Keyomars Marzban, a 26-year-old satirist, has been held incommunicado in Tehran's Evin Prison and without access to counsel since the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) arrested him on August 26, 2018. “When he left Iran in 2009, he lived in Malaysia for ...
Fifty Baha’i students have been expelled from Iranian universities in the current Iranian year (beginning March 21, 2018) because of their religious beliefs, according to Simin Fahandej, a representative of the Baha’i International Community’s Office in Geneva to the United Nations. “This ...
Eighteen Sufi dervishes of the Gonabadi Order are on hunger strike in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) including Zafarali Moghimi, who is in poor health after refusing food for almost five months, according to ...
Mohammad Javad Larijani, the secretary general of the Iranian judiciary's High Council for Human Rights. Following are the summary, introduction, and recommendations of the report of the UN secretary general ...
Detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has given up her family visitation right in protest against a prosecutor’s demand that she receive visitors fully draped in a hijab. “The prosecutor has sent a letter to me and my mother ...
Detained Iranian political activist and journalist Hengameh Shahidi has defied a judge’s order by refusing to hire a new lawyer. “I have been trying to visit my client since her case was sent to court two months ago, ...
Two top advisors to former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005-2013) have been sentenced to prison in Iran under national security charges. Former Vice President Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei was sentenced to six and a half years in prison on ...
After a mass strike by Kurdish merchants in western Iran on September 12, 2018, Iranian security forces arrested several civil rights activists in the region, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. The strikers closed their shops in protest against ...
Seven human rights lawyers have been arrested in Iran since January 2018 as the state escalates its assault against its own legal profession and its flagrant violations of basic rights of freedom of expression and due process. “The authorities in Iran arrested these lawyers for the same reason all the other human right defenders are ...
The mothers of two children with spinal disabilities in Tehran Province told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) that they are unable to obtain diapers, urinary catheters and other necessary sanitary products due to scarcity and rising costs. Iran’s ...
The mother of imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has urged Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi to allow the ailing political prisoner to go on furlough (temporary leave) so she can visit her ailing father ...
In a letter from Iran’s Evin Prison, prominent human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has condemned the judiciary’s execution of three Kurdish prisoners on September 8, 2018, despite serious concerns regarding the use of torture, forced confessions ...
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