Rights Activists

Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced workers’ rights activist Hirad Pirbodaghi to four years and eight months in prison, two years prohibition ...

On February 26, educator and civil activist Abbas Vahedian Shahroudi was hospitalized in critical condition in Mashhad City. However, on Monday, while he was in ...

On February 7, security forces arrested workers’ rights activist Alieh Eghdam Doost in Fuman City and transferred her to an unidentified location.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has condemned a new prison sentence handed to prominent Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi and called on Tehran to "immediately ...

Payam Derafshan was confined in a dark, windowless room inside a safe house run by the feared intelligence branch of Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards ...

Iranian civil rights lawyer Soheila Hejab started a hunger strike in prison to protest the Islamic Republic’s harassment of her and her family. Hejab currently ...

The state security forces raided the homes of detained lawyers two weeks after they were unlawfully arrested along with their colleagues.

Seven lawyers and civil activists were arrested by security forces yesterday when they went to file a complaint against the National Task Force Against Coronavirus ...

Three more human rights attorneys in Iran were handed unjust prison sentences in July 2021 amid an ongoing campaignto eliminate due process for activists and ...