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Aug 20 2019 12:36pm
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Reduced contact with family 'needlessly cruel'
Responding to reports that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has had her conta...
Aug 15 2019 12:59pm
Urgent Action update: Iranian-swedish academic forcibly disappeared
Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali has been subjected to enfor...
Aug 9 2019 12:35pm
Urgent Action update: Hunger-striking labour rights activist at risk
Labour rights activist Sepideh Gholian has been on hunger strike since...
Aug 8 2019 2:52pm
Urgent Action update: A decade in jail for defying forced veiling
Two Iranian women’s rights defenders, Yasaman Aryani and Monireh Arabs...
Aug 1 2019 1:23pm
Iran: Kurdish singer flogged for drinking alcohol and 'insulting Islam'
Peyman Mirzazadeh reportedly flogged 20 times for ‘drinking alcohol’ a...
Jul 25 2019 11:14am
Urgent Action: Jailed for protesting forced veiling laws
Iranian women’s rights defenders Monireh Arabshahi, Yasaman Aryani and...
Jul 15 2019 1:07pm
Iran: women activists forced to make filmed 'confessions' over veiling laws
At least six cases since April, including one where state broadcaster ...
Jul 12 2019 4:13pm
Urgent Action: Jailed for reporting on workers’ protests
Iranian journalists Amir Amirgholi, Sanaz Alahyari and Amirhossein Moh...
Jul 11 2019 6:09pm
Urgent Action: Four women jailed for attending may day rally
Iranian labour rights activists Anisha Assadolahi, Atefeh Rangriz and ...
Jul 5 2019 3:50pm
Urgent Action: Lawyer sentenced to over 29 years in prison
Human rights lawyer Amirsalar Davoudi has been sentenced to 29 years a...