The torture and inhuman mistreatment of detainees and prisoners in Iran are among the most serious violations of human rights in the country’s prisons. In many cases, prisoners or detainees... Read more
Amnesty International published a list of 72 individuals Wednesday whose deaths in custody since January 2010 it said Iran had not adequately explained despite reports that they resulted fro... Read more
At least one kolbar was killed and 13 wounded by Iranian forces in August, and at least 47 people were arrested, a human rights organization monitoring Kurdish areas of Iran said on Wednesda... Read more
According to a report by the Hengaw Human Rights Organization, four months after the arrest of Golaleh Moradi, a Kurdish citizen from Iran’s Piranshar, she is still being held in the women... Read more
Hacked videos from security cameras at Tehran’s Evin prison offered “shocking visual evidence of beatings, sexual harassment, and deliberate neglect and ill-treatment of those in... Read more
A top Iranian prisons official has confirmed the veracity of footage leaked by hackers that shows the harsh conditions inmates of Tehran’s Evin Prison suffer. The surveillance camera footage... Read more
The guard in a control room at Iran’s notorious Evin prison springs to attention as one by one, monitors in front of him suddenly blink off and display something very different from th... Read more
The appointment of Ebrahim Raisi, Mohseni Ejeii and Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, major human rights violators, at the key positions of the power in Iran reflects the regime’s “new aggressive and... Read more
Amnesty International issued a statement calling for immediate action to halt Heidar Ghorbani’s death sentence, saying the Kurd political prisoner had been forced to confess under seve... Read more
The Erbil Security Directorate in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region has issued a statement saying that the prime suspect in the murder case of Musa Babakhani, a member of the Central Committee of t... Read more
