UPDATE--On July 20 and 21 2014 the Revolutionary Court put Journalist Saba Azarpeik on trial. Each session lasted four hours.… read more

UPDATE FEBRUARY 18, 2016--AMIR GOLESTANI LAUNCHES PRISON HUNGER STRIKE An Iranian activist imprisoned for his social media activity has gone… read more

UPDATE August 12, 2014--The youths involved in making the “Happy in Tehran” dance video will be collectively put on trial… read more

May 7, 2014--Two leading workers’ rights activists, arrested by security forces in Tehran at an International Labor Day gathering on… read more

Majzooban, May 7, 2014-- The Tehran Revolutionary Court has sentenced Gonabadi Dervish, Ali Karami three year of imprisonment. According to… read more

UPDATED June 16, 2014 -- Iranian reformist journalist Hossein Noorani Nejad has been sentenced to six years in prison by… read more

On April 12, 2014 it was announced that Iranian-Kurdish human rights lawyer Masoud Shamsenjad had been indicted on "propaganda" charges.… read more

Alireza Sepahi Laeen is an Iranian Kurdish author and poet, born on July 30, 1972. He was arrested near Mashhad… read more

UPDATE AUGUST 25 2016-- A British woman initially sentenced to 20 years and later reduced to 7 years in prison… read more

FEBRUARY 20, 2014: Mashhad Intelligence agents arrested Rouhollah Tavana, 34, at his home in Mashhad in October 2011. According to… read more