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…
Human rights
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…
IRAN: IMMINENT EXECUTION OF 22-YEAR-OLD IRANIAN WOMAN: ZEINAB SEKAANVAND LOKRAN
Amnesty - Zeinab Sekaanvand Lokran, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, is at risk of execution following an unfair trial in…
Iran Refuses to Release Prisoner of Conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri
PayvandNews - When Iranian officials come to the United Nations, they are usually met with questions about their human rights…
Execution Looms for Iranian Child Bride
HRW.org - On September 30, a young woman delivered a stillborn child in Euromieh central prison, in northern Iran. That…
Iran: Writer facing imminent imprisonment for story about stoning
Amnesty - Iranian authorities must immediately repeal the conviction and sentence of Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, a writer and human rights…
Imprisoned Journalist Begins Hunger Strike on Hospital Bed
Iranhumanrights.org - Hospitalized political prisoner and prominent reformist journalist Issa Saharkhiz began a hunger strike on October 2, 2016, to…
“We have our own reading of human rights.”
Radiozmaneh - Sadeq Ardeshir Larijani, head of the judicial system of Islamic Republic of Iran: "We have our own reading…