Seven prominent women activists and journalists who had been detained were released from Tehran’s Evin prison, on Thursday. In a video taken moments after their release, they are seen defiantly …
Women activists chant anti-regime slogans outside prison, right after their release Read More
By Mohammad Zarghami and Michael Scollon Source: RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty (RFE/RL) Since she was first jailed in 2018 for covering labor strikes at a local sugar factory, journalist and activist Sepideh Gholian has …
‘Threatened With Death And Rape’: Iranian Activist Back Behind Bars After Exposing Prisoner Abuse Read More
Source: Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) Several inmates convicted of violent crimes recently beat political prisoner Soheila Hijab while she was on a hunger strike in Gharchak Prison in …
Soheila Hijab Beaten in Garchak Prison While on Hunger Strike Read More
Source: Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) According to HRANA, the news agency of Human Rights Activists, Ms. Arabshahi had been on medical leave since August 4. Ms. Arabshahi’s medical …
Monireh Arabshahi forcefully transferred from the hospital back to Prison Read More
Source: DeutscheWelle (DW) Nahid Taghavi was arrested in October 2020 in Tehran and had been in custody ever since. Taghavi is a human rights advocate in Iran. A German-Iranian woman …
Iran sentences German human rights advocate to 10 years in prison over ‘propaganda’ Read More
Source: RadioFarda Translated by AIW staff Nargess Mohammadi: After the November 2010 massacre (of protesters), I was in Evin Prison at the time, and along with four other detainees, we …
An interview with activist Nargess Mohammadi Read More
Source: RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty (RFE/RL) Akram Neghabi has been searching for her son for more than two decades, despite threats, state pressure, and numerous futile attempts to get information from Iranian officials. …
‘They Don’t Want His Name To Be Heard’: One Iranian Mother’s 21-Year Search For Her Son Read More
Source: The New York Times By Megan Specia The British-Iranian woman has been detained in Tehran for five years on charges of plotting to overthrow the government, accusations that her …
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Is Freed by Iran but Not Yet Cleared to Return to U.K. Read More
Source: RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty (RFE/RL) By: Golnaz Esfandiari Despite being repeatedly threatened by Iran’s security apparatus, harassed, sent to prison multiple times, and prevented from seeing her children, the authorities have failed …
In Or Out Of Jail, Veteran Iranian Human Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi Won’t Be Silenced Read More
Source: RadioFarda Mariam Claren, the daughter of Iranian-German dual citizen Nahid Taghavi, is speaking out after her mother was detained by Iranian security forces at her home in Tehran on …
Iranian-German Activist Arrested In Tehran Read More