Article 19 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Akbar Azad

Civil society activist and author Akbar Azad, originally from East Azerbaijan, was arrested at his home in Tehran on May 24, 2010. On February 21 2014, International Mother Language Day, ...

Alireza Beheshti Shirazi

Alireza Beheshti Shirazi was sentenced to five years in prison for his political affiliations with former Prime Minister Mousavi, and his journalism that supported him. He is currently at Evin ...

Kasra Nouri

Kasra Nouri is a blogger and Sufi activist and has been arrested several times, most recently on December 30, 2017. He served a sentence at Evin Prison, where he’s gone ...

Aliasghar Honarmand

Farokh Abdi

Farokh Abdi is a Kurdish media activist who was the manager of a Telegram channel, Amanj, which focused on covering Urmia news. He was arrested on 10 February 2018.

Rahil Mousavi

Photojournalist Rahil Mousavi, 22, was arrested and beaten by security agents after she took photographs of a protest rally in the southwestern port city of Khorramshahr.

Amar Kalantari

Mohammad Hossein Heydari

Farhad Jahanbeygi

Farhad Jahanbeygi, also known as Miran Bazani, was the editor-in-chief of Neday-e Jame’e (“Call of the Society”), a Kurdish-Persian weekly published in the capital of the western province of Kermanshah. ...

Abdolreza Davari

Abdolreza Davari worked as the press advisor to former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In August 2015, he was found guilty of insulting the Supreme Leader and was sentenced to six and ...