Political prisoners

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...

Iranian authorities have deliberately deprived prisoner of conscience Majid Asadi of the special medical care he requires. Majid Asadi, having...

Imprisoned human rights lawyer Mohammad Najafi has been slapped with additional time after being tried last week, according to his...

With the public outcry over torture in Iran’s detention centers, Farangis Mazloumi mother of political prisoner Soheil Arabi, recounts her...

Payam Derafshan, an attorney to the prominent Iranian civil rights activists and lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, announced on January 14, 2019,...