Arrests

Eleven months after the murder of a child bride by her cleric husband in Lorestan western Iran, Shargh state-run daily...

Award-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi was ordered on July 19, 2022, to serve a six-year prison sentence issued against him in...

Iranian authorities have sentenced Mahboubeh Ramezani, the bereaved mother of slain protester Pejman Gholipour to 100 lashes for seeking justice...

Three Iranian teachers are kept in limbo in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. Jafar Ebrahimi, Mohammad Habibi, and Rasoul Bodaghi were...

In what appears to be a fearful reaction to growing social protests, the clerical regime has resorted to widespread arrests...

Security forces arrested former political prisoner Seyyed Javad Seyedi during a gathering of retirees in Tehran on July 2 and...

Labor activist Reyhaneh Ansarinejad has remained in detention on remand in Evin Prison’s Intelligence Ministry Ward 209. She has been...

Nearly two months after being arrested, labor activists Asadollahi and Keyvan Mohtadi remain in detention in Ward 209 of Evin...

Teachers’ rights activist Masoud Nikkhah is still in detention since May 1, when he was arrested for taking part in...

Ronak Rezaei, who was arrested during the protests over the Metropol building collapse, was transferred to Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz...