Political Prisoners

The situation for political prisoners in Iran is worsening. The Iranian authorities are under immense pressure – both on the international and domestic fronts – ...

It would seem that the Iranian regime is stepping up pressure against political prisoners by using non-political violent inmates to attack them

It would seem that the Iranian regime is stepping up pressure against political prisoners by using non-political violent inmates to attack them. There have been ...

The Iranian Human Rights News Agency, HRANA, reported on Wednesday July 10 that outspoken political activist Mohammad Nourizad, has been jailed.

On July 1, 2019, Gholam-Hossain Esmaili, spokesperson for the Iranian regime judiciary said in a television interview, “We don’t have political prisoners

In recent remarks on state television, the spokesperson for Iran’s hardline judiciary repeated a familiar regime talking point regarding the practice of political imprisonment

An imprisoned teachers’ rights activist in Iran is being denied the urgent specialized medical treatment he needs to treat a bone tumour in his left ...

On Tuesday, June 25, Iran’s police arrested an Iranian citizen, who immolated himself at the entrance of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology. According ...

Political prisoner Sohail Arabi, who has been on a hunger strike in protest to the lack of facilities and cruel treatment by wardens of the ...

The Iranian regime brought new bogus charges against two political prisoners and human rights activists earlier this year for daring to protest the executions of ...

It has been reported that Alireza Shir-Mohammad-Ali, a political prisoner that has been in prison in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary (also known as Fashafouyeh), was ...