Rights Activists

Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced Hirad Pirdaghi, Roham Yeganeh, and Farid Lotfabadi to imprisonment and lashes. According to this verdict, Hirad Pirdaghi was ...

On February 25, 2020, Bahareh Rashidnejad was sentenced to two years suspended imprisonment by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court for the charge of “insulting the Supreme Leader

On February 16, 2020, appeals court presided by Judge Yousef Khodadadi reduced Yousef Kari’s sentence to two years imprisonment

On February 21, 2020, Ahmad Yazdanipour was arrested by the intelligence department of IRGC in Tehran. One day after his arrest, the security forces searched ...

A letter signed by 14 civil rights activists was published in July-August of 2019 demanding resignation of Ayatollah Khamenei. After this letter was published, some ...

The Iranian security forces arrested a teachers’ rights activist at his home on Saturday, according to a statement by the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA), ...

Mohammad Taqi Fallahi is the secretary of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association, an independent entity which campaigns for higher salaries, better work conditions and improvement ...

An Appeals Court in Iran has upheld the prison sentences of three women rights activists for protesting compulsory hijab

Civil activist Rezvaneh Ahmad-Khanbeigi was sentenced to six years in prison by Branch 24 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran. She had been arrested at ...

Political prisoner Akbar Bagheri passed out on Sunday Jan 19th due to increased pain and anemia. He was transferred to the prison medic by other ...