Political prisoners

As one of Iran's longest-serving female political prisoners, Maryam Akbari Monfared was legally due for release in 2019 after serving...

New Sentence Issued by Semnan Revolutionary Court Without Disclosure of Contents, Says Lawyer Hossein Taj Maryam Akbari Monfared, a political...

Protesters arrested during the 2022 uprising in Iran continue to face harsh sentences and ill-treatment. Ayoub Ghaibipour, a 30-year-old political...

Amir Moavi, a political prisoner in Iran, has been imprisoned for over 13.5 years without being granted a single day...

The Iranian judiciary has sentenced two grieving mothers, Mahboubeh Ramazani and Rahimeh Yousefzadeh, each to 1.5 years in prison for...

In a defiant statement issued from Evin Prison, political prisoner Behrouz Ehsani, who has been sentenced to death, declared that...

In a disturbing development, the Iranian judiciary has once again sentenced Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, a political prisoner and supporter...

In a recent ruling by Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Iman Afshari, eight political prisoners...

According to Iran Human Rights Society political prisoners Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi, detained in Evin Prison, have issued a...

Nassim Gholami Simiyari, a political prisoner, has spent more than 480 days in detention in the women’s ward of Evin...