Oppressed Journalists

A Russian journalist has been arrested in the Iranian capital and kept in custody since earlier this week, the Russian embassy to Tehran said on ...

One-quarter of U.N. member states have carried out suspected reprisals against activists who cooperate with the world body on human rights issues, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio ...

Not long ago, Reporters Without Borders released its annual report on the World Press Freedom Ranking. In this report, Iran is ranked 170 out of ...

Four months after being arrested while covering a Labor Day protest, Journalist Marzieh Amiri has been sentenced to 10.5 years in prison and 148 lashes ...

An Iranian journalist, Amir Tohid Fazel, who was accompanying Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on his Scandinavian tour, refused to return to Iran and has ...

Satirist Keyomars Marzban has been sentenced to 23.3 years in prison in Iran for working for foreign media outlets, his lawyer Mohammad Hossein Aghasi told ...

Iranian authorities arrested Nooshin Jafari, a photojournalist and culture reporter, outside her home in Tehran on August 3 as she was on her way to ...

On Wednesday, August 7, the Iranian regime’s Appeals Court in Tehran sentenced Massoud Kazemi, a dissident journalist, to 4.5 years in prison