Political prisoners

Jailed human rights defender Arash Sadeghi, has had worsening health problems due to an infection on his shoulder that has...

Political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, in Sheiban Prison have gone on a hunger strike protesting the cruel prison conditions,...

Political prisoner Arzhang Davoudi has staged a hunger strike, protesting the cruel and inhuman conditions he has been forced to...

Two Sunni political prisoners went on hunger strike, protesting to the treatment of prisoners and their transfer to solitary confinement...

Prison guards, a number of Intelligence agents and prison warden attacked religious minority inmates in Raja'i Shahr prison in Karaj,...

Iran’s Chief Justice Sadeq Amoli Larijani claimed that there are no political prisoners in Iran. Amoli Larijani made the claim...

Environmental activist Niloufar Bayani announced that she had been beaten and brutalized, threatened and tortured on numerous occasions by the...

Gonabadi Dervish women held in Qarchak prison on January 31, 2019, wrote a letter to the prison’s warden Mohammadi to...

Reacting to an article published in the Iran official daily newspaper describing the situation of political prisoners as favorable, young...

Shokoufeh Yadollahi, a detained member of Iran's Gonabadi Dervish minority is believed to be in a critical health condition and...