Farda-e-Eghtesad, an Iranian media outlet, has resumed its activities after a 15-month suspension. The outlet’s studio was sealed by Tehran’s Economic Security Police on June...
The jury of Iran's political and press courts found Mostafa Kavakebian, a political activist and the editor-in-chief of the Mardomsalari newspaper, guilty. The case was...
Following the reimposition of United Nations sanctions on Iran, the Tehran Prosecutor's Office announced that it has initiated legal proceedings against media outlets that “disrupted...
CourtThe jury of Iran's political and press courts found the editor-in-chief of "Hamshahri Online" guilty in a case involving the publication of statements by a...
The Persian-language television network Iran International announced in a statement that, following the outbreak of the Iran-Israel war (late June 2025), “45 of its journalists...
Despite the ceasefire agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel, the crisis affecting Iranian media, which intensified during the 12-day war, persists, with...
The news and analysis website Entekhab, which was blocked on the eleventh day of the military conflict between Iran and Israel, has been unblocked. Meanwhile,...
Amid ongoing threats against Iranian journalists living abroad, security agents in the Islamic Republic have threatened to "take hostage" the families of BBC Persian journalists.
On...
Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly has passed a bill titled “Intensifying Penalties for Espionage and Collaborators with Hostile Countries,” criminalizing various methods of maintaining the free...
In recent days, amid the military conflict between Iran and Israel, the families of several journalists and employees of Voice of America’s (VOA) Persian service...
Shirin Saeedi, an Iranian journalist incarcerated in Evin Prison, was released after serving over 21 months in detention. Her release was granted under a general...
Mustafa Nemati, an Iranian journalist, was released from prison after serving a total of 211 days. He was arrested on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, and...
The Second Criminal Court of Kerman County has sentenced Mansour Iranpour, a journalist from Jiroft, to 10 months in prison. The case was initiated against...
With the conversion of Azhdar Piri's sentence to an open verdict, the researcher and editor-in-chief of the Pazhohesh Mellal monthly magazine was released from Karaj...
Jina Modares Gorji, a women’s rights activist and journalist imprisoned in Sanandaj, Iran, was released from prison after completing her sentence.
On Monday, 22 September 2025,...
The remaining sentence of Nasim Soltanbeigi, an Iranian journalist, was included under the "General Pardon and Sentence Reduction Directive of 2025" following confirmation by the...
Agents from the Kerman Province Intelligence Department arrested Hassan Abbasi, a journalist and the editor-in-chief of the banned Ashkan News website.
According to a report received...
As of Tuesday, August 12, 2025, at least Five journalists are imprisoned in Iran: Zhina Modares Gorji in Sanandaj Prison, Azhdar Piri in Karaj Central...
Abolfazl Laal-Bahador, a journalist from Sabzevar and the administrator of the Telegram channel “Hezardastan,” has been sentenced to flogging, imprisonment, and exile. The case was...
In a recurring pattern that has sharply escalated in recent months, the SIM card of Saeideh Shafiei, a Tehran-based journalist, was blocked by the Islamic...
Shirin Saeedi, an Iranian journalist incarcerated in Evin Prison, was released after serving over 21 months in detention. Her release was granted under a general...
Mustafa Nemati, an Iranian journalist, was released from prison after serving a total of 211 days. He was arrested on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, and...
Farda-e-Eghtesad, an Iranian media outlet, has resumed its activities after a 15-month suspension. The outlet’s studio was sealed by Tehran’s Economic Security Police on June...
The Second Criminal Court of Kerman County has sentenced Mansour Iranpour, a journalist from Jiroft, to 10 months in prison. The case was initiated against...
The jury of Iran's political and press courts found Mostafa Kavakebian, a political activist and the editor-in-chief of the Mardomsalari newspaper, guilty. The case was...
With the conversion of Azhdar Piri's sentence to an open verdict, the researcher and editor-in-chief of the Pazhohesh Mellal monthly magazine was released from Karaj...
Following the reimposition of United Nations sanctions on Iran, the Tehran Prosecutor's Office announced that it has initiated legal proceedings against media outlets that “disrupted...
Jina Modares Gorji, a women’s rights activist and journalist imprisoned in Sanandaj, Iran, was released from prison after completing her sentence.
On Monday, 22 September 2025,...
The remaining sentence of Nasim Soltanbeigi, an Iranian journalist, was included under the "General Pardon and Sentence Reduction Directive of 2025" following confirmation by the...
CourtThe jury of Iran's political and press courts found the editor-in-chief of "Hamshahri Online" guilty in a case involving the publication of statements by a...
Agents from the Kerman Province Intelligence Department arrested Hassan Abbasi, a journalist and the editor-in-chief of the banned Ashkan News website.
According to a report received...
