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People in solitary confinement have reported that over time, colours fade until all you see is grey.

'In those six months, the Iranian authorities have never been willing to discuss why they have detained my family.' Richard Ratcliffe blogs on the imprisonment of his wife, Nazanin, and the enforced separation from their two-year-old daughter.

Another promised release date has just passed for the UK-Iranian grandfather. Send him a message of support for his birthday.

British-Iranian charity worker continues to be imprisoned in Iran without charge, forcibly separated from her young daughter who has had her UK passport confiscated. Call for justice.

'He has often been told he has a good chance of release 'next week' or 'next month' and yet that day never comes. I’m sure this constant oscillation between hope and despair is damaging his health. It’s certainly painful for the rest of his family.' The…

Saman Naseem awaits execution any day. Just 17 when he was arrested in Iran for being a member of an opposition group, he was sentenced to death after an unfair trial and torture in detention. Ask the Iranian authorities not to execute Saman, and instead…

After years of campaigning by Amnesty activists, journalist and poet Shi Tao has been released 15 months early. At his arrest in 2004 he was charged with 'leaking state secrets' after he revealed Propaganda Department instructions on how to handle the…