Anti-Pollution Initiative Stymied by Ban on Women Riding Bicycles in Public
Women’s rights activists and environmentalists joined forces in the city of Marivan, in Iran’s Kurdistan Province, after a local anti-pollution ...
Women’s rights activists and environmentalists joined forces in the city of Marivan, in Iran’s Kurdistan Province, after a local anti-pollution ...
Only 10 of the 20 Sunni Prisoners Killed Are Identified by Authorities Iran is withholding the names of ten ...
The weekly Ya Lesarat, the official publication of the ultraconservative vigilante group Ansar-e Hezbollah, has been suspended by Iran’s ...
As Many As 20 Others May Have Been Executed Too Kurdish prisoner Shahram Ahmadi was hanged in the courtyard of Iran’s Rajaee Shahr ...
Campaign Pledges Three Years Ago to Free Political Prisoners Now Ring Hollow Dozens of human rights lawyers who have been imprisoned for years ...
Ninety-two university student groups have issued a joint letter to President Hassan Rouhani ...
The seven-year prison sentence of reformist newspaper editor Ehsan Mazandarani has been reduced to two years on appeal, his brother-in-law Sam Hosseini ...
One hundred fifty young girls and boys were arrested for attending an “inappropriate mixed-gender” birthday party near the city of Tehran, according to an announcement...
Case Exposes Judiciary’s Lack of Independence Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has directly interfered ...
Tehran’s recent ultimatum to Apple, the US tech giant, to open up an office in Iran or ...
Charges and Whereabouts of Robin (Reza) Shahini Unknown Iranian-American Robin (Reza) Shahini, the latest victim of a string of arrests and prolonged detainments of dual nationals who have travelled to Iran, ...
At a June 23, 2016 public meeting with poets chosen and invited by his administration, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said: "I have heard that some publish their ...
Iran’s anti-vice squads, also referred to as the morality police, are particularly busy in the hot summer months ...
Rassoul Bodaghi, a senior member of the Iranian Teacher’s Association who has been repeatedly ...
Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyestani reacts to the June 12, 2016 shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, in which 49 patrons were killed and 53 more were ...
Iran’s Parliament has ratified an amended law that reduces...
“In this society, lawyers who bear witness to injustice and speak the truth get punished.” Constant pressure ...
The wife of Hashem Zeinali, a 70-year-old man who was given a lashing ...
Charging the prominent Iranian artist Parviz Tanavoli, who also holds Canadian citizenship, with “disturbing public opinion and spreading ...
Christian convert Maryam (Nasim) Naghash Zargaran, imprisoned since 2013, has vowed to continue ...
Hashtag #FreeNarges Skyrockets in Iran despite Official Ban on Twitter More than 100,000 Iranians took part in ...
Ahmad Karimi Najjar, a political prisoner currently serving the seventh year of his 16-year prison sentence in Iran’s ...
This commentary was originally published in the World Politics Review. Hadi Ghaemi There is a crackdown underway in ...
A Judicial official has threatened Narges Mohammadi, a leading human rights defender ...
Judicial officials are refusing to review the case of political prisoner Mohammad Ali (Pirooz) Mansouri who is legally ...