As of Tuesday, August 12, 2025, at least Five journalists are imprisoned in Iran: Zhina Modares Gorji in Sanandaj Prison, Azhdar Piri in Karaj Central...
Abolfazl Laal-Bahador, a journalist from Sabzevar and the administrator of the Telegram channel “Hezardastan,” has been sentenced to flogging, imprisonment, and exile. The case was...
The Persian-language television network Iran International announced in a statement that, following the outbreak of the Iran-Israel war (late June 2025), “45 of its journalists...
In a recurring pattern that has sharply escalated in recent months, the SIM card of Saeideh Shafiei, a Tehran-based journalist, was blocked by the Islamic...
The Tehran prosecutor has filed charges against Hadi Heidari, an Iranian cartoonist, over a caricature depicting President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Mizan News Agency, the media arm of...
Security forces in Bashagard, Hormozgan Province, illegally entered the home of Zeynab Nouraldini, a journalist and civil activist, and confiscated her personal belongings.
In a video...
Despite the ceasefire agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel, the crisis affecting Iranian media, which intensified during the 12-day war, persists, with...
The Isfahan Province Court of Appeals sentenced Hossein Yazdi, the managing director of the "Mobin24" news outlet, to one year in prison along with additional...
The news and analysis website Entekhab, which was blocked on the eleventh day of the military conflict between Iran and Israel, has been unblocked. Meanwhile,...
Amid ongoing threats against Iranian journalists living abroad, security agents in the Islamic Republic have threatened to "take hostage" the families of BBC Persian journalists.
On...
In the military conflict between Iran and Israel, known as the "12-Day War," alongside commanders and forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, hundreds of...
Iran’s Islamic Consultative Assembly has passed a bill titled “Intensifying Penalties for Espionage and Collaborators with Hostile Countries,” criminalizing various methods of maintaining the free...
In recent days, amid the military conflict between Iran and Israel, the families of several journalists and employees of Voice of America’s (VOA) Persian service...
On the eleventh day of the Iran-Israel war, the Entekhab news website in Iran was seized and taken offline on charges of “disrupting public psychological...
Amid intense Israeli airstrikes on Tehran, Iran’s capital, on June 16, 2025, the iconic glass building of Iran’s state-run IRIB television, a symbol of the...
On the ninth day of the war between Iran and Israel, Iran International television announced in a statement that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)...
In response to Israel's widespread attack on Iran's nuclear, military, and strategic command facilities, the Iranian government has restricted citizens' access to the internet. Simultaneously,...
Nasrin Hassani, a journalist and the editor-in-chief of the banned weekly Seyahat-e Sharq, was released from Bojnurd Prison after serving approximately 17 months.
According to a...
BBC has issued a statement expressing "serious concern over the harassment and intimidation of BBC Persian journalists and their families," calling on Iranian authorities to...
Today, Monday, May 26, 2025, at least six journalists are imprisoned in Iran; Nasrin Hasani in Bojnord prison, Jina Modares Gorji in Sanandaj prison, Ejedar...
Following a complaint from the IRGC Intelligence Organization, the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic of iran has initiated a case with serious charges against Parviz...
Today, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, at least five journalists are imprisoned in Iranian jails: Nasrin Hasani in Bojnord prison, Jina Modares Gorji in Sanandaj prison,...
Security police in Iran have summoned several journalists and active users on the social media platform X due to their critical posts about Mohammad Reza...
Simultaneously with the continuation of a new round of negotiations between Iran and the USA, the Tehran Prosecutor's Office has filed charges against two media...
The United Nations Human Rights Council has approved the mission of "Maya Sato," the Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, and the...
The First Branch of the Revolutionary Court in Abadan, Iran, sentenced Mandana Sadeghi, Farzaneh Yahyabadi, Arash Ghalehgholab, Kourosh Karmpour, and Reza Mohammadi, journalists and writers...
Mohammad Alimoradi, a journalist and documentary filmmaker residing in Tabriz, reported being threatened with death by individuals who appear to be agents of the Iranian...
A legal case has been initiated against the organizers of the journalism awards ceremony of the Tehran Association of Journalists (Cheragh) and female journalists who...
A court hearing regarding the charges against two journalists, Mandana Sadeghi and Arash Qaleh Gholab, as well as a writer named Reza Mohammadi, was held...
Iranian authorities have shut down the Ashkan News website after five years of operation. Simultaneously, the Telegram channel of Mansour Iranpour, a social journalist, was...
Saideh Shafiei and Rouhollah Nakhaei, journalists imprisoned in Evin Prison in Tehran, have been freed.
Saideh Shafiei was sentenced to three years and seven months and...
The cases against Niloufar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, who were detained during the "Women, Life, Freedom" protests in 2022, have been closed.
On February 11, 2025,...
The Scientific Assistance of the Presidency of Iran prevented journalist Susan Nuri from attending a press conference in this institution due to dress code and...
