Political prisoners

Court of Appeals upheld 10-and-a-half-year prison sentence for jailed teacher Mohammad Habibi. Branch 36 of the Tehran's Court of Appeals...

The Office of the Prosecutor in the city of Karaj has refused to authorize hospital transfers for prisoner of conscience...

Vahid Sayadi Nasiri, an Iranian political activist, who had currently been held in Qom Prison, died today on 60th day...

Sources say political prisoner Arzhang Davoodi was beaten and thrown off a staircase and broken his two legs and shoulder...

Hengameh Vahedian, daughter of rights’ activist, Abbas Vahedian, addressed the European Union representatives and Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in...

Imprisoned Lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh started a second hunger strike on Monday, November 26, 2018, protesting the Iranian authorities’ refusing...

Iranian political prisoner Soheil Arabi, imprisoned for his social media postings since November 2013, sent a message from the Great...

Three women from Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish religious minority community, imprisoned in Qarchak Prison of Varamin, were reportedly attacked and beaten...

Political prisoner Arzhang Davoudi, held in the quarantine section of the Zahedan prison is reportedly under torture is reportedly under...

Critically ill human rights defender Arash Sadeghi held at Raja’i Shahr prison, is under increasing pressure by Iranian regime officials.  Despite...