Follwing the detention of many journalists and civil society activists which has continued after the June presidential elections in Iran, Jelveh Javaheri women's rights activist and her husband Kaveh Mozafari spent months in prison and...

Iran: DI Speaks Out Against Death Penalty Defend International has urged the Iranian authorities to take serious steps to impose an immediate moratorium on executions and provide a timetable for abolishing the capital punishment. "As...

Please read the letter. think and take action to stop child killings in Iran. http://rowzane.com/0000-2009/e-m10/Borochur.pdf

Rouhi Shafii Two women in different parts of Iran and two juveniles are in danger of imminent execution. Today, I will report the case of one of the women, Soheila Ghadiri who is due for execution on Wednesday 21 on Orumieh in north...

Saturday, October 17, 2009 Rouhi Shafii The Iranian government has accelerated its reign of executions despite international condmentations. Two categories of prisoners are at the immidiate risk of execution: a number of people who...

Three days It took me three hard days to have the heart to sit and write about the killing of a child. I don't know how those who went to protest and prevent this barbaric act would cope with the trauma of watching him plead with the...

Three juveniles are in the imminent threat of being executed in Iran. All three have been sentenced to death by hanging. Behnoud Shojai, Safar Anguti and Mohemmad Reza Hadadi were under 18 when they got involved in the crimes...

Shabnam Madadzadeh, a university student and political activist was detained in February 2009 along with her brother. She was kept in solitary for 70 days and then transferred to ward 209. Although the bail money has been paid for her...

Here are some news from inside the Iranina prisons. The strangest case. A young man who was detained on 13 July 1999 at his home in Tehran and never heard of him again! Said Zinali was taken away by some people who claimed are the...

The following video is the work of a group of Iranians in New York. Please watch to the end. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv4ZLd4kZcI This week the unelected president of Iran is attending the UN General Assembly and will speak on...

Another case of rape in prison. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhKs4lZBkyE Reza Alamehzadeh is an Iranian film maker and human rights campaigner who lives in Holland. Recently, he has started to document the cases of rape and torture...

Morteza Alviri was detained a few days ago. You can watch his last interview on the following link. http://www.payvand.com/news/09/sep/1106.html

Morteza Alviri was detained a few days ago. You can watch his last interview on the following link. http://www.payvand.com/news/09/sep/1106.html

Wonderful site designed by some Iranians in commomeration of those killed in recent unrests. http://neverforget.us/

Another case of abduction in day light! Last week, the mother of Atefeh Emam, an 18 year old student, whose father has been taken to prison during the recent unrests, made a heartbreaking public appeal to find her kidnapped daughter...

On Sept 5, Stockholm was the host to the two kilometre Green Scroll which was signed by thousands of Iranians stating that " Ahmadinejad is not Iran's president." The scroll was made of tens of pieces of green and white materials which...

A horror film in words! Rouhi Shafii Some news are easy to believe and some need more time for the reader to digest. The number of the disappeared in the post-election Iran is not known. Many families are still searching for the loved...

For years, Iranian inside and outside the country have been trying to collect enough evidence to present to the International Court of Human rights so that the Court considers the crimes committed by the Iranian regime as crimes...

I'm not afraid to be accused of conspiracy in this time of chaos and lawlessness. I'm not afraid to be accused of misguiding the public. You cannot deny that I am a mother. Not only mother to Tandis & Baran but to all the youth, who...

Since the day Mehdi Karubi, the defeated presidential candidate wrote a letter to Hashemi Rafsanji, informing him of recent the cases of rapes in prisons of men & women, the Iranian regime has gone on the counter-attacl claiming that...