A major challenge for newly reelected President Hassan Rouhani is integrating guidelines from a UN agenda into the country’s educational system amid fierce opposition from hardliners ...
Mostafa Daneshjou, a formerly imprisoned lawyer and member of a Sufi religious order known as ...
“Banned from university, businesses sealed, cemeteries desecrated… What rights do Baha’is have as citizens?” The persecution of ...
The presidential candidacy of Ebrahim Raisi as depicted by Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyastani....
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In the run-up to Iran’s presidential election on May 19, 2017, the country’s hardline supreme leader has strongly denounced the Rouhani government’s attempt ...
A member of the Women’s Citizenship Center, a non-governmental organization in Tehran, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) that women’s rights ...
Items of Note Khatami Endorses Rouhani Influential reformist leader Mohammad Khatami has thrown his weight behind incumbent President Hassan Rouhani for Iran's May 19 presidential election. “We started on a path with Mr. Rouhani and we are at ...
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Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and former political prisoner Nasrin Sotoudeh has ...
A month before Iranians head to the polls for the presidential and council elections, a heated exchange between the judiciary and ...
The son of late Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who publicly condemned the extrajudicial executions of thousands of ...
Robin (Reza) Shahini, the Iranian-American man sentenced to 18 years imprisonment in Iran on alleged security charges, has been ...
After 24 days on hunger strike in Evin Prison in Tehran, reformist political activist Hengameh Shahidi, detained without charge and denied legal counsel since ...
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s colleagues stand around her empty desk at the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s ...
Iranian-British citizen Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, imprisoned in Iran since April 2016, has written a letter to her UK-based husband about the pain of being separated from their infant daughter, Gabriella “Gisoo” Ratcliffe, and disillusionment with her ...
March 10, 2017—Serious and baseless new charges have been brought against Karan Vafadari and Afarin Neyssari, the dual-national Iranian-American and ...
For the time being, a powerful hardline cleric implicated in major human rights violations, Ebrahim Raisi, has ruled out his candidacy in ...
Some Conservatives Side With Reformist Leader Khatami Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s refusal of an offer to achieve “national reconciliation” in Iran by ending the six-year ...
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Husband Writes Direct Plea to Rouhani January 25, 2017–The Iranian Judiciary’s recent upholding ...
October 25, 2016—The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran calls on Iran’s Judiciary to immediately release on bail the unjustly imprisoned Iranian-American dual citizens ...
One year after Iranian-American dual citizen Siamak Namazi was arrested by the Revolutionary Guards in Tehran, media outlets affiliated with the Guards...
Namazi Reportedly on Hunger Strike at Evin Now Siamak Namazi, the Iranian-American businessman who was arrested in October while visiting family in Tehran, ...
Keywan Karimi The harsh judgment against filmmaker Keywan Karimi for “insulting the sacred” and “illegitimate relations” is baseless ...
Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Moosavi Forced Confessions Used as Primary Evidence in Convictions October 14, 2015—A ...
