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May 10, 2019

Proposal Aims to Allow Authorities to Hold Detainees For at Least 20 Days Without Counsel

On May 5, 2019, the Iranian Parliament’s Judicial and Legal Affairs Committee approved a problematic proposal that would allow detainees accused of national ...

December 7, 2018

Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer Mohammad Najafi Slapped With Additional Charges

Imprisoned human rights lawyer Mohammad Najafi appeared at Branch 1 of Iran’s Revolutionary Court in ...

November 12, 2018

Attorney Must Be Released from Prison in Iran While Case is Under Appeal

Mohammad Najafi May Also Be Flogged Despite Health Concerns November 12, 2018—The attorney Mohammad Najafi is being imprisoned unlawfully while his ...

September 17, 2018

Nasrin Sotoudeh Sacrifices Family Visits To Protest Prosecutor’s Demand She Wear Full Hijab

Detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has given up her family visitation right in protest against a ...

September 4, 2018

Husband of Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer, Arrested for Speaking Out, Must Be Released Immediately

State Harassment, Arrest of Family Members to Silence Dissent Intensifies in Iran September 4, 2018—Reza Khandan, the husband of imprisoned human rights lawyer ...

August 23, 2018

Intelligence Agents Raid Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Home, Taking Pins as Evidence  

“They’re going to use the pins as criminal evidence, as if they had found bombs” Iranian security agents raided the homes of ...

August 15, 2018

Mother of Detained Activist Hears Her Son Being Beaten Over the Phone

“Why is a Lonely, Elderly Mother Being Targeted Like This?” The mother of Farhad Meysami, a civil rights activist who has been detained in Iran since July 2018, says she ...

June 25, 2018

Detained Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Protests “Fabricated” Charges by Refusing to Post Bail

Detained Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has refused to post bail in protest against the charges that have ...

June 18, 2018

Iranian Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Charged With National Security Crimes For Representing Hijab Protesters

Human Rights Lawyer Threatens to Remove Hijab in Protest After Supporters Beaten Outside Prison Detained Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is facing two national ...

June 6, 2018

Nobel Laureate Anticipates Crackdown in Iran as Judiciary Bans Human Rights Lawyers From Security Cases

Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. “Note to Article 48” Limits Detainees’ Counsel Choices to 20 State-Approved Lawyers Nobel Peace ...

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 ...

May 6, 2016

Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer’s Daughter: Help My Father Before It’s Too Late

Abdolfattah Soltani’s Condition Deteriorates; Needs Urgent Hospitalization Abdolfattah Soltani, an imprisoned human rights lawyer, requires ...

April 14, 2016

Lawyer Released from Prison in Iran Describes Grim Conditions for Political Prisoners

Prisoners Face Denial of Medical Care, Refusal to Transfer Inmates to Hospital despite Life Threatening Illness, Solitary Confinement Aimed at Extracting False Confessions, Poor Nutrition, Denial of ...

January 20, 2016

Ageing Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer Should Be Released on Medical Grounds, Wife Says

The wife of the prominent lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh, who has been imprisoned since April 2011 for his work defending human rights and political ...

October 30, 2015

Revolutionary Guards Treat Protesting Teachers as Agitators, Lawyer Says

Peyman Haj-Mahmoud Attar, the lawyer for the Teachers ...

August 17, 2015

Imprisoned Human Rights Defender Abdolfattah Soltani Denied Visitation with His Wife

Abdolfattah Soltani, human rights lawyer. Evin Prison authorities have prevented Massoumeh Dehghan from visiting her husband, the imprisoned human ...

July 9, 2015

Parliamentary Bills Further Threaten Autonomy of Legal Profession in Iran

In an escalating war of words that reflects the long-running conflict between the Judiciary and lawyers over the legal profession’s independence in Iran, the Iranian Bar Association Union’s president, Bahman Keshavarz, reiterated in an interview with the ...

