The Iranian authorities is still blocking the Provision of Security for Women against violence (PSW) bill, “expressing doubts over whether the heavy punishments stipulated in the bill for violations of women’s rights may actually weaken the family structure, i.e. putting a husband in jail for beating his wife”, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni... Read More

Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to immediately halt plans to execute three young men who are on death row for crimes that took place while they were under the age of 18. In a press release issued on 22 February, the London-based Amnesty International said it has learned that Mohammad Kalhori, Barzan... Read More

The vice president of the Free Union of Iranian Workers, Parvin Mohammadi, has been held incommunicado in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. During the past two weeks, Mohammadi has not been allowed to speak with her attorney or relatives on the phone. Mohammadi’s close relatives are very concerned about this labour activist health... Read More

Iranian authorities continue to arrest more environmental activists amid intimidate conservationists. The state security forces arrested several environmental activists during the past days in several cities and transferred them to unknown locations. According to reports, the officers who arrested the activists, searched their homes and... Read More

At least eight Christian converts were arrested in last month in Iran. Iran’s security officials have arrested three Christians of “House Church”, while their pastor is serving a ten-year imprisonment sentence. According to the reports, during a raid Intelligence agents entered the house shortly after the church service... Read More

Sahar Kazemi, a Kurdish civil activist, and environmentalist, was sentenced to five years in prison by the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj. Sahar Kazemi is a Kurdish environmental and civil activist and sports coach from Sanandaj capital city of Kurdistan province, western Iran. Over the past two years, she had been summoned several... Read More

The family of a young man who was sentenced to death at 15 years old were informed by prison authorities that their son would be executed soon. The man was sentenced to death in Iran despite the provincial state medical examiner’s report that Mohammad Kalhori was not mentally mature when he allegedly committed murder. Kalhori’s... Read More

  The state-run news agency, Asr Iran, has published a video about child labours who work in the streets to earn insignificant amounts of money, while are abused physically and sexually by municipality agents. In this video, one of the labour child girls says, “Me and my two brothers were doing our homework and at the same time... Read More

A young woman killed her two children before taking her own life on Sunday, 10 February, due to extreme poverty in western Iran. The young woman, Zahra Rahmati, is believed to have killed her two sons – 6 year old Ali-Reza and 3 year old Amir-Abbas – and then herself in the town of Sahneh in the western province of... Read More

Security forces of Qarchak Prison in Varamin, southeast of Tehran, cracked down on the inmates of this women’s prison on Thursday night local time, using tear gas and pepper spray, on Thursday 7 February. Wards 1 and 2 came under a vicious attack and reports indicate these attacks continued into Friday. Many female prisoners have been... Read More

Prison guards along with a number of Intelligence agents and prison warden attacked religious minority prisoners in Raja’i Shahr prison, in Karaj. It has been reported that, the anti-riot units used tear gas and attacked the prisoners, using batons. The legs of a number of them were broken in this attack. This raid, took place on the... Read More

Niloufar Bayani, a detained environmental activist in Iran, has said in a court sessions headed by judge Salavati that she has repeatedly been attacked and threatened by authorities and was forced to make confession. Ms. Biyani who has been held by IRGC intelligence for over a year now said: “The ‘confessions’ had been made under... Read More