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Religious and Ethnic Minorities

Following days of protests by workers of Iran National Steel Group southwest Iran, the anti riot police attacked the demonstration....

Motocross champion Shahrzad Nazifi arrested in Iran for being a Baha’i

Shahrzad Nazifi, a motocross champion, was arrested on Sunday, November 18, 2018, by security forces in Tehran and taken to...

Iran: political prisoners kept in indefinite solitary confinement

Political prisoner Arzhang Davoudi, held in the quarantine section of the Zahedan prison is reportedly under torture is reportedly under...

Political prisoner Arash Sadeghi deprived of cancer treatment

Religious and Ethnic Minorities

Critically ill human rights defender Arash Sadeghi held at Raja’i Shahr prison, is under increasing pressure by Iranian regime officials. Despite...

Christian converts arrested after their calls intercepted by Iran intelligence

November 23, 2018

Two Christian converts in Iran, have been recently arrested in the cities of Karaj and Mashhad. Behnam Ersali who was...

Defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh sues Evin Prison officials

Religious and Ethnic Minorities

November 23, 2018

Prominent human rights lawyer who has been imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin Prison since June 2018 filed a complaint against the...

Eight members of Iran’s Baha’i religious minority sentenced to prison

November 22, 2018

In a wave of persecution of Baha'is in Iran, eight members of Baha'i community in Isfahan, were sentenced to a...

Women political prisoner Atena Daemi summoned to Prosecutor’s Office

Right to Peaceful Protest

November 22, 2018

Atena Daemi held in the women's ward of Evin Prison was verbally notified on November 13, 2018, by the prison...

Workers’ representatives arrested at Haft Tappeh sugar mill strike

November 18, 2018

Labor rights groups in Iran have reported that security forces attempted to violently repress protests at the Haft Tappeh sugarcane...

Iranian children denied education because they can’t afford shoes