The most important and sensitive part of citizenship rights is political rights, which the Charter of Citizenship has remained silent about. If such silence is intentional, which is likely the case, it indicates deep disagreements about political rights such as freedom of expression, freedom of religion, free and fair elections, unlawful arrests and detention centers, […]...

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are two international non-governmental organizations that also operate in the field of Iran. In this issue of the monthly magazine “Peace Line”, we have a conversation with Dariush Dayyak, the responsible for the Iran desk at Amnesty International and Faraz Sanei, a researcher on Iran affairs in the Middle […]...

Jamal Hosseini is one of the founders of the human rights activists group in Iran, and currently serves as the coordinator of the organization, continuing his activities. Mr. Hosseini is one of the members who, despite attacks by security forces, does not have a desire to appear in the media; however, due to his special […]...

Isa Saharkhiz, a well-known journalist, was arrested in July 2009 following widespread arrests after the controversial 2009 presidential election. He received his release papers in October of this year while in the hospital, but was sentenced to 3 years in prison by Judge Salavati, the head of Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, […]...

Mahnaz Afkhami was the head of the Women’s Organization during the Pahlavi era and the Minister of Women’s Affairs in the last three years of that period. Mahnaz Afkhami, who has a high level of education from reputable universities outside of Iran, is a living example of the elite generation that emerged during the Pahlavi […]...

Hassan Rouhani, the victorious candidate in the eleventh presidential election, in his campaign slogans, while referring to his efforts in the Supreme National Security Council to lift the house arrest of Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, has repeatedly promised his supporters to do everything in his power to free political prisoners and those who have been […]...

In response to the protest movement that emerged after the 10th presidential election in Iran, the Iranian government took the initiative to peacefully confine the leaders of this movement. Now, more than a thousand days, or in other words, almost three years have passed since the confinement of Mr. Mir Hossein Mousavi, former Prime Minister […]...

Many artists and professionals in the field of art of the country, who were present in the election campaign of “Hassan Rouhani”, as well as those who witnessed the election events from outside, welcomed Rouhani’s cultural and artistic positions, who had nominated himself for the eleventh government of the Islamic Republic. But this welcome seemed […]...

Mir Hossein Mousavi, the former Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic, and Mehdi Karroubi, the former head of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, were the candidates for the 1388 presidential election. In that same year, the former President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was declared the winner of the election in a controversial situation. This announcement led to widespread […]...

The confinement of recognized leaders of the Green Movement, which formed after protesting the results of the presidential election, is considered one of the major challenges of the Islamic Republic government in the field of human rights, which after more than a thousand days, still remains unresolved; with the change of the new government in […]...

It is likely that if a German traveler takes a stroll on Enqelab Street in Tehran, which is home to the book market and also the center of book, CD, and DVD street vendors in the city, they will be amazed to see that the book “Mein Kampf” by Hitler, which is not allowed to […]...

One of the institutions that specializes in the subject of “human rights” in the Islamic Republic of Iran today is the “Human Rights Headquarters of the Judiciary”. According to the official website of this headquarters, its activities began in 1381 (2002) with the approval of the headquarters’ charter and its publication in the official gazette. […]...