In VOA Persian interview, Iranian teacher unionist Ali Akbar Baghani says students risk virus exposure if forced back to classrooms, face inability to connect to online classes
In interview with VOA Persian, attorney Saleh Nikbakht warned of dangerous virus hot spots in prisons where dissidents have been kept as other inmates are temporarily released
Iranians jailed for alleged political and security crimes and their relatives tell VOA Persian they are increasingly worried about the contagion risk in prisons, as other inmates are granted furloughs
Amnesty International's Iran researcher tells VOA Persian she determined death toll by using eyewitness accounts, social media videos and reports of exiled Iranian human rights activists
Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman accused Tehran of 'worrying patterns of intimidation, arrest, prosecution, and ill-treatment' of dissidents in Monday presentation to UN Human Rights Council
Speaking to VOA Persian, Iranian activists join State Department in denouncing appointment of Ebrahim Raisi, accused of role in 1988 mass executions of dissidents
Speaking to VOA Persian, Jolan Farhadi Babadi says Iranian security agents detained his brother, environmentalist Yousef Farhadi Babadi, in the western city of Shahrekord on Sunday
Wife of Ahmad Reza Jalali, sentenced to death in Iran for collaborating with a hostile government, tells VOA Persian that he recently suffered a botched hernia surgery and anemia
An Iranian Baha'i community member told VOA Persian that Iranian authorities detained a Baha'i man living in Yazd and freed on bail a Baha'i woman from Karaj
Baha’i activists criticize Iran’s delayed release of an ailing Baha’i leader jailed for a decade and its 11-year sentence for a Baha’i woman accused of security offenses
Photos sent to VOA Persian on Monday showed dozens of doctors and their supporters holding signs calling for hospitalization of Farhad Meysami, who has been on a hunger strike for months
Five activists arrested Sunday in southern city of Shush during a labor protest remained in detention Wednesday, with prosecutors opening a security-related case against them
