Died in Iranian Prison

Family and UN Officials Have Called for Investigation Into Claims Kavous Seyed-Emami Committed Suicide Two months have passed since Iranian ...

April 17, 2018

Iranians Lament Loss of Top Environmentalist From Governmental Post

Western-Educated Kaveh Madani Had Returned to Iran to “Help" Fix Country's Environmental Issues Iranian officials and journalists have taken to social media ...

March 26, 2018

Iranian Environmentalists Remain Detained Months After Arrests While Families Seek Answers

At Least 13 Environmentalists Have Been Detained in Iran Since January 2018 Seven environmentalists who were arrested in Tehran nearly two months ago remain ...

March 13, 2018

Iran: End Persecution of Families Seeking Truth and Justice For Detainees Who Died in Detention

JOINT PUBLIC STATEMENT 13 March 2018 The Iranian authorities should end their cruel campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of detainees who ...

March 8, 2018

Ongoing Harassment: Wife of Iranian-Canadian Who Died in Iran’s Evin Prison “Banned” From Leaving Country

Lives of Seyed-Emami Family Thrown Into “Chaos and Terror” March 8, 2018—The Iranian government should immediately allow the wife of Iranian-Canadian academic and environmentalist ...

March 5, 2018

Environmentalists Detained in Crackdown Denied Legal Counsel Amid Claims Some Were “Jewish Spies”

“No one knows if they are well or where they are being held.” Several environmentalists who were ...

March 1, 2018

Iranian MP Calls For Separation of Powers Among Rival Intelligence Agencies

Former Intelligence Minister Admits Iranian-Canadian Zahra Kazemi Was Killed in Evin Prison in 2003 Iran’s Parliamentary Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy is ...

March 1, 2018

Life of Iranian-American in Evin Prison is in Danger, Says Family

Karan Vafadari (left) with his son, Cyrus. Wife and Son of Karan Vafadari Fear For His Life After Suspicious Deaths in Prison March 1, 2018—The son of Iranian-American Karan Vafadari, ...

February 27, 2018

Shirin Ebadi: Commission on Deaths in Prisons Won’t Address Judiciary’s Lack of Independence

Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi has expressed doubt that a commission created by President Hassan Rouhani would shed light on the ...

February 24, 2018

Iranian MP Condemns State TV’s Unsubstantiated Accusations Against Iranian-Canadian Who Died in Prison

A member of Iran’s Parliament has sharply condemned the country’s state-funded radio and TV broadcaster for airing a film...

February 19, 2018

Seyed-Emami’s Family Lawyers Issue Statement Countering State TV Smear Campaign

Two lawyers representing the family of recently deceased Kavous Seyed-Emami have issued a statement countering the claims made in a short ...

February 16, 2018

Iranian Authorities Arrest Lawyer Who Exposed Death of Protester in Police Custody

Civil Rights Activists Also Detained February 16, 2018 – Attorney Mohammad Najafi has been held in detention in the Iranian city of Arak since January ...

February 15, 2018

Environmentalists Detained in Iran Denied Legal Counsel Weeks After Arrests

Some Detainees Allowed Brief Contact With Their Families Environmental activists who were detained at the same time as Kavous Seyed-Emami—who recently died in ...

February 14, 2018