By ERVAND ABRAHAMIANFEB. 22, 2018  New York Times  “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons,” Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote in “The House of the…

Leila Alikarami February 15, 2018 A new form of protest in Iran against mandatory veiling has received much attention in the press and social media in recent weeks. The bold…

Saeed Kamali Dehghan Iran correspondent Wed 14 Feb 2018 A group of prominent Iranian intellectuals have said they have lost hope that the Islamic Republic can reform, and have called…

Fifteen Iranian public intellectuals dismayed by four decades of the Islamic Republic rule, in a statement released on Sunday to coincide with the 39th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution of…

LONDON, United Kingdom (Kurdistan 24) – After heavy government crackdown, the seemingly spontaneous nation-wide protests in Iran have been silenced, but a Nobel Peace Prize winner says the rage is…

Ottawa – January 11, 2018 Nobel Peace Laureates Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman, urge the Islamic Republic of Iran to conduct credible independent investigations into the…

American Physical Society Prizes Spring 2018 American Physical Society Prizes and Awards Announced Narges Mohammadi Citation: “for her leadership in campaigning for peace, justice, and the abolition of the death penalty…

In most countries around the world, especially where many mothers are among political and conscience prisoners, human rights (rights for protection, special rights as a mother, etc.) have never been…

A mother in prison, whether she is there because she was defending a cause or because she is a victim of society, is forced to spend time away from her…

Friday 7 July 2017 – 16 Tir 1396 In the wake of the publication of the news about the visit to Evin Prison by 50 ambassadors of different countries, the…