Crackdown Aimed at Destroying Any Chance of Fair Trials for Protesters Detainees Forced to Use Court-Appointed Lawyers January 10, 2023 – While the Islamic Republic has been gunning down and executing street protesters, it has also been arresting ...
Café Worker Mohsen Shekari, 23, Denied Due Process in Kangaroo Court December 8, 2022 – The execution today in Iran of Mohsen Shekari, 23, after a trial by a kangaroo court that denied him due process emphasizes ...
A defense attorney who has represented many detainees held on politically motivated charges in Iran explains what it’s like to work in a country where the state is actively working to eliminate his profession ...
Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced writer, translator, and the secretary of the board of directors of the Iranian Writers' Association, Arash Ganji, to 11 years in prison. Ganji was convicted of ...
Execution of Navid Afkari: “Imposed following a process that did not meet even the most basic…fair trial standards, behind a smokescreen of a murder charge” UN human rights experts released a statement today “strongly condemning” Iran’s execution of ...
New Law Reduces Derafshan’s Sentence By 6 Months, Must Still Serve Two Years Sentence Reductions at Judge’s Discretion in “National Security” Cases Imprisoned human rights attorney Payam Derafshan is in poor health and in need of hospitalization, his lawyer Saeed ...
Arrest of Mehraveh Khandan Aimed at Forcing Sotoudeh to End Her Hunger Strike in Prison August 18, 2020—Mehraveh Khandan, the 20-year-old daughter of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, was arrested at her home in Tehran on ...
Bahareh Hedayat: Those 176 people will not come back to life; neither will those killed in November 2019 July 27, 2020—For her participation in a peaceful gathering to condemn the downing of the Ukrainian passenger plane by Iran’s ...
Three Relatives of Iranian Dissidents Arbitrarily Prosecuted in One Month Amid a renewed crackdown on peaceful criticism of Iranian state policies, the son of imprisoned filmmaker and journalist Mohammad Nourizad is being arbitrarily prosecuted to “pressure” Nourizad ...
UN Press Release, GENEVA (20 December 2019) – UN human rights experts* today called on the Iranian authorities to release all individuals arbitrarily detained and mistreated during recent protests, and expressed concerns over the hundreds of people ...
Complaint: Authorities Should Investigate Last Known Person Who Saw Levinson Before His Disappearance, American Citizen Dawud Salahuddin No Mention of Statement or Findings by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence Organization in Case Files The Iran-based lawyer representing ...
Iran’s Appeals Court, which met last week to review satirist Keyomars Marzban’s appeal against a preliminary court’s harsh sentence against him, is expected to issue a ruling next week without hearing his defense, a source with detailed ...
Civil rights activist Reza Khandan (left) has been detained since September 2018 while ...
Two top advisors to former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005-2013) have been sentenced to prison in Iran under national security charges. Former Vice President Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei was ...
Ramin Hossein Panahi, a Kurdish man in danger of imminent execution in Iran, has sewn his lips shut to protest the denial of his rights by prison authorities. “Unfortunately, ...
Photo: Ramin Hossein Panahi has been transferred to an unknown location possibly to face execution. The authorities of Iran’s Sanandaj Central Prison led 24-year-old Kurdish death row prisoner Ramin Hossein ...
Judge Salavati Often Assigned to Issue Harsh Sentences in Political Cases The judge who will re-sentence imprisoned spiritual thinker Mohammad Ali Taheri for the charge of “corruption on earth” has demanded that Taheri ...
Zargaran Reports Being Given “Unnecessary” Anti-Psychotic Medication Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran, who was released from Evin Prison on August 1, 2017 after serving more than four years for allegedly engaging in Christian missionary activities, has been banned ...
Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and former political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh has strongly criticized the candidacy of Ebrahim Raisi in Iran’s May 19, 2017 ...
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 inside Evin Prison. His condition was defined as “very worrying” after ...
During a press conference today, Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi told reporters that the imprisoned Washington Post correspondent, Jason Rezaian, has been indicted and that his case has been forwarded to a Tehran Revolutionary Court. The Prosecutor’s announcement, after 170 days of “temporary detention” of ...
Tehran's Prosecutor's Office announced on Thursday that the files of five suspects arrested on Ashura on charges of muharebeh have been completed and forwarded to Iran's Revolutionary courts. According to ...
