Rights Activists

On the night of Tuesday, August 27, Zartosht Ahmadi-Ragheb was arrested at a raid to his home by security forces. Agents have also seized all ...

The world is turning a blind eye to mass enforced disappearances in Iran, the London-based Amnesty International (AI) says in its latest statement

Hundreds of Tehran University students have protested recent harsh verdicts issued against their fellow students arrested during protests in early 2018

The Appeals Court has upheld a preliminary court verdict against a former supporter of the Islamic Republic's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for disseminating dissident ...

Iran’s Judiciary sentenced a teacher to eight months in prison and 10 lashes for participating in a demonstration by teachers and education workers

An outspoken lawmaker in Iran has demanded the Intelligence Ministry to apologize to people it forced to confess to crimes they did not commit

Animal rights defenders held a gathering outside Tehran’s municipality headquarters for a second day in a row on August 19 to protest the killing of ...

A well-known and outspoken professor at Tehran University says he has received another prison term for expressing his opinions

The family of labor activist Roham Yeganeh has not heard from him since he was arrested in front of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran on ...

In the clampdown against dissidents in Iran, another activist who signed a letter asking for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to resign, has been arrested

The regime’s Appeals Court in Tehran Province upheld the conviction of student activist Sina Darvish Omran