Tortured Prisoners

On June 26, political prisoner Kamran Ghasemi was beaten by prison officers after objecting to the inappropriate treatment of his family by the agents during ...

Afkari brothers have been tortured in Shiraz solitary confinement for months. Vahid and Habib Afkari are brothers of the wrestling champion Navid Afkari, who have ...

The Human Rights Watch (HRW) accused Iran’s security and intelligence apparatus, in partnership with the judiciary, of harshly cracking down on dissent, including through excessive ...

The Zahedan Revolutionary Court in southeastern Iran sentenced 14 people to a total of 450 lashes among other punishments on June 24.

This time the issue of Iran’s presidential election and the presidency of Ebrahim Raisi is far beyond a normal election in which somebody promised the ...

When Ebrahim Raisi was declared winner of Iran’s June 18 presidential election, the world quickly turned its attention to the effect this will have on ...

A Tehran prosecutor has reportedly requested the death sentence for a middle-aged man in Tehran for drinking alcohol.

On June 20 and June 21, political prisoners Mohammad Hossein Sepehri and Kamal Jafari Yazdi were beaten in Vakilabad prison in Mashhad.

In the latest report on Iran by the UN Secretary-General, the world’s top diplomat stated that the rights situation in Iran “remains of serious concern” ...

According to the report by the Baloch Campaign website, the man was identified as Masoud Kahanky-Gongi. Masoud was arrested with another person the day before ...

Arman Farahmand, a teenager accused of murder, went on a hunger strike and sewed his lips to protest the authorities’ failure to handle his case.