Iran: Arrest of High-Profile Critics

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image Mostafa Tajzadeh, Iranian reformist politician, speaks during an interview in Tehran, Iran on June 15, 2021. © 2021 The Yomiuri Shimbun via AP Images (Beirut) – Iranian authorities’ recent arrests of high-profile critics are part of a fresh crackdown on peaceful dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities arrested a reformist critic, Mostafa Tajzadeh, and two film directors, Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Al-Ahmad, on July 9, 2022, followed on July 11, by another film director, Jafar Panahi. “Unable or unwilling to tackle the many severe challenges facing…

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