Latest News

  • 30 Legal Groups Call for Immediate Release of Detained Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and Her Husband Reza Khandan
    30 Legal Groups Call for Immediate Release of Detained Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and Her Husband Reza Khandan
    April 14, 2026
  • Attacks on Essential Infrastructure Will Have Catastrophic Consequences for Millions of Civilians Across the Region
    Attacks on Essential Infrastructure Will Have Catastrophic Consequences for Millions of Civilians Across the Region
    April 6, 2026
  • At least 1,500 Arrested in Iran as State Intensifies Domestic Crackdown
    At least 1,500 Arrested in Iran as State Intensifies Domestic Crackdown
    March 31, 2026
  • Opinion: Iran is already ramping up its next war. Guess who the ‘enemy’ is.
    Opinion: Iran is already ramping up its next war. Guess who the ‘enemy’ is.
    March 25, 2026
  • Three Protesters Publicly Hanged in Iran; Dozens More At Imminent Risk of Execution
    Three Protesters Publicly Hanged in Iran; Dozens More At Imminent Risk of Execution
    March 19, 2026
  • Civilians Must Be Protected Across the Middle East
    Civilians Must Be Protected Across the Middle East
    March 5, 2026
  • Grave Concerns for the Safety of Political Prisoners and Detainees in Iran
    Grave Concerns for the Safety of Political Prisoners and Detainees in Iran
    March 2, 2026
  • Iran’s Machinery of Repression Escalates: Arbitrary Arrests, Torture, Enforced Disappearances, and Death Sentences After Protest Massacre
    Iran’s Machinery of Repression Escalates: Arbitrary Arrests, Torture, Enforced Disappearances, and Death Sentences After Protest Massacre
    February 25, 2026
  • UN Experts Demand Iran Reveal Fate of Detainees, Halt Executions
    UN Experts Demand Iran Reveal Fate of Detainees, Halt Executions
    February 20, 2026
  • Op-Ed: Iran’s Protests Have Ended. The State’s Terror Campaign Has Not.
    Op-Ed: Iran’s Protests Have Ended. The State’s Terror Campaign Has Not.
    February 16, 2026
  • Over 200 Schoolchildren Killed by Security Forces in Iran: ‘They’ve Effectively Massacred an Entire School’
    Over 200 Schoolchildren Killed by Security Forces in Iran: ‘They’ve Effectively Massacred an Entire School’
    February 12, 2026
  • Unreported Atrocities: Eyewitnesses Detail Massive and Deadly State Crackdown Against Protesters in Iran’s Provincial Cities
    Unreported Atrocities: Eyewitnesses Detail Massive and Deadly State Crackdown Against Protesters in Iran’s Provincial Cities
    January 30, 2026
  • Statement From Physicians in Iran: ‘Being a Doctor Is Not a Crime’
    Statement From Physicians in Iran: ‘Being a Doctor Is Not a Crime’
    January 29, 2026
  • UN Human Rights Council Extends Iran Fact-Finding Mission, Condemns ‘Deadliest Crackdown against Iranian People Since 1979 Revolution’
    UN Human Rights Council Extends Iran Fact-Finding Mission, Condemns 'Deadliest Crackdown against Iranian People Since 1979 Revolution'
    January 26, 2026
  • Iran: Mass Violent Arrests, Forced Confessions, Lawyers Blocked, Escalating Risk of Executions of Protesters 
    Iran: Mass Violent Arrests, Forced Confessions, Lawyers Blocked, Escalating Risk of Executions of Protesters 
    January 23, 2026
  • 30+ Rights Groups Sound Alarm Over Grave Risks to Detainees in Iran Amid Blackout
    30+ Rights Groups Sound Alarm Over Grave Risks to Detainees in Iran Amid Blackout
    January 15, 2026
  • Exclusive Interview: Physician Treating Protesters in Iran Describes Mass Casualties, Overwhelmed Hospitals
    Exclusive Interview: Physician Treating Protesters in Iran Describes Mass Casualties, Overwhelmed Hospitals
    January 12, 2026
  • Grave Concern That State Massacre of Protesters is Underway in Iran Amid Internet Blackout
    Grave Concern That State Massacre of Protesters is Underway in Iran Amid Internet Blackout
    January 9, 2026
  • Iranian Authorities Intensify Crackdown on Protests with Live Fire, Arbitrary Arrests, and Attacks on Hospitals
    Iranian Authorities Intensify Crackdown on Protests with Live Fire, Arbitrary Arrests, and Attacks on Hospitals
    January 6, 2026
  • UN: Iran Must Stop Execution of 67-Year-Old Iranian Woman
    UN: Iran Must Stop Execution of 67-Year-Old Iranian Woman
    December 28, 2025
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