UN independent human rights experts have condemned the escalating violence, threats, and intimidation faced by Persian language journalists for their critical reporting ...
Members of civil society in Iran including a city councilman, soccer player, and journalists were detained or summoned for questioning after criticizing the Iranian ...
Marzieh Amiri, a reporter for the reformist Shargh newspaper, has been in Evin Prison’s Ward 209 under the control of the Intelligence Ministry since she was arrested ...
Abbas Salehi, Iran's minister of culture and Islamic guidance. Journalists Tweet “I’m Not Interested” to Protest Discriminatory ...
A week after Tehran’s hardline chief prosecutor announced he would be suing the editor-in-chief of the major ...
Tactics Meant to Sow Fear among Independent Journalists in Wake of Reformists’ Parliamentary Election Gains Iran’s Intelligence Ministry officials are increasingly harassing ...
A source close to imprisoned journalist Hengameh Shahidi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the prisoner of conscience spent her 36th birthday inside Evin Prison’s Methadone Ward. After several female political prisoners were transferred to Varamin Prison, Shahidi was transferred from ...
(12 May 2011) Iranian authorities should immediately release Al Jazeera journalist Homa Dorothy Parvaz, who was detained in Damascus, Syria and deported to Tehran, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. The government should provide a transparent account of Parvaz’s detention and ...
