Featured News & Analysis
Bamdad Bidar, Prisoners' Cultural Zine
A work of art and heart from Evin Prison: Read in English or Farsi
August 13, 2025
Stand with and Emulate Iran's Brave, Tenacious Voices of Conscience
Brutal transfer of prisoners; merchants strike against executions
August 11, 2025
Interview with Renowned Author Nasser Mohajer
Important insights into the resilience of Iran’s political prisoners, and the danger they face from Iran’s regime
August 2, 2025
Prisoners’ Resistance Persists As Theocrats Fast-Track Death Sentences to Punish and Prevent Further Rebellion
Solidarity actions around the world; Repression targets minorities
July 28, 2025
Letter from 9 political prisoners: “Our Responsibility Concerning the Suffering of Others"
Evin prisoners write on standing with Gaza & a crossroads facing Iranian dissidents
July 28, 2025
Read & Sign
"A brutal campaign of arrests, torture and executions is now taking place in Iran. This is an emergency. The lives and dignity of hundreds of political prisoners are in imminent, mortal danger.”
The Emergency Appeal (first issued by the IEC in March 2021) was published as a full page ad in The New York Review of Books summer 2021 issue and in the summer 2022 issue of Ms. magazine. The core content of the Appeal as well as its important demands continue to be relevant, and the breadth and prominence of its list of global signers remain most unique and impactful. Read in full
Partial list of signers*
Noam Chomsky, Professor Emeritus MIT; Professor, Univ. of Arizona
Ariel Dorfman, Author, Death and the Maiden
Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize 2003
Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Prize 1997 for her work to ban landmines
Gloria Steinem, Writer, feminist activist
Cornel West, Scholar-activist, Union Theological Seminary
Daniel Ellsberg (dec.), Author, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam & the Pentagon Papers
Full list of signers
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