Maryam Shafipour, 29, was released from a women's wing of Evin Prison in Tehran on Thursday July 16, 2015. She was arrested in July after...

In Brief Mohammad Hossein Rafiee, a retired Tehran University professor and member of the Meli-Mazhabi (National-Religious) Alliance and...

In Brief Status: Released In October 2019, Iranian authorities have released Hamid Babaei, 36, a PhD student at the University of Liege...

In Brief In August 2008 Mostafa Alavi was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by an Iranian court for “plotting against the regime.” He...

In Brief Yashar Darolshafa, a graduate student of Sociology at Tehran University and the former secretary of the Islamic Reformist...

In Brief In June 2013 sociologist and political activist Saeed Madani was sentenced to six years in prison and ten years in exile on...

It has been over 30 months since Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish citizen and a scholar of disaster medicine was arrested in Iran....

In the latest wave of oppression against Baha’i students in Iran, Anahita Horr, an undergraduate at the School of Architecture at Rasam...

On September 12, 2018 Endangered Scholars Worldwide transmitted a letter of appeal to the Iranian Government and the US Department of...

On September 5, 2018 Endangered Scholars Worldwide learned that a University of Tehran photography student was sentenced to seven years...

According to a report published by BBC Persian on July 22, 2018, some 120 academics from universities across Iran issued an open letter...

Supporters of Xiyue Wang, the Princeton University graduate student who has been imprisoned in Iran for almost two years, will hold a...

Abbas Edalat, a British-Iranian professor at the Imperial College of London, has been arrested by security forces in Tehran, according to...

The rector of the University of Copenhagen has signed a letter expressing concern over the death sentence issued against Ahmadreza...

Kavous Seyed Emami, a 63-year-old Iranian-Canadian environmental activist, died in prison in Tehran. Authorities claim Emami committed...

Iran’s Supreme Court has rejected a request to review the death sentence given to Ahmadreza Djalali, a university professor accused of...

According to BBC Persian, the number of students detained has risen to 90 as protests continue in Iran. At least fourteen were arrested...

On December 20, 2017, four UN human rights experts called on Iran to “immediately” annul the death sentence against Ahmadreza Djalali, an...

Iranian state TV has aired what it calls a confession by Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-Swedish academic who has been sentenced to death...

We, the undersigned, are compelled to express our outrage at the arrest, conviction, and sentencing of Iranian professor Ahmadreza...