Tortured Prisoners

Qarchak is an Iranian prison for women located in Qarchak district, in the Varamin neighborhood of Tehran. Iranian authorities reportedly practice extrajudicial killings, torture, and ...

On Thursday, December 9, state media aired a video showing forced confessions by two elite Iranian students Ali Younesi and Amir-Hossein Moradi.

To mark Human Rights Day, Amnesty International today launches its first-ever Persian-language website to increase access to information on rights violations in Iran amid an ...

According to reports, in November 2021, at least 28 people were executed in various prisons in Iran. Among those executed were two women and a ...

In the latest antigovernment protests by Iranians in the city of Isfahan, the people protested because of the drought of the city’s only river the ...

As the stoning sentence of Mrs. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has received increasing international attention, Iran Human Rights has published a short report on the sentence ...

Amid rising alarm about protesters held incommunicado, medics and activists fear injury and even permanent blindness from birdshot fired by security forces.

Amnesty International says two Iranian university students detained without trial for more than 1 1/2 years are at risk of being convicted in a “grossly ...

Responding to the arbitrary arrest of prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi on 16 November 2021 in Karaj, Alborz province, while attending a memorial for ...

A hacktivist group calling itself Edalat-e Ali (Ali's Justice) has rocked the Iranian establishment in recent months by leaking videos and confidential documents that appear ...

The following is a roundup of the human rights situation in Iran for the month of October 2021, based on information from activists and state ...