Iran: Release Political Prisoner Maryam Akbari-Monfared
Behind Bars Unjustly Since 2009, Eligible for Release in 2017 May 20, 2019—Iran must end the cruel and unlawful imprisonment of ...
Behind Bars Unjustly Since 2009, Eligible for Release in 2017 May 20, 2019—Iran must end the cruel and unlawful imprisonment of ...
Both Women Being Held for Unknown Reasons at Evin Prison A second senior member of the charity group Voice of Iranian Women (VIW), which has ...
Prominent Members of Iranian Writers Association Each Sentenced to Six Years Behind Bars May 17, 2019—In a glaring repudiation of freedom of expression and the ...
In an important step to eliminate a fundamental and longstanding discriminatory restriction on Iranian women and their children, Iran’s Parliament overwhelmingly ratified the ...
Tehran’s Culture and Media Court suspended the reformist weekly magazine “Seda” (The Voice) on May 11, 2019, hours after it had published an ...
Citing domestic Islamic religious decrees and common law, Isfahan city prosecutor Ali Isfahani announced on May 14, 2019, a ban on female bicyclists. “Based ...
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 ...
A year after Parliament ratified the Law for the Protection of the Rights of Persons With Disabilities, the Iranian government has approved ...
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Number of Women Political Prisoners Rising in Iran May 13, 2019 – A Tehran appeals court upheld a 7.5-year prison sentence against prominent political activist Hengameh Shahidi based on her social media posts in which ...
“Authors have learned that they cannot write about things that are against the country’s official religion, or against national security, or anything that ...
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Parisa Rafiei, a student at the University of Tehran, was pressured to take a “virginity test” while in state custody and ...
Authorities’ Focus on Political Activists while Violent Individuals Go Unnoticed on Social Media Following the killing of Mostafa Ghasemi, a cleric in the city ...
On May 5, 2019, the Iranian Parliament’s Judicial and Legal Affairs Committee approved a problematic proposal that would allow detainees accused of national ...
Iran’s minister of education has called on the police to trace the “source” of what he described as “disturbing videos” of schoolchildren ...
(9 May 2019) – UN human rights experts* called on Iran to immediately halt the practice of executing child offenders, citing ...
An adviser to President Hassan Rouhani was met with protesters at Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran on May 1, 2019, where ...
Xiyue Wang (left) poses for a photo with his son and wife. ...
Hamid Fatehi, a deputy minister at the Ministry ...
Several workers’ rights activists including teachers who were arrested at rallies in Tehran on May 1 (International Labor Day) and May 2 (Iran’s ...
Iran’s ...
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 ...
Political activist Siavash Rezaeian has been told to report to a prison in central Iran for criticizing former Judiciary Chief Sadegh ...
Prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi was recently taken from Evin Prison to a hospital in Tehran where she was told she ...