At least four journalists have been summoned by judicial and security authorities, and some of their personal belongings were confiscated by security officials.
On Tuesday, January...
The Tehran Provincial Court of Appeals confirmed the sentence issued by the lower court against Reza Valizadeh, sentencing this Iranian-American journalist to 10 years in...
Today, Wednesday, January 29, 2025, at least 8 journalists are imprisoned in Iran; Nasrin Hasani in Bojnurd, Zhina Madras Gorji in Sanandaj, Shirin Saeedi, Vida Rabani,...
Mehrdad Aladin, a documentary filmmaker and journalist from the "Didban Iran" news agency, was arrested on January 7, 2024 after attending the Evin Prosecutor's Office.
The...
Today, Thursday, January 1, 2025, at least 9 journalists and media activists are imprisoned in Iran; Nasrin Hasani in Bojnurd, Zhina Madras Gorji in Sanandaj,...
In the first official reaction from the Iranian government regarding the arrest of "Cecilia Sala," the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance has accused this...
Cecilia Sala, a 29-year-old Italian journalist who traveled to Iran to report, was arrested in Tehran.
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on December 27,...
The Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced Reza Valizadeh, a former journalist for the Persian section of Radio Free Europe (Radio Farda) and a political prisoner...
The threatening attempt by two armed individuals to enter the residence of Shir Ahmad Shirani, the editor-in-chief of the human rights organization Haal-Vash, was thwarted...
In response to the approval of the bill known as the Hijab and Chastity Law by the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Parliament), more than 140 journalists...
Vida Rabani, a iranian journalist, and Motahareh Gonnei, a student activist, who had been on a hunger strike in protest against the denial of medical...
Vida Rabani, a journalist and political activist, along with Motahareh Ghonei, a student activist, both imprisoned in Evin Prison, have gone on a hunger strike...
The prison sentence of Soltan-Ali Abedi, a iranian journalist and editor of the news website Diyar-e Ayar, ended on Thursday, November 21, 2024. Mr. Abedi...
Today, Sunday, November 17, 2024, at least 11 journalists and media activists are being held in prisons and detention centers across Iran. They include Nasrin...
The temporary detention of Azhdar Piri, the editor of the monthly magazine “International Journal of Nations Research”, continues into the fourth week since his arrest....
Iranian authorities have, for the second time since the arrest of Reza Valizadeh, refused to provide a clear statement regarding the fate of this Iranian-American...
On November 9, 2024, judicial agents arrested Saeed HosseiniNejad, the manager of the Telegram channel "Punel Khabar," to serve his prison sentence. Following his arrest,...
The Court of Appeals in Qazvin has fined Mojtaba Rahimi, an economic journalist and one of the detainees from the "Women, Life, Freedom" protests in...
Today, November 2, 2024, at least nine journalists and media activists are incarcerated in Iran’s prisons and detention centers: Nasrin Hasani in Bojnord, Jina Modares...
Jina Modares Gorji, a journalist and women's rights activist, was arrested and transferred to prison in Sanandaj on Saturday, November 2, 2024, after reporting to...
Mostafa Nemati, a journalist and economic analyst, was transferred to Evin Prison on Tuesday, October 29, 2024, to serve a 40-month prison sentence.
Mostafa Nemati is...
Less than a day after Israel's attack on several military bases in Iran, the Tehran Prosecutor's Office announced that it had filed charges against a...
Now (Thursday, October 24, 2024), at least seven journalists and media activists are incarcerated in Iran's prisons and detention centers: Nasrin Hasani in Bojnord, Shirin...
Kamyar Fakoor, a journalist and labor activist, was released from Evin Prison after serving one year and six months of imprisonment. His release came after...
The spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary threatened media outlets during a press conference, stating that if they published content against groups he referred to as...
Bahareh Shabankariyan, a journalist for Etemad newspaper, has halted her pursuit of the murder case of Dariush Mehrjui and his wife, Vahideh Mohammadifar, following "summons...
Following the publication of a cartoon depicting Prophet Job (Ayoub) by Ham-Mihan Newspaper, the Tehran Prosecutor's Office has filed charges against the outlet.
Hamri Newspaper, affiliated...
Reza Valizadeh, a former journalist for the Persian section of Radio Free Europe (Radio Farda), was detained by the security apparatus of the Islamic Republic...
Officials at Evin Prison in Tehran have prohibited Saeideh Shafiei, a incarcerated journalist, from meeting with her family. A similar restriction has also been imposed...
Approximately one month after the illegal blocking of Sadaf Fatemi's SIM card, the content published by this journalist was also removed from her social media...
Soheil Arabi, a blogger, photographer, and human rights activist, left his place of exile in the city of Borazjan, Bushehr province, upon the completion of...
The Fourth Branch of the Kurdistan Court of Appeals has sentenced Jina Modares Gorji, a journalist and women's rights activist, to two years and four...
