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  • Victim of Child Marriage Faces Execution in Iran
  • Writers and Scholars Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Iran
  • Iran Shuts Down Oldest NGO Supporting Vulnerable Children, Detains Founder
  • UN: Iran’s Surge in Unlawful Executions May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity
  • Iran’s Rappers: Voices of Dissent, Targets of the State

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    • Victim of Child Marriage Faces Execution in Iran
      Victim of Child Marriage Faces Execution in Iran
      November 13, 2025
    • Writers and Scholars Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Iran
      Writers and Scholars Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Iran
      November 6, 2025
    • Iran Shuts Down Oldest NGO Supporting Vulnerable Children, Detains Founder
      Iran Shuts Down Oldest NGO Supporting Vulnerable Children, Detains Founder
      November 3, 2025
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    Victim of Child Marriage Faces Execution in Iran

    Victim of Child Marriage Faces Execution in Iran

    November 13, 2025

    Execution Scheduled for December Unless $90K Paid for Killing Abusive Husband Denied Lawyer During Interrogation, Coerced into Confession Despite Illiteracy November 13, 2025 — At only 12 years old, Goli Kouhkan was forced ...

    Writers and Scholars Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Iran

    Writers and Scholars Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Iran

    November 6, 2025

    Whereabouts Unknown, No Contact with Families or Lawyers Iranian Authorities' Attack on Intellectuals Meant to Silence Any Independent Thought November 6, 2025 — In a coordinated operation targeting members of Iran’s intellectual community, ...

    Iran Shuts Down Oldest NGO Supporting Vulnerable Children, Detains Founder

    Iran Shuts Down Oldest NGO Supporting Vulnerable Children, Detains Founder

    November 3, 2025

    NGO Leader Held Without Charge, Whereabouts Unknown, Denied Access to Family and Lawyer State’s Intensifying Assault on Civil Society Will Worsen Crisis Facing Iran’s Children November 3, 2025 — The Iranian authorities have ...

    UN: Iran’s Surge in Unlawful Executions May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity

    UN: Iran’s Surge in Unlawful Executions May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity

    November 3, 2025

    November 3, 2025 — The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran has sounded the alarm over the serious deterioration of the human rights situation in Iran, including unlawful killings, mass ...

    Iran’s Rappers: Voices of Dissent, Targets of the State

    Iran’s Rappers: Voices of Dissent, Targets of the State

    October 27, 2025

    Artists Face Arrests, Torture, Forced Confessions, Prison October 27, 2025 — In Iran, rap music has become a powerful and peaceful form of dissent, with many rappers using their lyrics to express ...

    Political Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Highlights Plight of Religious and Political Prisoners in Iran

    Political Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Highlights Plight of Religious and Political Prisoners in Iran

    October 23, 2025

    Nasim Simiyari Protests Iran’s Brutal Persecution of Baha’is, Demands Release of Fariba Kamalabadi October 23, 2025 — In Iran, where defendants are convicted after sham trials, prisoners are abused, ...

    Iran’s New Tactics to Crush Mandatory Hijab Resistance: Business Raids and Surveillance

    Iran’s New Tactics to Crush Mandatory Hijab Resistance: Business Raids and Surveillance

    October 15, 2025

    Closures, Undercover Agents, and Prosecutions Replace Street Patrols in New Phase of Mandatory Hijab Enforcement October 15, 2025 — The battle over the mandatory hijab in Iran is far from over. Despite ...

    Iran’s Qarchak Prison: A Place of Death That Must Be Closed

    Iran’s Qarchak Prison: A Place of Death That Must Be Closed

    October 7, 2025

    Three Women Prisoners Dead in Ten Days After Denial of Medical Care October 7, 2025 — In the span of just over a week, three women have died from the ...

    Three Years After Bloody Friday, Iran Shields Commanders Behind the Massacre of Over 100 Protesters

    Three Years After Bloody Friday, Iran Shields Commanders Behind the Massacre of Over 100 Protesters

    September 30, 2025

    "We Killed Them; Take Your Blood Money" Low-Level Officers Receive Light Sentences, Senior Officials Walk Free; Families of Victims Coerced into Silence and Denied Justice September 30, 2025 —Three years after Islamic Republic ...

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    Iran Protests: Voices from Iran (Updated)

    Our team at the Center for Human Rights in Iran is in daily contact with Iranians throughout the country. In this regularly updated post, we publish what we are hearing from Iranians from all walks of life.

    Images of Resistance: Photographers Who Documented Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement

    For the second anniversary of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom movement, the Center for Human Rights in Iran partnered with Middle East Images to present a powerful collection of photographs and interviews, highlighting the courage of the protesters who stood up to the Islamic Republic’s security forces and the photographers who documented their resistance. The photographs were taken by photojournalists who have faced state violence and detention for exposing the unwavering courage of Iran’s peaceful rights movement and the brutality of the Islamic Republic’s violent crackdown on protesters.

    Webinar: Day of the Endangered Lawyer Highlights Plight of Iranian Lawyers

    Co-organised by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), the International Observatory of Lawyers (OIAD), the Geneva Bar Association (Ordre des Avocats de Genève), the event highlighted the plight of Iranian lawyers who face persecution for carrying out their professional duties to uphold human rights and the rule of law.

    Webinar: Legal Challenges Facing Iran’s “Woman Life Freedom” Movement

    Rights and Revolt: Three Lawyers Analyze the Legal Terrain of Iran's "Women Life Freedom" Movement In anticipation of the anniversary of Iran's transformative "Women, Life, Freedom" movement, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) hosted a webinar on September 12, 2023, featuring distinguished human rights

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