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  • Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers
  • 43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Renew Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies
  • UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation
  • Iranian Authorities Are Killing Prisoners by Denying Lifesaving Medical Care
  • Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures

  • PRESS RELEASES

    • Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers
      Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers
      March 18, 2025
    • 43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Renew Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies
      43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Renew Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies
      March 18, 2025
    • UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation
      UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation
      March 14, 2025
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    Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers

    Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers

    March 18, 2025

    Iran’s Lawyers in a “Perilous Position,” Face Arrest, Torture and Imprisonment Statement Asks UN to Relay Concerns Directly to Iranian Authorities March 18, 2025—In a joint statement released today, the Center for Human ...

    43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Renew Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies

    43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Renew Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies

    March 18, 2025

    Work of the Special Rapporteur and the Fact-Finding Mission Deemed Critical Given “Full-fledged Human Rights Crisis” in Iran March 18, 2025 – A broad coalition of international human rights organizations, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), has issued an urgent public appeal urging Member States of the UN ...

    UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation

    UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation

    March 14, 2025

    Fact-Finding Mission Cites Widescale Murder, Imprisonment, Torture and Rape UN: Systematic Abuses Continue, Accountability Outside Iran Should be Pursued March 14, 2025 – In a new report based on a two-year investigation, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran (FFMI) states that two and a half years after the “Woman, ...

    Iranian Authorities Are Killing Prisoners by Denying Lifesaving Medical Care

    Iranian Authorities Are Killing Prisoners by Denying Lifesaving Medical Care

    March 12, 2025

    At Least Four Prisoners Dead in Just Two Months CHRI Speaks to Cellmate of Political Prisoner Who Died Due to Medical Neglect March 12, 2025 — At least four prisoners have died in ...

    Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures

    Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures

    March 6, 2025

    This International Women’s Day, the World Must Declare Gender Apartheid a Crime Against Humanity March 6, 2025 — In Iran, women are second-class citizens—systematically oppressed by laws and policies that serve only ...

    Joint Statement: Stop the Imminent Deportation of Activist Nahid Modaressi to Iran

    Joint Statement: Stop the Imminent Deportation of Activist Nahid Modaressi to Iran

    February 25, 2025

    Refugees in Turkey at High Risk of Imprisonment, Torture if Returned to Iran February 25, 2025 — We, the undersigned organizations, urgently call on the Turkish government to immediately halt the deportation of Nahid Modaressi, an Iranian dissident ...

    Joint Statement: 20 Rights Organizations Alarmed by Appointment of Notorious Judge as Head of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights

    Joint Statement: 20 Rights Organizations Alarmed by Appointment of Notorious Judge as Head of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights

    February 20, 2025

    February 20, 2025 — In a joint statement released today, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) alongside nineteen human rights organizations, condemned the appointment of Nasser Seraj, a notorious ...

    Death Sentence for Woman Labor Activist In Iran Re-Issued

    Death Sentence for Woman Labor Activist In Iran Re-Issued

    February 19, 2025

    Sharifeh Mohammadi’s Second Death Sentence Imposed on Her Son’s 13th Birthday Three Women Political Prisoners Face Execution on Sham Charges February 19, 2025 — Iranian authorities have once again sentenced female labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi to death, ...

    FP: Trump’s Grand Bargain With Iran Shouldn’t Abandon Its People

    FP: Trump’s Grand Bargain With Iran Shouldn’t Abandon Its People

    February 12, 2025

    Trump has significant leverage to negotiate a new nuclear deal with Tehran that also protects protesters. This article was originally published on Foreign Policy. February 11, 2025 By ...

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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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