Prisoners

An Iranian labour activist and netizen has been arrested by Iran’s cyber police.
American soul blues singer Mighty Sam McClain and Iranian folk singer Mahsa Vahdat have jointly performed a song in dedicated to jailed human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh.
Four converts to Christianity have been arrested in Iran in, reports an Iranian rights group.
An adviser to Iran's parliamentary speaker says Tehran has refused a request by a group of European lawmakers to visit two jailed dissidents to present them with awards.
The European Union's prize for human rights and freedom of thought was awarded to two Iranians on Friday, a lawyer and a filmmaker who have both been cut off from the outside world for defying the country's leadership.
A group of Iranian opposition figures have called on delegates at the 127th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly to press Iran to address its poor human rights record, in particular the continued imprisonment of former lawmakers in the country’s jails.
Prominent religious scholar Ahmad Ghabel has passed away at Mashhad’s Ghaem hospital after a yearlong battle with cancer.
Iran’s pro-democracy Green Movement has called on the Syrian opposition to ensure the release of Iranian hostages held by rebel forces.
Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi is gravely concerned about the livelihoods of ordinary Iranians amid international sanctions aimed at Iran’s nuclear programme.
A Gonabadi Sufi has been sentenced to a year in prison, an opposition site reports.