Interview With Literary Figure Alireza Behnam on Censorship
“Authors have learned that they cannot write about things that are against the country’s official religion, or against national security, or anything that ...
Tag : Poet
December 30, 2017
Poet to Serve Two Years in Prison For Criticizing Iran’s Supreme Leader
Editor's Note: Mahdavifar’s two-year prison sentence was upheld by an Appeals Court on July 3, 2018. Poet Mohammad Mahdavifar has been ...
November 5, 2017
Iranian Poet Sentenced to Prison and Flogging For the Charge of “Insulting the Sacred”
Poet and civil rights activist Reza Ekvanyan has been sentenced to three years in prison and 40 lashes for the charges of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting the sacred” by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, presided by Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh ...
January 11, 2016
Detained Poet Describes Being Transported in a Cage and Watched “Like a Murderer”
Two-Day Ordeal Included Solitary Confinement and Incarceration with Criminals The poet Hila Sedighi, who was arrested and held for two days amidst an intensifying ...
January 9, 2016
Hila Sedighi Released on Bail
Hila Sedighi was released on bail on the evening of Saturday, January 9 in Tehran. The authorities did not provide any details regarding the reason for her arrest ...
January 8, 2016
Young Poet Hila Sedighi Arrested at Airport in Tehran, Latest in String of Arrests
Photo by Reza Baharinejad from Hila Sedighi's Facebook page Freedom of Artistic Expression ...
December 24, 2015
Popular Iranian Poet Arrested for Third Time amidst Hardline Crackdown against Artistic Community
The well-known Iranian poet Mohamadreza Haj Rostambegloo was released on bail from Karaj’s Central Prison last week, following his third arrest by the authorities in Iran ...
October 19, 2015
Kurdish Filmmaker’s Six-Year Prison Sentence and 223 Lashes Illegal, Says Lawyer
Keywan Karimi The harsh judgment against filmmaker Keywan Karimi for “insulting the sacred” and “illegitimate relations” is baseless and ...
October 14, 2015
Two Poets Sentenced to Flogging and Nine and Eleven Years in Prison
Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Moosavi Forced Confessions Used as Primary Evidence in Convictions October 14, 2015—A Tehran ...