Tag: political prisoners

Human rights lawyer Khosro Alikordi dies suddenly after sustained state pressure, prompting prison protests, a nationwide lawyers’ statement, and scrutiny ...

Iranian security forces raided and detained several critical scholars, targeting a broad progressive intellectual current to shrink cultural space and ...

On November 3, 2025, Iranian security forces detained several prominent researchers, economists, and translators in Tehran over their work on ...

The death of 42-year-old political prisoner Somayeh Rashidi after denied medical care in Qarchak Prison has triggered outrage from current ...

“My father has been condemned to death,” wrote Zhino Beigzadeh Babamiri, daughter of Kurdish-Iranian political prisoner Rezgar Beigzadeh Babamiri, in ...

Amnesty International has called for the immediate release and annulment of the death sentence of Ahmad Reza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish ...

Sharifeh Mohammadi, an Iranian social and labor activist, was sentenced to death on July 4, 2024, by the first branch ...

Mohammad Habibi recently announced on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he appeared in the Shahryar Revolutionary Court. This court ...

Mehrshad Kalini, an Iranian physician, was also arrested by the police of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He was protesting ...

In a detailed interview conducted by the Islamic Republic's official news agency (IRNA), Seyyed Mahmoud Alavi, the former Minister of ...