Political prisoners

Jailed dissident Majid Khademi has been in limbo for 15 months in Behbahan Prison in Khuzestan Province. He has been...

Prison authorities have put Maryam Akbari Monfared, an Iranian dissident serving a 15-year sentence, under pressure in Semnan prison where...

Iranian authorities have sentenced two protesters arrested during the November 2019 anti-government protests that swept across Iran. Jalal Namdari and...

Political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee has been sentenced in absentia to an additional one year in prison. Branch 26 of...

The court hearing scheduled to examine charges leveled against two elite and award-winning students detained in a security ward was...

Three jailed political activists who were imprisoned in the Iranian city of Mashhad after signing an open letter calling on...

Political prisoner Farhad Salmanpour Zahir has been denied medical treatment despite suffering from medical conditions. Farhad Salmanpour who suffered severe...

More than seven months after the execution of wrestling champion Navid Afkari in September 2020, his two brothers Habib and...

Political prisoner Saeed Eghbali is being held in solitary confinement with two death-row prisoners after he was banished from Evin...

Prison authorities have refused to authorize temporary leave for a Kurdish political prisoner to attend his daughter's funeral. The kurdish...