Authorities deny familial visit between cancer-afflicted prisoner of conscience and his detained wife
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – Arash Sadeghi and Golrokh Iraee, a husband-wife pair of civil rights activists currently serving…
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Judiciary Bodies Withhold News of at Least Eight Executions
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – At least eight death row prisoners in Karaj’s Rajai Shahr Prison were executed in…
Welfare Reps Presence Required at Job Interviews for People with Disabilities
CHRI - New Requirement Meant to Address Employment Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities (more…)
Iranian Women Face Uphill Battle Toward Equal Pay
bourseandbazaar - In recent months, longstanding social issues Iran have taken a back seat to major economic challenges such as…
Detained Sufis Kept in Solitary and Dangerous Wards for Refusing to “Express Remorse” for Peaceful Prison Protests
CHRI - A number of detained Sufi dervishes of the Gonabadi Order have been kept in solitary confinement or transferred…
Young Man Flogged In Qazvin For Cooperating Kurd Opposition Groups
Iran-HRM - On Wednesday September 5, a man was flogged in Qazvin Court, according to Kurdish human rights groups. (more…)
At Least Eight Prisoners Hanged In Rajai Shahr Prison
Iran-HRM - On Wednesday September 5, a group of eight prisoners were hanged in Rajai Shahr Prison. Charged with murder,…
HRW: Iran’s ‘Most Reputable Rights Defenders Are Now In Jail’
RFL/RE - With four more Iranian human rights defenders arrested in Tehran since August 31, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says…
Iran’s Student Activists Denied an Education
HRW - This time of year in Iran, graduate school applicants learn if they’ve been accepted into the programs they’ve…
Three Azerbaijani Activists Taken into Custody
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) Ulduz Ghasemi, Rahman Ghasemi, and Sahand Ma’ali, Azerbaijani Turkic minority rights activists from the cities…