Lindsay and Craig Foreman were arrested in January 2025 and have allegedly been held in "dire" conditions.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a partnership of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)

There’s a scene toward the end of the BBC docudrama Prisoner 951 when Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British Iranian mother held hostage in Iran for six years, pushes back against the cruel mind games of her captors.

Nobel peace laureate Narges Mohammadi has been beaten nearly to death while imprisoned in Iran, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said Wednesday. The committee said it had received “credible reports” of “life-threatening mistreatment” of Mohammadi,

Thousands of Iranian protesters were arrested in the months after the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, following her arrest for improperly wearing her hijab. Many spent time at the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, where a fire broke out one night. A new short ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran sentenced Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to over seven more years in prison after she began a hunger strike, supporters said Sunday, as Tehran cracks down on all dissent following nationwide protests and ...

Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has said he plans to return to Iran despite being sentenced to a year in prison and a travel ban earlier this week, a report said Thursday. The 65-year-old is currently touring to promote his latest Oscar-nominated ...

Mehdi Mahmoudian, the Oscar-nominated co-writer of Jafar Panahi’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident, has been released from Nowshahr Prison in northeastern Iran, according to reports. He had spent 17 days in incarceration for his role in signing an open letter condemning the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran over the