Human rights

Slain Protester’s Father Arrested at Son’s Grave in Iran

Iranwire - Iranian security forces have arrested Saeed Farokhipour, father of slain protester Amir Mehdi Farokhipour, while he was visiting…

Iranwire - Further diminishing Iran's press freedom, the Islamic Republic has prosecuted at least 91 journalists, media activists, and media…

Iranwire - At least 18 prisoners were executed in Iranian prisons during March, according to the Hengaw Human Rights Organization. …

Iranwire - Hasti Amiri and Zia Nabavi, student activists who protested the mass poisoning of schoolchildren, were ordered to report…

Iranwire - Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a commander of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed in a suspected Israeli…

Iranwire - The Tehran Criminal Court has sentenced Shahriar Bayat, a 64-year-old political prisoner, to death on charges of allegedly…

CHRI – The ongoing state persecution of Mashallah Karami, whose son was unlawfully executed following protests that erupted across Iran…

RFL/RE - Iran’s “decades-long systematic repression” of the Baha’i community “amounts to the crime against humanity of persecution,” Human Rights…

Iranwire - Every spring, as temperatures rise, the Islamic Republic tightens its repressive laws on women's attire. However, during Nowruz…

Iranwire - Raheleh Rahemipour, a civil rights activist imprisoned in Tehran's Evin prison, is in critical condition after being denied…