Prominent Political Prisoner In Iran Finally Taken To Hospital For Surgery
Radiofarda - A prominent Iranian physicist and human rights activists, Nargess Mohammadi, who is a political prisoner, has been taken…
Human rights
A Qutb under House Arrest in Seventh Golestan
Radiozamaneh - Fifteen Gonabadi Dervishes who are political prisoners in Iran have gone on strike inside the prison to object…
Student Activist Parisa Rafiei Speaks Out Against Pressures Put On Political Prisoners
Iran-HRM - Student activist Parisa Rafiei published an open letter, condemning the recent arrests of labor activists and pressures exerted…
Iran: Labor Activists Detained Since May Day
HRW - Iranian authorities are holding at least eight activists and journalists arrested during a Labor Day protest on May 1,…
British Council Employee Aras Amiri Jailed for Refusing to Spy, Says Cousin
CHRI - The UK-based British Council employee Aras Amiri was jailed in Iran for refusing to spy for the country’s…
Government Unlawfully Failing to Implement Disability Rights Law
CHRI - A year after Parliament ratified the Law for the Protection of the Rights of Persons With Disabilities, the…
Students rally against hijab crackdown at Iran’s largest university
Al-Monitor - The campus of Tehran University, Iran's oldest modern educational center, had a tense dayMay 13 as hundreds of…
Iranian Students Protest Mandatory Headscarf Rule
VOA - Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency says university students have held a campus protest against authorities' increasing pressure on…
Iran: Parliament OKs Nationality Law Reform
HRW – Iran’s Parliament on May 13, 2019, approved an amendment to allow Iranian women to pass their nationality to their…
Paramilitary Force Attacks Tehran University Protest Against Hijab Enforcement Units
CHRI - Members of Iran’s paramilitary Basij force violently attacked several students at a peaceful protest at the University of…