Tortured Prisoners

The 104th branch of a criminal court in western Iran sentenced a media activist to prison and lashes for “defaming” local officials.

Iran’s Criminal Court sentenced three political prisoners to a total of 150 lashes and nine months of prison in Urmia, northwestern Iran.

Two sisters were summoned by Oshnavieh Intelligence in northwestern Iran, where they were interrogated and tortured for eight hours to pressure their brother who is ...

Farideh Goudarzi, a member of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) since the 1979 revolution, revealed that in 1983 when she was heavily pregnant, ...

In a late June report, the London-based Amnesty International wrote in its comprehensive 45-page study about the "harrowing details of torture and other ill-treatment inflicted ...

Manouchehr Bakhtiari, the father of Pouya Bakhtiari, one of the victims of the November 2019 nationwide protests, was sentenced to imprisonment and exile.

Narges Mohammadi, a prominent human rights activist and deputy director of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, has been arrested in Iran.

According to local reports, nine Iranian political prisoners sentenced to death or long-term imprisonment in Mashhad Vakil Abad Prison in a letter asked international human ...

On Tuesday, Iran’s judiciary announced that a cleric, Mohammad Mossadegh Kahnemoui had been named first deputy chief justice. The appointment comes as the new chief ...