Political prisoners

Jailed Iranian protester Hossein Hashemi detailed the poor conditions of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) in a letter published on...

Farzin Rezaei Roshan, a political prisoner who has been in prison since March 2020, has been transferred to Aminabad psychiatric...

A revolutionary court in Iran has sentenced to prison an Iranian lawyer for speaking to media outlets about one of...

Health fears for jailed activist Saba Kord Afshari on hunger strike Jailed women’s rights activist, Saba Kord Afshari went on...

Dangerous inmates in the political prisoners’ ward in the Central Prison of Urmia beat up and brutalized political prisoners Ebrahim...

Iranian authorities have threatened political prisoner Vahid Afkari, brother to executed wrestling champion Navid Afkari, that if he does not...

Jailed dissident Majid Khademi has been in limbo for 15 months in Behbahan Prison in Khuzestan Province. He has been...

Prison authorities have put Maryam Akbari Monfared, an Iranian dissident serving a 15-year sentence, under pressure in Semnan prison where...

Iranian authorities have sentenced two protesters arrested during the November 2019 anti-government protests that swept across Iran. Jalal Namdari and...

Political prisoner Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee has been sentenced in absentia to an additional one year in prison. Branch 26 of...