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The Supreme Court upheld the 15-years prison sentence for Abbas Lesani, an Iranian Turk (Azari) civil activist, by rejecting his appeal, According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, the sentence...

Shahram Safari, a journalist and media activist from Kermanshah, was sentenced to 91 days in prison for publishing statistics on the occurrence of coronavirus. This verdict was issued by Branch 101 of the 2nd...

Shapoor Ehsani Rad, a labor activist, was arrested this morning in the city of Saveh by security forces. According to the Campaign for Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, security forces arrested Shapoor Ehsani Rad,...

Reports reaching the campaign indicate that the execution of five prisoners was carried out in the Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj on the morning of Wednesday, June 10TH, 2020. According to the Campaign for the...

Massoud Hokmabadi, a theater producer and artist living in Mashhad, was sentenced to prison by Iranian judicial authorities for preventing him from attending the Fajr Festival. According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political...

A number of Instagram activists living in Mashhad were summoned and detained by security forces. According to the Campaign for Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, a number of cyberspace activists living in Mashhad who...

 Haidar Ghorbani, a construction worker and a member of the Free Trade Union of Iran, was arrested and taken to an unknown location. According to the Campaign for Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, Haidar...

Security forces arrested lawyer Ali Mojtahedzadeh this morning. According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, security forces raided the house of Ali Mojtahedzadeh, this morning, June 6th, 2020. This lawyer has...

Ali Jalalian, the father of political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian, announced that his daughter had contracted the coronavirus at Qarchak Prison in Varamin. According to the Campaign for Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners quoting the...

Hedayat Abdullahpour, a Kurdish political prisoner, was secretly executed a month ago. According to the Campaign for Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, on Wednesday June 10th, 2020, following the summoning of the family of...

 The sentence of 74 lashes was carried out for "Rasoul Talib Moghadam", a member of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, Then, he was transferred to Evin Prison quarantine to...

Kajvan Azadian, an environmental activist and student of Payame Noor University in Marivan was arrested and taken to the city's prison. According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, today, Wednesday,...

Zahra Jamali, a civil activist and one of the signatories of the second letter of 14 people (women inside Iran), returned to Evin Prison after her end of temporarily release. According to the Campaign for...

The five-year sentence for Sediq Safi, a Kurdish citizen from Dyvandereh, Kurdistan, was upheld by the provincial appeals court. According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, on Thursday, May 21st,...

Sohaila Hijab, a civil activist and residence of Kermanshah, who had previously was sentenced to 18 years in prison by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court, was summoned by intelligence agents on Saturday, May...

A number of Sunni Arab citizens, residing in south of Ahwaz, were arrested by security forces on the eve of Eid al-Fitr. According to the Campaign for Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners and according...

"Mohammad Ali Zahmatkesh", a retired teacher and teachers' union activist in Fars province, is still in quarantine at the Adel Abad prison in Shiraz, despite promises from officials. According to the Campaign for the Defense...

Turkish (Azerbaijani) activist Mohammad Mahmoudi was sentenced to prison terms in Branch 1 of the Tabriz Revolutionary Court on Wednesday, May 13th, 2020. According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners,...

Jila Karamzadeh Makoundi, a former political prisoner, was sentenced by Branch 29 of the Revolutionary Court to six years in prison. According to the Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners, "Jila Karamzadeh...

Seven Baha'i citizens living in Shiraz, according to a ruling by the city's first branch of the Revolutionary Court, have been sentenced to a total of 39 years in prison on charges of "propaganda...