August 11, 2020

Political Prisoners in Iran Contracting COVID-19 at Alarming Rate

Twelve Test Positive, Many Others with Symptoms, None Receiving Proper Treatment Prominent Labor Activists, Lawyer and Journalist Among Those Falling Ill August 11, 2020—Political ...

December 11, 2015

Mother Puts All Hope in Appeals Court to Free Son

“How can a young man who worked hard for Rouhani’s presidential campaign, ‘wage propaganda’ and ‘act against the state’?” That is the question ...

November 25, 2015

Political Prisoner’s Health Deteriorating as His Hunger Strike Enters Fourth Week

The political prisoner Majid Azarpey is in extremely poor health since beginning a wet hunger strike (refusing solid foods) in Evin Prison on November ...

November 17, 2015

Prisoner of Conscience on Hunger Strike Transferred to Clinic as His Condition Worsens

Fourteen days after prisoner of conscience Ali Shariati embarked on a hunger strike to protest the judicial process of his case, he remains on strike ...