Skip to main content
Amnesty International UK
Log in
Iran (817)
Nov 2 2014 9:47am
Iran's jailing of Ghoncheh Ghavami for volleyball protest is 'appalling'
‘It’s an outrage that a young woman is being locked up simply for peac...
Oct 14 2014 10:55pm
Iran: Juvenile Offender Facing Execution
In Iran a young man is facing execution, even though he was a child at...
Sep 19 2014 1:06pm
Sentencing of 'Happy' video makers in Iran is condemned
'With these sentences, the absurd meets the unjust' - Hassiba Hadj ...
Sep 11 2014 5:54pm
Iran: British woman detained for taking part in volleyball protest should be released
Interrogators have warned that Ghoncheh Ghavami ‘would not walk out...
Aug 4 2014 12:31pm
A death penalty for journalism in Iran
Iran’s hardline judiciary is getting very good at silencing its critic...
Aug 1 2014 11:46am
Iran: sharp rise in arrests of journalists - new briefing
New climate of fear where voicing any criticism has become ‘a direc...
Jun 19 2014 5:04pm
Iran: Save Zeynab's sight
Zeynab Jalalian is in her early thirties and is set to spend the rest ...
Jun 2 2014 12:00am
Iran: repression of students and academics has 'squeezed life out' of universities - new report
Crackdown has seen ‘Islamicisation’ of university curriculums to ba...
May 21 2014 12:01pm
Iran must halt tomorrow's execution of two men forced to confess to gas pipeline explosion on TV
‘The Iranian authorities are violating every rule in the book’ - Ha...
Mar 27 2014 12:00am
'Sharp spike' in global executions last year - new report
‘Killing sprees’ in Iran and Iraq fuelled 15% rise in executions durin...