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September 24, 2024

Interview: The Ongoing Struggle of Iran’s Teachers

Shiva Ameli-Rad, Leading Advocate for Teachers’ Rights in Iran, Talks About the Teachers’ Movement and the Woman Life Freedom Uprising One of the most active female advocates for teacher’s rights… ...

September 16, 2024

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… ...

September 11, 2024

A Quiet Revolution Continues in Iran Two Years After the Woman Life Freedom Uprising

…Symbol of Islamic Republic Repression Becomes Normalized September 11, 2024 – Two years ago, 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini lost her life because she was walking down a Tehran street with an “improper”… ...

April 17, 2024

Iran Ramps Up Violence and Repression Against Women and Girls Amid Regional Tensions

April 17, 2024 – The Iranian government’s escalating violence and repression against women and girls who refuse to comply with the state’s compulsory hijab law requires a firm international response,… ...

November 17, 2023

Peaceful Protesters’ Plight in Iran: Abductions and Forced Confessions

November 17, 2023 – An arbitrarily detained woman, facing unjust imprisonment in Iran, has provided a detailed account of her violent abduction amid mass arrests of peaceful protesters who were… ...

June 1, 2023

Students Arrested and Banished, Professors Fired in Latest State Crackdown in Iran

University Officials Are Committing Major Rights Violations, Say Students At Least 720 Students Arrested Since Protests Began in September 2022 June 1, 2023 – University students and professors in Iran… ...

March 10, 2023

Teachers Across Iran Protest Government’s Inaction on School Gas Attacks

Arrests, Tear Gas Against Peaceful Protesters Reported by Eyewitnesses Government Dithers While Thousands of Schoolgirls Sickened Amid ongoing poison gas attacks reported at girls’ schools in dozens of cities in… ...

February 1, 2023

Children’s Rights Advocates, Mainly Women, Targeted in Crackdown on Anti-State Protests in Iran

Women Aiding Vulnerable Children Detained As State Broadens Efforts to Crush Movement for Change February 1, 2023 – Women who have devoted their lives to aiding underprivileged and at-risk youth… ...

December 14, 2022

Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women

Two Major UN Votes Signal World’s Revulsion at Islamic Republic’s Violence against Protesters December 14, 2022 – The vote today by the UN Economic and Social Council to remove the… ...

October 23, 2020

Iran Moving Women Political Prisoners to Jails with “Common Criminals”

Sotoudeh and Three Other Activists Transferred Out of Evin’s Women’s Ward to Other Prisons As part of a new policy to isolate political prisoners by incarcerating them alongside common criminals… ...

September 20, 2020

Nasrin Sotoudeh in Hospital, Condition Deteriorating, Family Denied Access and Information

Husband Catches Glimpse as She is Wheeled for Tests: “She does not look well at all” Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer on Hunger Strike Since August 11 to Free Iran’s Political… ...

August 18, 2020

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Daughter Detained, Persecution of Imprisoned Lawyer’s Family Intensifies

Arrest of Mehraveh Khandan Aimed at Forcing Sotoudeh to End Her Hunger Strike in Prison August 18, 2020—Mehraveh Khandan, the 20-year-old daughter of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, was… ...

June 23, 2020

No Lawyers, No Justice: Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran for Defending Human Rights

At Least Nine Defense Attorneys Sentenced to Prison Since 2018 June 23, 2020 – Two years after the prominent human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested and imprisoned in Tehran,… ...

May 21, 2020

Six-Year Prison Sentence Against French-Iranian Academic Unfounded, Lawyer Says

Fariba Adelkhah, Imprisoned For Almost a Year, Is in Good Spirits But “Suffering Physically” The six-year prison sentence issued against Iranian-born French anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah has no legal foundation, her… ...

August 19, 2019

Arrests, Prison Sentences Fail to Stem Growing Public Opposition to Iran’s Mandatory Hijab Law

At Least 12 People Sentenced to Prison Since January 2018 August 19, 2019 – Mounting arrests and prison sentences have not enabled Iran’s government to achieve broad public compliance with… ...

June 6, 2019

Nazanin Boniadi: “Silence is Not an Option”

As a girl visiting her birth country of Iran, British actress Nazanin Boniadi got a taste of the severely restricted rights women there live with on a daily basis. That… ...

May 28, 2019

Icon of Iran’s Hijab Protest Movement Vida Movahedi Released From Prison

Eight months after she was arrested for peacefully protesting Iran’s compulsory hijab law, Vida Movahedi was released from prison on May 26, 2019, her lawyer announced. “According to judicial authorities,… ...

May 6, 2019

Tweets Against Iran’s Compulsory Hijab Law Land Male Activist in Prison

…Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani, criticizing Iran’s compulsory hijab law, and condemning the state’s suppression of street protests. “Branch 28 of the Appeals Court in Mazandaran Province upheld a sentence of… ...

April 16, 2019

Hijab Protester Vida Movahedi Remains Detained Despite Eligibility for Release

Movahedi Has Served Five Months of Her One-Year Prison Sentence Vida Movahedi, the woman whose public display of peaceful protest against Iran’s compulsory hijab law was captured in a viral… ...

January 22, 2019

Iran Sentences Men Who Supported Women’s Protests Against Compulsory Hijab to Six Years Prison

Reza Khandan and Farhad Meysami Denied Right to a Public Trial Update: On August 11, 2019, the Appeals Court confirmed Farhad Meysami’s six-year prison sentence and reduced the two-year ban… ...

November 29, 2018

UN Experts: Iran Must Protect Women’s Rights Advocates

Farhad Meysami (left), Nasrin Sotoudeh (middle) and Reza Khandan were all arrested in… ...

November 15, 2018

Banning Imprisoned Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh From Seeing Her Children is Cruel and Unlawful

Nasrin Sotoudeh smiles for a picture with her two children, Nima (left) and Mehraveh (middle). The… ...

August 3, 2018

Iranian Parliamentary Group Reports Drop in Support For Strict Hijab

Conservative-Dominated Parliament Compiles Data Showing Failure of State’s Hijab Policy Iran’s Parliamentary Research Center (PRC) has released a report showing decreasing support among the Iranian public for strict observation of… ...

July 9, 2018

Facing 20-Year Prison Sentence for Taking Headscarf Off in Public, Woman Flees Iran

“Due to the Injustices of Iran’s Judicial System I Had to Leave Iran” Draconian Sentences Demonstrate the Authorities’ Cultural Tyranny July 10, 2018—Shaparak Shajarizadeh, one of the women who took… ...

June 26, 2018

Footnotes

[1] Merriam-Webster’s Medical Dictionary, 2007, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/autism (accessed April 27, 2013); The American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition, 2005, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ autism (accessed April 27, 2013). [2] “Cerebral palsy,”… ...

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