Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, lawyer for Youcef Nadarkhani, a Protestant Christian pastor charged with apostasy, refuted reports by some media outlets… read more
Shabnam Madadzadeh was arrested on February 19, 2009 along with her brother Farzad Madadzadeh. She was arrested on her way… read more
UPDATE DECEMBER 29, 2012 Less than three months after being ordered to begin serving his nine-year prison sentence in Evin… read more
Kamiar and Arash Alaei, brothers bound by their dedication as doctors, made it their mission to educate Iranians about HIV… read more
Maryam Bidgoli, an Iranian women's rights activist and a member of the One Million Signatures Campaign to End Discriminatory Laws,… read more
July 29, 2011--Blogger Bahnam Darvishan was sentenced to three years in prison by the Revolutionary Court in Qazvin. He was… read more
Mehdi Mahmoudian is a journalist and a member of the "Association for the Defence of Political Prisoners and Human Rights… read more
Journalist, blogger and IRNA reporter Siamak Ghaaderi, age 43, was sentenced to 4 years in prison in January, 2011.Siamak Ghaaderi… read more
UPDATE AUGUST 10, 2106--Iran has handed down a three-year prison sentence to prominent reformist journalist Isa Saharkhiz. A court found… read more
Hamzeh Karami is the manager of the reformist Jomhouriat website and a senior official at the Islamic Azad University. Karami… read more