Political Prisoners

A prison sentence imposed on January 15, 2022, against a prominent rights defender demonstrates Iranian authorities’ commitment to crush any grassroots human rights efforts, Human ...

Reporters Without Borders has expressed concern for the lives of three jailed political activists in Iran who have been transferred to detention centers known to ...

An Iranian court has sentenced leading human rights campaigner Narges Mohammedi to eight years in prison and over 70 lashes, her husband announced on Sunday, ...

Vafaei, aged 26, a boxing champion from Mashhad, was arrested in March 2020 on the charges of supporting the Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin ...

Political activist, Mohammad Javad Vafai was sentenced to death by Mashhad’s Revolutionary Court on the charge of “spreading corruption on earth”.

Six political prisoners imprisoned at the Greater Tehran Penitentiary were taken to court on January 8 to face new charges, just months after they were ...

Six political prisoners who were betaen by violent criminals hired by authorities at the Greater Tehran Penitentiary went to court to face new charges.

Babak Paknia, the lawyer representing political prisoner Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani said in a tweet today that his client has been sentenced to death for ...

In 1981, at the age of 15 years old, former political prisoner Akbar Samadi was arrested by Iranian security forces for supporting the Iranian opposition, ...