Oppressed Journalists

Recently, journalist Gholam-Hossein (Sina) Ghalandari was sentenced to 27 months in prison and a two year ban from journalistic work after publicizing the “honor killing” ...

Iranian authorities must release journalist Manoochehr Aghaei immediately and unconditionally, and cease jailing members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Journalists imprisoned in Iran are being denied basic human rights, including medical treatment, visits from their families and phone calls, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said ...

Following turnover in the Tehran-Municipality-owned Hamshahri newspaper’s managerial board, the extension of staff members’ contracts is being influenced by answers they give to a set ...

Iranian authorities should immediately release photojournalist Majid Saeedi, drop any charges against him, and let him work freely, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Iranian journalist Masoud Kazemi was exultant when he was released from Tehran's notorious Evin prison in April 2020.

In a statement Wednesday, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), an NGO, urged the Iranian authorities to release arrested journalist and labor activist, ...

According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, Amirabbas Azarmvand was arrested at his home in Tehran at 8:30 am, on September 1.

The sentencing this month of two journalists in Iran’s Kurdish region underscores the pressures for the region’s media.

Roozbeh Piri, a journalist and civil activist living in Tabriz, was fined this week for posting images to Instagram showing the effects of physical torture ...