Women's rights activist #FaezehHashemi, daughter of former #Iran President Hashemi Rafsanjani, given 5-year sentence for “propaganda” and “acts against national security”
Hashemi arrested in September for "inciting riots" as #IranProtests2022 spread
Women's rights activist #FaezehHashemi, daughter of former #Iran President Hashemi Rafsanjani, given 5-year sentence for “propaganda” and “acts against national security”
Hashemi arrested in September for "inciting riots" as #IranProtests2022 spread
#Iran authorities continue crackdown on journalists, having arrested 70+ since start of #IranProtests2022
Saeid Seyf-Ali, editor-in-chief of Dideban Iran news site, summoned & seized
Photojournalist Yalda Moayeri sentenced to 6 years in prison & community work as street sweeper
#Iran Supreme Court revokes death sentences imposed on three detainees, but confirms the capital punishment of #MohammadMahdiKarami and #SeyedMohammadHosseini
Chess grandmaster Sara Khadem will not return to #Iran after competing without a hijab in an international tournament in Kazakhstan last week
"Source close to her" says she received warnings not to return --- Family also threatened
Khadem now in Spain
Mother of #NimaShafaghsoost speaks of his death after he was shot in leg by #Iran security forces last month.
Local coroner and security forces said Shafaghdoost died of a wound from a dog bite wound and threatened the family not to speak out
Iranian student at Italy's University of Bologna reportedly dies after he was beaten in #Iran prison amid #IranProtests2022
Mehdi Zare Ashkzari, who was studying pharmacy, released after the beatings when he felt ill, but fell into coma and died 20 days later
18-year-old protester given 2 death sentences for "corruption on Earth" and "waging war against God"
#MehdiMohammadifard arrested on Sept. 30 during demonstrations in Nowshahr in northern #Iran
Accused of helping to organize and lead a rally on Sept. 21
Family of journalist #KeyvanSamimi deny reports in reformist media that he was released from prison this weekend
Samimi, 73, was sentenced in Dec. 2020 to 3 years
Mehdi Ghadimi is latest journalist arrested by #Iran authorities
Officials in Iran, world's leading imprisoner of journalists, have arrested 70+ media personnel during #IranProtests2022
Journalist Keyvan Samimi, 73, released after his latest imprisonment
Samimi was sentenced in December 2020 to three years in prison
Wrote open letter in Dec. supporting #IranProtests2022
#Iran authorities arrest journalist #MiladAlavi for his reporting on victims of #IranProtests2022
Officials have arrested 60+ journalists since the start of nationwide protests on September 16
#IranProtests2022: Security Forces Kill and Wound Demonstrators in #Kurdish
#ir Northwest
Australian chapter of PEN International condemns detention of award-winning Baha’i writer & poet Mahvash Sabet in Tehran’s Evin Prison
Sabet in solitary confinement after she and fellow Baha'i member Fariba Kamalabadi given 10-year prison sentences on Dec. 10
After sinking to historic low, #Iran currency surges more than 10% on Sat.
Nature of Central Bank intervention unknown but it follows Thursday's resignation of Bank governor Ali Salehabadi
#Iran Supreme Court quashes death penalty imposed on a protester accused of damaging public property
Court sends case of Noor Mohammadzadeh back for review --- Supposed crime was trying to break a highway guardrail and setting fire to a bin
Lawyer Saeed Sheikh given a 3-year prison sentence on charges of "gathering and colluding against the country's security" and "propaganda against the Islamic Republic of Iran"
At least 44 lawyers arrested during 15-week #IranProtests2022 for rights, justice, & gender equality