Authorities Deny Prisoners Medical Treatment and Safety Measures Despite a renewed wave of COVID-19 infections in Iranian prisons, a growing number of infected political prisoners have been denied proper treatment, raising fears of more unnecessary deaths of prisoners in state custody. In a non-exhaustive study, Amnesty International has ...
August 5, 2022 – Increasing arbitrary arrests of members of the persecuted Baha’i faith in Iran, and an intensifying government-sponsored campaign of destruction and confiscation of their properties should be internationally condemned, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of ...
Longstanding, Severe Violations of International Standards for Prisoners International Community Should Demand Closure of Facility For more than a decade, the inmates incarcerated at Iran’s Gharchak Prison for women have been desperately protesting inhumane, unsafe and unlawful conditions at the facility that violate all international norms and standards for prisons. Consistent reports ...
Conviction Opens Door for More Trials Against Officials Accused of Atrocities July 14, 2022 -- After 92 sessions of a trial that lasted almost a year, a court in Stockholm, Sweden ...
Less than a month after the intelligence chief of the Iranian military’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was replaced, a crackdown on dissent is being ramped up in the country ...
Treaty Encourages Hostage-Taking, Would Return Convicted Terrorist to Iran July 5, 2022 – More than 400 leading Iranian human rights activists, dissidents and family members of victims of Iranian state repression and ...
Iranian Court Refers to France as an “Enemy Government” June 28, 2022 – Countries negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program, including France, the U.K., and the U.S., as well as European Union foreign ...
Same Efforts Applied to Nuclear Deal Can and Should Be Given to Human Rights President Biden Has Also Remained Silent on State’s Violent Crackdown in Iran June 27, 2022 - European Union foreign policy chief ...
On May 9, 2022, Anisha Asadollahi and her husband, Keyvan Mohtadi, both labor rights activists, were arrested by security forces in Tehran after serving as translators for two French nationals who were arrested a few days later. Teachers in Iran had been waging ...
In a statement released today by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani, the UN called on the Iranian government, headed by President Ebrahim Raisi and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, to rescind a finger amputation sentence ...
Supreme Leader’s COVID Vaccine Ban Resulted in Thousands of Unnecessary Deaths June 22, 2022 – For trying to sue Iranian leaders for their grossly negligent response to the COVID-19 pandemic, three ...
In his latest report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern over the rising number of executions in the Islamic of Iran, as well as ...
Eight Prisoners Could Soon See Their Fingers Cut Off June 15, 2022 – In violation of its international obligations against torture, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s judicial system has authorized ...
Former female cellmates of a group of wildlife conservationists who’ve been unjustly imprisoned in Iran since January 2018 penned the following letter as a tribute to their nature-loving friends on the occasion ...
May 17, 2022 – At least five protesters are dead amid a violent state crackdown on street demonstrations in Iran, while the authorities have blocked internet access in protest hot zones, pressured domestic media not to cover the protests, and arrested growing numbers of protesters and activists. Yet ...
May 4, 2022 – The Iranian government’s threat to execute Swedish scientist Ahmadreza Djalali later this month is aimed at thwarting the trial in Sweden against Iranian official ...
Iranian security forces arrested at least 28 teachers in the four days leading up to international workers’ day, between April 28 and May 1, 2022, according to the Iranian Teachers Trade Unions ...
The government of President Ebrahim Raisi should end the state’s campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of victims of state violence, including those who died during street protests ...
Longtime human rights defender and former prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi is peacefully refusing to report to prison in Tehran to serve an eight-year sentence that was issued against her after a five-minute trial ...
Defense attorney Amirsalar Davoudi was imprisoned in Iran for running a social media channel that provided information to lawyers. *Editor's Note: Amirsalar Davoudi was forced to return ...
Fears Mount for Young Activist Who is Being Denied Crucial Medical Treatment March 10, 2022 – Two months after two political prisoners died in Iranian state custody, the Center for Human Rights ...
Continued Refusal to Provide Proper Medical Care Risks More Prisoner Deaths March 3, 2022 - The continued denial of proper medical treatment to ailing political and civil rights activists in Iran is ...
Lawyer Unlawfully Imprisoned for His Defense of Basic Civil and Political Liberties March 3, 2022 – The lawyer Mohammad Najafi, who has been unlawfully and unjustly imprisoned in Iran since 2018 on multiple ...
Amid an intensifying campaign of political repression in Iran, state authorities have been summoning, detaining, and imprisoning peaceful labor rights activists and a journalist in various cities throughout the country. A lawyer ...
Political Dissident Jamshid Sharmahd Is Unable to Defend Himself in Iranian Judicial System World Must Speak Out against Iran’s Abductions and Attacks on Dissidents Abroad February 8, 2022 – An Iranian-born German citizen, U.S. ...