As military tensions escalate between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Israel, the Tehran Prosecutor's Office has initiated legal cases against several media outlets and...
Despite nearly two months having passed since President Masoud Pezeshkian's directive to withdraw complaints from government entities against journalists and media, a significant number of...
Parisa Salehi, a journalist residing in Karaj, was released from Kachoui Prison on September 17, 2024, after serving her five-month sentence.
Shortly after her release, Parisa...
The trial concerning the charges against the news outlet "Hamdeli Zanjan" was held illegally—without the presence of an impartial jury in political and press courts...
The Tehran Court of Appeals has sentenced Elaheh Mohammadi, a journalist for Ham-Mihan newspaper, and Niloufar Hamadi, a journalist for Shargh newspaper, to a total...
The Court of Appeals of Markazi Province confirmed the sentence of 40 lashes issued against Salahuddin Khalaj Asadi, a journalist for the weekly "Cheshm Be...
Fatemeh Gholipour, a reporter for Rokna News Agency, was summoned by the FATA Police (Cyber Police) and had a legal case filed against her following...
Simultaneously with the Iranian presidential election campaign and the ongoing judicial and security actions against journalists and media, the Tehran Prosecutor's Office filed charges against...
In the ongoing security and judicial actions against journalists and media outlets since the start of the presidential election campaign in Iran, the Committee for...
In the latest wave of judicial and security actions against journalists and media outlets following the start of the 2024 presidential election campaign, the Tehran...
On July 27, 2024, the Tehran Economic Security Police forces sealed the Farda-e-Eghtesad Media Studio.
According to a source informed by the Defending Free Flow of...
On June 7, 2024, the press court found Mohammad Reza Saadi, the managing director of the newspaper Jahan-e Sanat, and political activist Sadegh Zibakalam guilty....
After 22 days, *Didban Iran* was unblocked and resumed its activities. The news-analysis website was blocked on April 30, 2024, and had been inaccessible to...
Amid increasing pressure on journalists and media outlets in Hormozgan Province, three media associations on Wednesday, May 15, 2024, issued a joint statement protesting what...
In the aftermath of Iran's military attack on Israel, a new wave of judicial actions against journalists and media outlets has been initiated. On April...
Ali Tasnimi, the radio host for Farda-ye Eghtesad, who was arrested on February 5, 2024, (16 Bahman 1402) along with the shutdown of Farda-ye Eghtesad,...
Nasim Soltanbeigi, a journalist imprisoned in Evin Prison, was released on March 9, 2024, due to a temporary suspension of her sentence to pursue treatment...
Zeynab Rahimi, an environmental journalist, was fined on March 4, 2024, for a tweet about the death of Armita Geravand. This marks the third sentence...
On Saturday evening, February 24, 2024, Farda-e Eghtesad resumed its operations after being suspended for 20 days. Despite the media outlet's return, Ali Tasnimi, a...
Ebrahim Rashidi, a journalist and researcher, was released from Meshginshahr Prison on February 22, 2024, after enduring 54 days of temporary detention. He was released...
Rouhollah Nakhaei was detained and transferred to Evin Prison on February 20, 2024 after reporting to the Office for the Implementation of Sentences.
Parto Borhanpour, Nakhaei's...
Mansour Iranpour, a former political prisoner and journalist, has been ordered to pay seven million tomans in fines.
The 113th branch of the Criminal Court of...
Since the beginning of 2024, "spreading lies" has been the most frequently attributed charge to journalists and media outlets in Iran. This charge, often applied...
Following the publication of a poll on Khabar Online regarding the level of citizen participation in elections, this media outlet was forced to delete its...
The Revolutionary Court of Bandar Lengeh sentenced "Mehrdad Darva," a journalist residing in Hormozgan province, to 100 days of punitive imprisonment and six months of...
The Second Branch of the Revolutionary Court in Khorramabad sentenced Ghazaleh Zare to a total of three years in prison.
Deutsche Welle reported on January 22,...
On January 15, 2023, prison officials at Ardabil Central Prison shaved the head of journalist Ebrahim Rashidi after he was transferred from the Ardabil Intelligence...
Security forces in Ardabil arrested "Sina Bandalizadeh," a media activist residing in the city, on Tuesday, January 15, 2024. Two days after the arrest of...
One day after the release of "Elahe Mohammadi" and "Niloufar Hamedi" from Evin Prison, the judiciary announced that a new case has been filed against...
In less than a month, "Nasrin Hasani," the editor of the weekly magazine "Siyahat Shargh" and a journalist residing in Bojnurd, was sentenced to prison...
"Soltan-Ali Abedi," a iranian journalist and editor of the news site "Diyar-e Ayar," was arrested after reporting to the Third Criminal Execution Branch in Zahedan.
This...