Evin Prison

November 5, 2024 | |

A ‘Shameful Phenomenon’: Iran Arrests Female Protester After She Disrobes at University

Iranian Student Protests Mandatory Dress Code: Ahoo Daryaeistripped to her underwear at Tehran’sIslamic Azad University on November 2 after members of the Basij militia, which...

October 31, 2024 | |

Germany Shuts Down Iranian Consulates, Urges Sanctions Following Citizen’s Execution

Germany will close all three of its Iranian consulates in response to the Islamic Republic’s execution of a German-Iranian dual citizen and prominent dissident earlier this week,...

September 16, 2024 | |

Iranians Commemorate Mahsa Amini on Second Anniversary of Her Murder

The second anniversary of the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was marked in Iran and around the world on September 16 amid a media blackout ordered by Iran’s rulers. The young...

September 11, 2024 | |

26 Human Rights Groups Denounce Iran’s Death Sentence Against Prominent Activist

Iran must rescind its death sentence against Kurdish women’s rights activist and social worker Pakhshan Azizi, a group of 26 human rights organizations said in a joint statement...

April 28, 2023 | |

Belgium Weighs Iran’s Hostage Swap Request, Convicted Diplomat for Aid Worker

Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said on April 27 that his government is examining a request by Tehran to release convicted terrorist mastermind and jailed Iranian diplomat...

March 18, 2022 | Tzvi Kahn |

Canada Must Bar Iranian Officials From Entering the Country

It was, at first glance, an unremarkable sight. A man in his 60s, sporting a green T-shirt and blue shorts, walks on a treadmill in a Toronto-area fitness center. Younger men and women exercise on adjacent...

January 12, 2022 | Benjamin Weinthal |

After Fox News report, Iran’s America-hating wrestling boss might be banned from US

Iran's Alireza Dabir urged “Death to America” in a television interview

January 6, 2022 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran wrestling chief, US green card holder, calls for a violent ‘Death to America’

Dabir's statement comes a year after a former Iranian wrestling champion was executed for protesting corruption in the country

July 16, 2021 | Thomas Joscelyn |

How Iranian Intelligence Hunts Down Dissidents While Protecting Al-Qaeda

Court documents show that the regime has long been trying to kidnap an Iranian journalist living in Brooklyn.

June 17, 2021 | Tzvi Kahn |

Iran’s Leading Presidential Candidate Has Committed Crimes Against Humanity

Even the prison guards were horrified. In the summer of 1988, at the behest of Iran’s then-supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the regime executed thousands of political dissidents incarcerated...

April 12, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Inside Iran’s torture prisons: Tehran quick to jail those with pro-Israel ties

Thanks to a rare glimpse inside the Islamic Republic of Iran’s vast penal establishment in Tehran, Fox News has obtained exclusive information about Iranians condemned to harsh sentences for mere contact...

September 24, 2020 | Tzvi Kahn |

Trapped in a Pandemic: Iran’s Political Prisoners Face COVID-19 Behind Bars

“Our bodies are ruined,” Narges Mohammadi, the imprisoned Iranian journalist and human rights advocate, wrote in July. “There are twelve of us in the ward who have come down with the coronavirus,”...

November 5, 2019 | Tzvi Kahn |

U.S. Imposes New Sanctions on Officials Tied to Iran’s Supreme Leader

The United States on Monday sanctioned Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff (AFGS) and nine individuals responsible for implementing the extremist policies – both at home and abroad – of Iran’s supreme...

December 11, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn |

U.S. Urges Iran to Release Women’s Rights Activist on Hunger Strike

The State Department on Friday called on Iran to release women’s rights activist Farhad Meysami immediately, noting that his “lif...

September 15, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn |

The U.S. Should Sanction Iran’s Key Slush Fund and Its Brutal Custodian

At first, he couldn’t identify the sound. But Amir Atiabi, an inmate in Iran’s Gohardasht Prison, was curious. Over the course of several nights in 1988, he ...

September 12, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn |

New Reports of Abuse Reinforce Case for Sanctions on Iran’s Prisons

An exiled Iranian Dervish activist accused Tehran last week of violating...

September 4, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn

U.S. Should Sanction Judge of Iran’s Brutal Kangaroo Court

The torture still occupies her nightmares. In 1984, high school student Mahnaz Ghezellou found herself blindfolded and handcuffed in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison for her peaceful a...

June 20, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn |

Meet the Iranian Police Who Enforce Iran’s Islamist Ideology

In the wake of more than 20 deaths that punctuated the early days of Iran’s nationwide protests, the country’s police chief boldly identified the principal provocateurs. Iranians,&nbs...

May 31, 2018 | Tzvi Kahn |

Trump Imposes New Human Rights Sanctions on Iran

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed sanctions on...

January 24, 2018 | Sheryl Saperia

Put Iran in Canada’s Crosshairs

In November, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland announced the first round of sanctions under the recently passed Justice for Victims of Corrupt Foreign Officials Act, targeting 52 human r...