December 24, 2019 -- Two female academics held in Tehran’s Evin Prison called for international solidarity as they announced that they would be denying food and water indefinitely as of Christmas Eve. Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert and Iranian-born ...
Iran Has Detained at Least Three Australians in the Last Year September 16, 2019 – Australian academic Kylie Gilbert-Moore has been held for almost a year in Ward 2-A of Tehran’s Evin Prison, controlled by the ...
Amiri Was Forced to Choose Lawyer from Court-Issued List The UK-based British Council employee Aras Amiri was jailed in Iran for refusing to spy for the country’s Intelligence Ministry, her cousin, Mohsen Omrani, told the Center for Human ...
Xiyue Wang (left) poses for a photo with his son and wife. UN, GENEVA ...
April 24, 2019 – Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s statement today that he has the “authority” to exchange Iranian-Americans imprisoned in Iran with the US is a glaring admission that these prisoners are being held as political hostages. “If ...
At Least Four Academics and One Scientist With Foreign Ties Detained in Iran Since 2016 *Editor's Note: This article was corrected on December 6, 2018, to reflect that Mohammad Jalal Abbasi was summoned, not detained. One Iranian ...
Xiyue Wang (right) with his son and wife. A group of 120 academics and human rights activists of Iranian origin have called on Iran to free imprisoned American scholar Xiyue ...
"Evin Prison officials are using medicine as a weapon" US permanent resident Nizar Zakka is being denied medical attention in Evin Prison despite being told by his doctor ...
Iran’s state-funded TV and radio broadcaster, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), has aired videos accusing two imprisoned foreign nationals of espionage ...
An Iranian Appeals Court has upheld the 10-year prison sentence against American graduate student Xiyue Wang, held since the summer of 2016 on unspecified espionage charges shrouded in secrecy by judicial officials. "We are distressed that his appeal ...
Xiyue Wang, a graduate student in history at Princeton University, has been sentenced to 10 ...
