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… ...
…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 – 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 – 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… ...
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… ...
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… ...
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… ...
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… ...
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… ...
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… ...
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… ...
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… ...
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,… ...
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… ...
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… ...
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… ...
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,… ...
…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… ...
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… ...
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… ...
Farhad Meysami (left), Nasrin Sotoudeh (middle) and Reza Khandan were all arrested in… ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh smiles for a picture with her two children, Nima (left) and Mehraveh (middle). The… ...
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… ...
“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… ...
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