Death Sentences for Three Protestors Confirmed by Supreme Court in Iran
Death Sentences for Three Protestors Confirmed by Supreme Court in Iran Unlawful and Cruel Sentences Reflect Increase in Death Sentences in Political Cases Lawyers’ Last ...
July 8, 2020
Imprisoned Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi May Have COVID-19 Virus, Husband Says
Multiple Prisoners Showing Signs of Virus, No One Tested “Narges Mohammadi is being denied every basic right because she takes a stand” Imprisoned human rights activist ...
July 7, 2020
Atena Daemi Begins New Prison Sentence on Day She Was to Be Freed
Rights Activist Will Serve Two More Years in Prison After Serving Five More New Cases Opened Against Daemi, Maryam Akbari Monfared, Leila Hosseinzadeh and ...
July 3, 2020
UN Condemns Iran’s Secret Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner
“I will pay the price of freedom with my life so that my memory stays ...
July 1, 2020
French-Iranian Academic’s Five-year Prison Sentence Upheld on Appeal
French Government “Condemns” Unjust Decision Against Fariba Adelkhah The five-year prison sentence of French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, held at Evin Prison since ...
June 30, 2020
Designer Amir Taghi Donates Net Proceeds from Mask Sales to Center for Human Rights in Iran
This July, Support CHRI by Purchasing Masks from Amir Taghi's Fashion Line June 30, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran ...
June 28, 2020
UN Must End “Sterile Exchanges” and Investigate Iran’s Lethal Violence against Protesters, Says Father of Slain Demonstrator
Letter Reveals New Details: 144 Bodies Secretly Held in Karaj Medical Examiner’s Office Alone June 29, 2020 — In an impassioned plea to ...
June 25, 2020
Kurdish Prisoner, 27, Secretly Executed Despite Judge Agreeing He Was Innocent
Death Sentence Was Result Pressure from Revolutionary Guards The family of Hedayatollah (Hedayat) Abdollahpour, a 27-year-...
June 25, 2020
Sepideh Qoliyan Refuses to Beg for Pardon, Goes Back to Prison
She Must Serve Five-year Sentence for Reporting on Peaceful Labor Rally Freelance reporter Sepideh Qoliyan, issued a five-year sentence for reporting on ...
June 24, 2020
Prominent Teachers’ Rights Activist Facing Additional Years in Prison
Old Suspended Sentence Resurrected to Keep Esmail Abdi Behind Bars Imprisoned teachers’ rights activist Esmail Abdi, who has been serving a six-year prison sentence ...
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 ...
June 23, 2020
List of Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran for Defending Human Rights (Updated)
At least five defense lawyers are currently imprisoned in Iran for supporting human rights ...
June 18, 2020
World Refugee Day: Watch Nazanin Boniadi’s New DocuFilm “Stateless”
June 18, 2020 -- Last summer, the actress and human rights activist Nazanin Boniadi visited the Northern french cities ...
June 10, 2020
Father of Female Political Prisoner Worries She Has COVID-19 Without Access to Treatment
Fears that the ethnic Kurdish Iranian political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian (also spelled Zeynab) could have contracted COVID-19 in Tehran Province’s Gharchak ...
June 5, 2020
Mother of Jailed Anti-Compulsory Hijab Activist Calls for Legal Reform
*Update: On November 9, 2020, Branch 28 of the Supreme Court rejected a petition by Kord-Afshari’s lawyer, Hosein Taj, to review the 24-year prison sentence ...
June 3, 2020
Get Up, Stand Up: Protest and the Struggle for Justice
The murder of George Floyd was not just the killing of one man, it was an assault on justice and the rule ...
May 26, 2020
“They Aimed at My Son’s Head”: Report Reveals Carnage in Crushed Iran Protests
May 27, 2020 — A new report released today by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) documents the extraordinary state ...
May 18, 2020
French Academic Fariba Adelkhah Sentenced to Six Years Imprisonment in Iran
Nearly one year after she was detained in Tehran, Iranian-born French anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah was sentenced to a total ...
May 12, 2020
Persian Translation: UN Guidance on Protecting People with Disabilities from COVID-19
May 12, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) today published an unofficial Persian translation of the UN’s ...
May 11, 2020
Mourning the Passing of Ali Ajami
We at the Center for Human Rights in Iran mourn the death of our former colleague Ali Ajami, and express our ...
May 11, 2020
Human Rights Lawyer Sentenced to Prison Without Access to Counsel
Four Defense Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran in Less Than Two Years Human rights attorney Payam Derafshan was denied access to counsel while ...
May 7, 2020
Australian Academic Who Attempted Suicide Should be Freed from Unlawful Confinement in Iran
Scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert Kept in Bathroom-Like Temporary Holding Cell Since 2018 May 7, 2020 – A British-Australian academic held in isolation in Iran ...
May 4, 2020
Coronavirus in Iran: Information Saves Lives
Together We Can Help This Giving Tuesday Now, please support our campaign to save the lives of Iranians gravely endangered by the government’s disregard for ...
April 30, 2020
Jailed Activist’s Son Threatened with Imprisonment to Silence Dissent
Three Relatives of Iranian Dissidents Arbitrarily Prosecuted in One Month Amid a renewed crackdown on peaceful criticism of Iranian state policies, the ...
April 28, 2020
Novelist Brother of “Iran’s Bob Dylan” Loses Appeal Against Politically Motivated Prison Sentence
Iranian Judiciary Contiguously Targeting Dissidents’ Family Members Iran’s Appeals Court upheld a one-year prison sentence against novelist Hamid Namjoo for the ...