Omid Sarlak, a young Iranian activist was found dead hours after he burned a photo of the IR's Supreme Leader. His killing has sparked outrage among Iranians inside & outside the country, many of whom are now burning images of Khamenei in protest. I report

Iranian attorney Saeed Sheikh has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, a fine, and one year’s suspension from practicing law, with 12 months of the prison term suspended, according to his post on social media. 🔸 Sheikh said the Khavaran Court issued the sentence over his

Forough Khosravi, an elementary school teacher from Behbahan, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by Branch 1 of the Behbahan Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Moradian. According to reports, the charges stem from private text messages with a family member and

Iranian authorities have intensified their assault on civil society by arbitrarily arresting child rights defender Hossein Mirbahari and shuttering the Society for the Protection of Child Laborers and Street Children—one of the country’s oldest and most respected NGOs defending

Ali Aghajeri Peyvand, a 22-year-old from the Lor ethnic group, was executed at dawn on October 20, 2025, in Sepidar Prison, Ahvaz, for a crime committed when he was 17, in violation of international law. He had been sentenced to death five years earlier following a group

Political prisoner Omid Fathi, held in Vakilabad Prison, Mashhad, sustained an eye injury after being beaten by prison security officers on Friday, October 17, sources told HRANA. His pre-existing spinal disc condition has reportedly worsened, and he is currently denied phone

سرکوب فراملی: تهدید، آزار رساندن و آسیب زدن به افراد توسط حکومت‌ها در خارج از مرزهایشان، پدیده‌ی جدیدی نیست اما این اصطلاح به تدریج بیشتر شناخته می‌شود. تاکتیک‌های به‌کار رفته از سوی جمهوری اسلامی ایران در این زمینه شامل تهدید به مرگ، تلاش برای فیشینگ (دزدی اطلاعات)، کارزارهای

Authorities at Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan have amputated four fingers of Mohsen Ashiri, a 37-year-old man, despite both the victim’s consent and Ashiri’s written repentance—conditions that, under Iran’s own Islamic Penal Code, should have halted the punishment. The amputation

Hundreds of prisoners at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Iran have launched a mass hunger strike to protest the rising wave of executions. According to a statement released by the inmates, nearly 1,500 prisoners sentenced to death have joined the hunger strike. The protest began on

Nearly 60 days after the arbitrary arrest of five writers and cultural activists in Tehran, concern is mounting over their continued detention without access to their families or legal counsel. The five—Hassan Tozandeh-Jani, a poet and cultural activist; Ehsan Rostami, a

At dawn on October 2, Iranian authorities executed Mohammadreza Shehiki, 25, in Iranshahr Prison. He was arrested and convicted of murder at age 16, according to Haalvsh. Shehiki, a resident of Masjed Abolfazl village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, was arrested nine years

Iranian authorities executed seven political prisoners, including six Arab men and one Kurdish man, on Saturday, October 4, amid reports of severe intimidation of the victims’ families. The six Arab political prisoners — Ali Mojaddam, Mohammadreza Moghadam, Moein Khanfari, Habib

Branch 47 of the Isfahan Court of Appeals has upheld the convictions of ten Baha’i women sentenced to a combined 90 years in prison on charges linked to their community activities. These charges were based on activities such as organizing art, music, and yoga classes, as well as

After nearly a month on hunger strike, activist @HosseinRonaghi has been granted a one-week medical furlough. 👉 This is not enough! He must be fully and unconditionally released, as his most recent arbitrary detention comes after his social media posts standing against war and

Atash Shakarami, the aunt of slain teenage protester Nika Shakarami, has been sentenced to 38 lashes after the Lorestan Court of Appeals upheld her conviction on the charge of “spreading falsehoods.” Shakarami said the case stemmed from a private complaint, but provided no

Three years after Islamic Republic security forces shot dead over 100 protesters in Sistan & Baluchistan, the trial of the state perpetrators has concluded with verdicts that glaringly expose the crisis of impunity for state crimes and atrocities in Iran. https://t.co/HJc4qPVbJF

Five Christian converts in Iran have been handed prison terms totaling more than 40 years related to their faith, after their appeals were recently rejected. The converts were each sentenced in July to more than eight years, including charges of “propaganda contrary to Islamic

Somayeh Rashidi, an Iranian political prisoner, died at Mofatteh Hospital in Tehran on September 25, 2025, after prison authorities delayed her hospital transfer and repeatedly denied her proper medical care in prison, HRANA reported. CHRI calls for an independent and

The Islamic Republic is detaining a growing number of children under the guise of state security and holding them incommunicado, targeting minority populations in Kurdistan and Sistan and Baluchistan. Read the full press release:

Somayeh Rashidi, a 42-year-old political prisoner, has fallen into a coma following months of untreated epileptic seizures in Iranian prisons. She is currently hospitalized at Moftah Hospital in Varamin, with her Glasgow Coma Scale score at four, indicating minimal brain