URGENT UPDATE DECEMBER 145, 2016--After 43 days on hunger strike, political prisoner Ali Shariati, a long-time supporter of President Hassan… read more
UPDATE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2016: Iranian fimmaker Keywan Karimi said Monday that an appeals court had sentenced him to a… read more
Hassan Tafah, 86-year-old prisoner in Rajaee Shahr prison, despite suffering from leukemia and having a punishment intolerance order, still remains… read more
Nearly two months after the arrest of information technology expert Arash Azad, who was detained at Imam Khomeini Airport by… read more
June 23, 2015--Iranian Ahwazi Arab poet and cultural activist Ahmad Hazbawi, who has a six-year-old child, was arrested by Intelligence… read more
JUNE 19, 2015--Ten months after his arrest, children’s rights activist Omid Alishenas has been sentenced to ten years in prison… read more
Hesam-Aldin Farzizadeh, an Expelled student in the field of nuclear physics of Mohaghegh University in the city of Ardebil, Iran… read more
UPDATE July 4, 2015--Civil and political activist Minoo Mortazi Langroudi has launched an appeal against the six-year prison sentence she… read more
UPDATE: June 17, 2015--Mohammad Moghimi has been released on bail. While we are relieved that he is no longer locked… read more
Khodamorad Azizi was arrested by the security forces officials on the charge of propaganda against the regime of Iran and… read more
