Last Saturday, Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi announced that on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will pardon 100…
August 17, 2011 It appears that water fighting and water guns are becoming sensitive issues in Iran. Earlier this month, a number of young people were arrested in Tehran after taking…
July 25th, 2009 marked the first Global Day of Action, during which tens of thousands of people across a hundred cities came together in solidarity with the people of Iran.…
Written by: Elise Auerbach, Iran & Jordan Country Specialist, Amnesty International USA Shortly after the Iranian Revolution in 1979, authorities renamed a large public square in Tehran Meidan-e Azadi, or Azadi…
The Green Wave is a documentary about the 2009 protests in Iran. Amy Costello talks to Ali Samadi Ahadi about the film, which is playing at the Human Rights Watch…
The Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency (IRNA) reported on the execution of two political prisoners, Jafar Kazemi and Mohammad Ali Haji Aghaee. One of the pieces of evidence introduced…
While news reports indicate that Jafar Kazemi’s execution orders have been forwarded to Evin Prison’s “Sentence Implementation Unit,” and he is in danger of imminent execution, a human rights activist…
By NAZILA FATHI Published: March 15, 2010 Six people arrested in December protests will be put to death, Iranian authorities announced Monday, in what appeared to be strong warning to…
8 March 2010 The Barcelona city council has approved an institutional statement in favor and support of human rights in Iran. The text of the statement is below (translated from…
In a shocking statement, a cleric named Seyed Hamid Rohani told the radical pro-government newspaper, Vatan-e Emrooz, that dissidents should be executed en mass. Rohani is introduced in the article…
