Dozens Beaten; Personal Belongings Smashed Reports from Iran indicate that on Thursday around 100 security agents and riot police, acco...

Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president and an elder statesman of Iranian politics, today called on country...

Taken to Evin Prison Iranian authorities took Faezeh Hashemi, a former member of Majlis and daughter of Ayatollah Akbar ...

Reporters Without Borders today issued an alarm on the health of Emadoldin Baghi, the Iranian journalist and human rights activist. Baghi su...

Amnesty International today expressed alarm at the new wave of executions in Iran. Since the beginning of 2007, Iran has executed 250 people...

Farshad Ghorbanpour, a journalist working for Roozonline and other reformist publications, was freed today after posting a bail. Ghorbanpou...

Shargh , one of Iran’s leading reformist papers, was closed down today. The government announced that the reason for the ban was “the public...

The government arrested another journalist on Tuesday, Farshad Ghorbanpour. He was transferred to the notorious Security Section 209 at Evin...

The government clampdown on dissent and its decision to ration gasoline dominated the coverage in the Iranian media. In the past few weeks t...