Political prisoners

Political prisoner Leila Chegini, 43, has been on a hunger strike since April 27 in Nowshahr Prison in northern Iran....

Political prisoner Soada Khadirzadeh has been on a hunger strike since April 26, to protest seven months of temporary detention...

Two award-winning students, Amir Hossein Moradi and Ali Younesi received 16 years in prison, each in their preliminary trial. The...

Jailed human rights activist Behnam Behnam Musivand has been on hunger strike since April 19. He is protesting beatings by...

Political prisoner Khadijeh Mehdipour has been denied medical treatment despite severe digestive problems. She suffers from severe nausea when eating...

A Kurdish political prisoner has said that she has been threatened to make confessions. Golaleh Moradi sent an audio file...

Political prisoner Mehdi Salehi Ghaleh Shahrokhi who was sentenced to death for taking part in peaceful protests, died in a...

More than two years after agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry arrested and tortured university students Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi,...

Saeed Afkari, the outspoken brother to executed protester and wrestling champion Navid Afkari wrote his brother Vahid was attacked in...

In a letter from Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, a jailed civil activist who has been deprived of medical leave...