Iranian truck drivers strike for 10 consecutive days

Fist of August 2018, is the tenth day of the nationwide strike by truck drivers in Iran. The strike continues in many major cities of Iran including Ahvaz, Khoramshar, Kermanshah, Ardebil, Khoram Abad and many other cities.... Read More

Arash Sadeghi is still deprived of Medical Care

Arash Sadeghi is still deprived of medical care, after being transferred to Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj. It is said that IRGC interrogators are preventing him to have medical treatment. He is suffering from several diseases such as digestive complications due to his 71-day hunger strike, but the authorities do not allow him to be sent to... Read More

Ali Moezzi was released from prison

Ali Moezzi, a political prisoner detained in Tehran's Grand Prison, was released at the end of his sentence, on Tuesday 24 July. Ali Moezzi was supposed to be released in June last year, at the end of his imprisonment sentence, but he was faced with a new case during his detention on charges of “propaganda against the regime” from... Read More

People of Borazjan protest against power and drinking water outage

The brave people of Borazjan (southern Iran) protested against lack of drinking water and clashed with the repressive forces that were trying to disperse them. They expressed their protest by lighting fire on the Borazjan-Bushehr road, on Sunday, 22 July, 2018. In the extreme heat of the region, the people of Borazjan are deprived of... Read More

Teacher’s Union Leader on trial for peacefully advocating teachers’ rights in Iran

Mohammad Habibi, a member of the board of directors of the Teacher’s Trade Union and Teachers’ rights activist went trial at the Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, for the charges of “assembly and collusion against national security,” “propaganda against the state” and “disturbing public order,” the charges which... Read More

Zeynab Jalalian: “Together against the execution”

Zeynab Jalalian, Kurdish political prisoner in Iran, in an open letter, has called for spreading protests with the aim of abolishing the death sentence in Iran. Zeynab Jalalian had been sentenced to death but her sentence was reduced to life time imprisonment after 4 years. She has expressed her concern about the death sentence of political... Read More

A man was flogged 80 times in Iran, for drinking alcohol 11 years ago, in 2006

According to Amnesty International, a young man convicted of consuming alcohol when he was about 14 or 15 years old, more than a decade ago, shows the inhumanity of Iran justice system that legalizes brutality. He was sentenced to 80 times lashes in public. According to this news, Philip Luther, Research and Advocacy Director for the... Read More

Amnesty International: Nasrin Sotoudeh a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer was arrested

According to Amnesty International Nasrin Sotoudeh a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer was arrested. In an article titled; Iran: 'Vindictive' arrest of prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, Amnesty International says: The arrest of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer, is an outrageous attack on a brave and... Read More

Three Sunni prisoners were convicted after 9 years

Three Sunni prisoners were sentenced to death and 20 years imprisonment, after 9 years remain in a state of uncertainty. They have been held in Uromieh prison since 2009, and their verdict was communicated to them on 8th July. Kamran Sheikheh is sentenced to death, and Anvar Khezri along with Khosro Besharat were sentenced to 10 years... Read More

Borazjan people demonstration

People of Borazjan city, southern Iran, have been suffering from the lack of drinking water since 3rd July and they began to protest against the disastrous situation on 7th July. The protest started from Hospital Square and people chanted; Leave Syria- think about us, Neither Gaza nor Lebanon- my life is for Iran, Don’t scared- Don’t... Read More

Water crisis in Iran

Iranian people are suffering from the severe water shortage crisis as one of their super challenges, considering the importance of this subject. Mehr news agency reports less than 40 present of Iran’s 66 large dams to have water these days. Furthermore, more than 80 percent of the country’s wetlands have dried, now becoming fountains... Read More

The Free Iran Gathering

People and Human Rights activists inside Iran showed their solidarity with the Free Iran Gathering by writing slogans and posting posters on walls in different cities in Iran. Every year in June, since 2004, Iranians travel across the world for an annual convention hosted by The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Paris, to show... Read More

The lawyer of executed Dervish was arrested for asserting her client was innocent

Zeinab Taheri, the lawyer of Mohammad Salas, who was executed on Monday, 18 June, has been arrested for telling media that her client was innocent and should not have been executed. In this regard Philip Luther, Amnesty International’s Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: “It’s telling that... Read More

Gang rape of more than 40 women by Iran regime agents outraged local residents

Atmosphere in the city of Iranshahr, Southeast Iran, has been very tense. A mass rape case, involving more than 40 women and girls in Iranshahr, Southeast Iran, by a gang which is supported by the Iranian authorities, has caused growing anger in local people. According to the victims, the Iranian military and security forces were... Read More