“Cookie Distribution,” Other Peaceful Activities Get Elderly Tehran Bus Driver 5+ Years in Prison
CHRI - Tehran bus union activist Ebrahim Madadi has lost his appeal against the five-year, three-month prison sentence he was issued for…
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People With Albinism Struggle to Access Crucial Treatment and Support in Iran
CHRI - A recent speech by a UN official calling on countries with hot climates to implement measures that would…
Sufi Prisoner’s Life Is In Danger Two Months Into Hunger Strike
Iran-HRM - Iranian authorities are deliberately depriving Sufi prisoner Saeid Soltanpour from the medical care he desperately needs 65 days…
Iran’s Court Rejects Complaint Over Morality Police Physically Attacking Women
Iran-HRM - The complaint of two young woman which they had filed against Iran’s Morality Police beating them for ‘Insufficient’…
Iran: Protesters Sentenced in Unfair Trials
HRW – Iran’s judiciary convicted at least 24 protesters on vaguely defined national security charges, Human Rights Watch said today. Their prison…
Azerbaijani Activist Arrested in Northwest Iran
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- Security agents arrested Azerbaijani activist and Tabriz resident Gholamreza Rashidi on Sunday, October 28th and…
Hand Amputation Raises Specter of Cruel and Unusual Punishments
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Morteza Esmaeilian, 37, a married father of two from Urmia, was arrested in 2013…
Dervishes Convicted To More Than 1,000 Years In Prison
Radiofarda - More than 200 Gonabadi dervishes have been sentenced to more than 1000 years of prison time, the Human…
Civil Azerbaijani Activists Tortured By Intelligence Agents In Iran
Iran-HRM - Ministry of Intelligence agents violently attacked two female Azerbaijani Turkic activists in an attempt to extract false confessions,…
Rajai Shahr Prisoner Enters 38th Day of Hunger Strike
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- Rajai Shahr Prisoner Hamzeh Darvish, 24, a member of Iran’s Sunni religious minority, has been…