Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Push Harsh Prison Sentences for Activists
Cases Expose Judiciary’s Lack of Independence In another example of the Iranian Judiciary’s lack of independence, an ...
Cases Expose Judiciary’s Lack of Independence In another example of the Iranian Judiciary’s lack of independence, an ...
Pattern of Denied Medical Care Continues in Iranian Prisons Imprisoned newspaper columnist Afarin Chitsaz urgently ...
Under Rouhani, “They have changed tactics from hard forms of pressure to milder ones.” The leader of Iran’s largest teachers’ rights organization has said that due to pressure ...
“None of the state agencies confirm or deny anything.” Alireza Piri, a dentist from Tabriz in northwestern Iran who campaigned for former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, ...
Mother of Two Young Children Will Be Eligible for Release Only After 10 Years September 28, 2016—The upholding of the 16-year prison sentence against human rights ...
Mother of Two Young Children Will Be Eligible for Release Only After 10 Years An Appeals Court has upheld ...
Zarif Hopes Their Situation Can Be "Resolved Amicably" Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said he hoped the situation of detained dual nationals in Iran could be “resolved amicably,” ...
Editor Yashar Soltani, who was initially charged with “spreading lies” after his website published unclassified information about illegal land sales by the Tehran ...
Iranian authorities have ignored requests to reinstate a student expelled from a university because of his faith. Nineteen-year-old Faraz Karin-Kani ...
Imprisoned newspaper editor Ehsan Mazandarani will be on hunger strike in Evin Prison until he is released based on ...
“Amir Javadifar died beside me as he was begging for water. I can never forget those moments.” Reza Zoghi, who was tortured at the Kahrizak ...
Additional Charge Against Issa Saharkhiz Remains Pending Prominent reformist journalist Issa Saharkhiz’s prison sentence has been reduced based on ...
Sadra Mohaghegh, the social affairs editor of the reformist Shargh newspaper, was arrested on September 19, ...
Imprisoned music distributors Mehdi Rajabian and Hossein Rajabian are in poor health after ...
Just a few weeks after the publication of a 1988 audio recording on the late Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri's website ...
In a meeting with the Minister of Communications, conservative cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi recommended allocating the bandwidth ...
Death Sentence for Posting “Anti-Islamic” Content on Social Media Sina Dehghan was just 19-years-old when the Revolutionary ...
Translator Marjan Davari has been held in Evin Prison’s Women’s Ward for almost a year ...
Imprisoned Christian convert Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran, who has been hospitalized since August 21, ...
Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe’s Sentence Announced Two Weeks Before Rouhani Comes to NY September 12, 2016—The five-year prison sentence for Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, ...
The 10-year prison sentence of newspaper columnist Afarin Chitsaz has been reduced to two years on appeal and ...
September 9, 2016—Iran’s Judiciary must halt the prosecution of media outlets which carried out their journalist duty in publishing ...
In less than a month, between August 2 and August 27, 2016, at least 37 prisoners were executed in Iran. ...
This article has been updated on September 12, 2016 to reflect the correct number of original signatories. In a letter to ...
First Olympic Medal Won despite Little Official Support in Iran The Islamic Republic of Iran participated in the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with 63 athletes, only nine of whom ...