Political prisoners

Two inmates named Hossein and Asgar Taghavi, imprisoned in Tabriz Central Prison, northwest of Iran, went to the prison emergency...

Political prisoner Mohammadali Mansouri has been denied furlough and release on bail despite being imprisoned for nine years and suffering...

Political prisoners Khaled Heradani and Ebrahim Firouzi wrote a letter to Asma Jahangir, the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights...

Iran’s judicial authorities treat political prisoners like dangerous criminals, imposing inhuman conditions and mental tortures on them.   Majid Asadi,...

A human rights activist and child rights advocate has launched a hunger strike protesting prison sentences issued for her sisters,...

Iranian political prisoners are being placed under increased pressure by the authorities, according to recently released reports. Political prisoner Vahid...

Political prisoners and prisoners of conscience are being put under pressure by prison authorities through being denied furlough or sick...

Political prisoner Khaled Heradani went on a two-day hunger strike protesting to not releasing Shahram Pour Mansouri and Rasoul Heradani....

Political prisoner Ali Moezzi has been held in solitary confinement for three months and under ongoing interrogations and inhuman conditions...

A prisoner suffering from lung and lymphoma cancer is being denied medical furlough despite medics ordered to release him, according...