Political prisoners

The state security forces arrested dissident activist Majid Khademi on Wednesday, June 22 after he appeared in Branch 1 of...

Ayyub Porkar is spending his 14th year in prison without a single day off. Political prisoner Ayyub Porkar was banished...

Ten detained teachers, who have been held in Saqez Central Prison since June 15, started a hunger strike on Sunday...

A political activist who is serving his prison sentence in Mashhad’s Vakil Abad Prison in northeastern Iran has been deprived...

Authorities have banned political prisoner Saeed Eghbali from visits because of an open letter he wrote about executions in Rajai...

More than 200 political and civil activists and journalists signed a statement calling for the release of Keyvan Samimi, freedom...

Reza Shahabi, a leading member of an independent trade union in Iran, who has been detained since May 12, started...

An appeals court in Iran has upheld a 32-year prison sentence against university students Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi, according...

According to sources and human rights activists in Iran, several prisoners are currently on hunger strikes in various prisons across...

The health of a political prisoner with cancer is rapidly deteriorating as the authorities have stopped his lifesaving treatment. The...