Tortured Prisoners

In reports recently leaked from the Dolatabad Women’s Prison in Isfahan have indicated that the conditions inside the are so appalling and harsh inside the ...

A prominent defense attorney in Iran bit off part of his tongue after being forcibly given an injection that brought on seizures while detained by ...

The Ardabil Criminal Court sentenced twelve Azari activists to a total of 15 years of prison and 888 lashes yesterday in northwestern Iran.

Amnesty International urged Iran's judiciary on Wednesday (October 13) to fully investigate the "suspicious" death of inmate Shahin Naseri in custody.

A court in Iran has sentenced a man to be blinded as punishment for leaving his neighbour unable to see in one eye during a ...

This summer, ultra-hardliner cleric Ebrahim Raisi took office as President. Major human rights organizations have listed him as a major perpetrator of the massacre of ...

In a rare ruling, an Iranian man who blinded his neighbor during a fight in 2018 has been sentenced to be blinded based on the ...

UN human rights experts* today urgently appealed to Iran to halt the execution of Arman Abdolali, convicted for an alleged murder committed...

October 10 is World Day Against the Death Penalty. More than 140 countries have agreed to abolish the death penalty, according to Amnesty International. The ...

The ill-treatment of prisoners in Iran has once again been brought to light in the past month with the deaths of four prisoners who lost ...