Tortured Prisoners

At the end of every month, Iran Human Rights Monitor puts together a report on the human rights situation in Iran. We’ve condensed the findings ...

UN human rights experts on Tuesday called on Iranian authorities to immediately release filmmaker and political activist Mohammed Nourizad.

Three Iranians were sentenced to lashes for theft charges today in Tehran. According to Javan Online state-run website one of the defendants was detained in ...

After the mullahs took power in Iran in 1979, one of the main challenges of the country’s people became the culture, and the conflict of ...

The pair, charged with “participation in disrupting public order”, were sentenced to eight months in prison and 40 lashes last December. Their upheld sentence is ...

The Shahroud Criminal Court has sentenced 25-year-old Milad Nazeri and 26-year-old Seyed Shabir Hosseini Nik to a total of 72 lashes for their social media ...

The state security forces have paraded 34 young men in the streets to punish them for attending the Iranian fire festival which was heled on ...

Iranians launched a hashtag on Twitter on Wednesday to raise awareness about the state of a prominent dissident in prison whose life they say is ...

The plaintiffs in the case of “serial robberies” from western Tehran homes, requested finger amputation for the five accused people, an Iranian state-run News Agency ...

State-run media reported that eight people including one woman were sentenced to lashes by Iran’s Judiciary.