Tortured Prisoners

June 26 marked the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, commemorated on the anniversary of the implementation of the United Nations Convention against ...

A 20 year old female political prisoner detained in a southwestern Iran prison, was severely beaten and mistreated by prison guards. According to an Iranian ...

A 28-year-old detainee from the Ahvazi Arab minority, has been died under suspicious circumstances in a detention centre in Ahvaz, in south western Iran, according ...

The head of the Arak Veterinary announced over the weekend that an Iranian citizen was sentenced to 148 lashes

Civil activist Soheil Arabi has been taken to the dispensary of Fashafouyeh Prison (a.k.a the Greater Tehran’s Penitentiary) after his health critically deteriorated since Saturday, ...

An Iranian political prisoner committed suicide on Saturday in the notorious Gohardasht Prison saying that he could no longer stand the inhumane treatment, and the ...

A court in Tehran has sentenced a student of painting at the University of Tehran to 35 lashes on the charges of 'insulting' a filmmaker

On Tuesday, the US State Department released a statement responding to the Iranian government’s release of Nizar Zakka, one of several persons with US citizenship ...

Iranian authorities are refusing to allow a prisoner of conscience to be transferred to the hospital despite her deteriorating health conditions