U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the United States has received tips that ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson, reported missing in Iran nearly four years ago, is alive in captivity in southwest Asia. Clinton said in a statement that the U.S. has “received recent indications that Bob is being held somewhere in southwest [...]

The Committee for the Defense of Political Prisoners – 59 political prisoners in Rajai Shahr ‘Gohardasht’ prison released a statement announcing that they have launched an indefinite hunger strike since Tuesday morning. The hunger strike is in protest to the suppression of the Iranian people’s righteous resistance and against the limitations imposed inside the prison. According [...]

Iranian judiciary and prison authorities have expressed concern over the surge in the number of prisoners and called on Iranian prosecutors to reduce the number of arrests. Iran’s Prosecutor Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei told a gathering of prosecutors yesterday: “I ask that while firmly dealing with dangerous criminals, prosecutors pay attention that those who need not [...]

In an interview with euronews, the Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, makes a link between protests in Iran and manipulation from the outside world.  Salehi reacts to foreign to concerns over Iranian ships off the coast of Syria and Iran’s nuclear program. The government’s hard stance against the opposition is clear at a time of revolution in some  Arabic countries. [...]

A number of prominent Iranian activists have written an open letter to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging him to intervene in the case of detained opposition leaders Mir Hossein Musavi and Mehdi Karrubi, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. The letter, published on March 1 on opposition websites, calls on Ban to use all “international levers” [...]

The Iranian Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi says Iranians fighting for equal gender rights will take to the streets on March 8, International Women’s Day. Ebadi released a statement saying that a “democratic government” in Iran requires a review of the constitution, and such a legal review would be the first step toward “a civil [...]

“Mubarak, Ben Ali and now Ayatollah Khamenei” – the slogan of protesters in the Iranian city of Shiraz. More amateur video footage of anti-government demonstrations has been posted on the internet. The protest is one of several held over the past few weeks, including in Tehran. The regime has clamped down hard, with opposition activists arrested [...]

Farah Vazehan who had returned to Iran in order to visit her child, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison and exile to the Rajaei Shahr Prison. Vazehan was arrested after the Ashura events of last year and transferred to Ward 209 and the solitary confinement units of Evin prison. According to the Human [...]

Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi announced there were no “special arrests” yesterday, despite numerous reports on opposition websites about the widespread arrest of protester. On Tuesday, opposition groups rallied their supporters to demand an end to the incarceration of opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi along with their wives. Jafari Dowlatabadi told reporters: “There [...]

IRANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST SENTENCED Navid Khanjani, a member of two Iranian human rights organizations, was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment on 31 January 2011. He has appealed, but an appeal hearing date has not yet been set. If imprisoned, he would be a prisoner of conscience, held solely in connection with his peaceful human [...]