University: Iran Denies Appeal of Jailed Princeton Student
VOA - Iranian authorities have denied the appeal of a Princeton University student who had been convicted on espionage charges and…
Month: August 2017
Imprisoned Activist Atena Daemi Slapped With New Charge For Demanding Medical Care
CHRI - Activist Denied Care Despite Medical Examiner's Recommendation Already serving a seven-year prison sentence, imprisoned children's rights activist Atena Daemi…
800 Activists Urge Iranian Parliament to End Child Marriage
CHRI - Hundreds of Iranian women and children's rights advocates in Iran are urging Parliament to prohibit underage marriage in the…
Iranian Women’s Rights Activist to Serve Three Years in Prison For Attending Seminar
CHRI - Women's rights activist and photojournalist Alieh Matlabzadeh has been sentenced to three years in prison by a preliminary court…
Sunni Arabs Beaten and Arrested in Iran For Praying in Public
CHRI - Thirteen Sunni Arabs have been beaten by security and plainclothes agents and arrested for publicly praying in Ahvaz, the…
Richard Ratcliffe Turns to UN and UK to Secure Wife’s Release From Iran
CHRI - After exhausting all legal avenues in Iran to overturn the five-year prison sentence issued in a secret trial against…
Iran opposition leader ends hunger strike
Al-monitor - Mehdi Karroubi, the 79-year-old leader of the Green Movement that emerged out of Iran's highly charged 2009 presidential election,…
Iranian labor market on path to gender transformation
Al-monitor — Iranian society has undergone tremendous change in past decades, with women continuously playing a role in this transformation. Indeed,…
Iran Opposition Figure Karrubi Ends Hunger Strike
RFL/RE - Iranian opposition figure Mehdi Karrubi, who has been under house arrest for more than six years, has ended a…
Iranian Government Responds to the Demand of the Hunger Striking Opposition Leader
Radiozamaneh - Government of Hassan Rouhani has responded to the demands of Mehdi Karroubi, an opposition leader who was on hunger…