Seven Years Later No Official Held Accountable for 5 Deaths and Torture of Dozens at Kahrizak
Iranhumanrighst.org - Families of the detainees who died after they were tortured in the Kahrizak Detention Center in 2009 and…
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Woman Sentenced to 6 years in Prison for Unpublished Story and Facebook Posts Rejects Prison Summons
Iranhumanrights.org - Four months after her husband was unexpectedly forced to begin serving his 19-year prison sentence for his peaceful…
Iran: 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman faces imminent execution after grossly unfair trial
Amnesty - The Iranian authorities must urgently halt their plans to execute Zeinab Sekaanvand, a 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish woman who was…
Imprisoned Editor Hospitalized After 18-Day Hunger Strike
Iranhumanrights.org - Open Letter Disproves Judicial Claim About Prisoners' Rights Imprisoned newspaper editor Ehsan Mazandarani, who recently wrote an open…
Report Cites Child Marriage For Girls As Major Problem
RFL/RE - A new report using UN statistics estimates there are about 700 million girls around the world who were…
Former Political Prisoner Transported from Workplace to Prison Without Summons
Iranhumanrights.org - Former political prisoner Navid Kamran has been transported to Evin Prison in Tehran to begin serving a one-year prison sentence…
Iran Rights Champion’s Latest Prison Term Aimed At ‘Instilling Fear,’ Says Exiled Husband
RFL/RE - When Narges Mohammadi's activist husband resolved in 2012 to leave Iran to escape yet another jail sentence connected…
Iran Temporarily Releases Hunger-Striking Journalist
RFL/RE - Iran has temporarily released a journalist for medical treatment after he suffered from health problems following a hunger…
Young Woman Arrested at 17 in Imminent Danger of Execution
Iran Human Rights - Zeinab Sekaanvand, who was 17 years old when she was arrested by Iranian authorities for the murder…
Iran says may limit death penalty for traffickers to drug lords
PayvandNews - The secretary of Iran's Human Rights Council has said Tehran may reconsider capital punishment for drug smugglers, limiting…