The diplomatic service and foreign and defence ministry of the EU, European Union External Action (EEAS), has condemned the conviction of prominent Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh and urged Iran to guarantee her and her ...
National Geographic has failed to report on the death of a prominent wildlife conservationist in Iran in an article about wildlife conservation in Iran. The conservationist, Dr. Kavous Seyed-Emami, ...
Seat for Imprisoned Lawyer Was Left Empty at the Council’s Meeting Last Month The husband of imprisoned human rights attorney ...
In a statement published March 5, 2019, the highest ranking agency in the United Nations on the environment has called on Iran to guarantee a fair, transparent and independent trial for eight conservationists detained there ...
For 10 years, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has been working to support the basic rights and freedoms of the Iranian people and hold the Iranian government accountable to its international human rights obligations. ...
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Twenty-six members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have urged Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to free eight conservationists who are currently ...
The appointment of Ebrahim Raisi, who participated in “death commissions” that ordered the extrajudicial executions of thousands of prisoners in Iran in 1988, as Iran’s next head of the judiciary, will represent a complete repudiation of the rule of law and a reward for those ...
Three Major State Agencies Rejected Charges of Espionage, Indictment Based on Retracted False “Confessions” February 11, 2019 – Amid eight conservationists’ closed-door trial in Iran’s revolutionary court system, the Center for ...
One Dead, Eight Others At Grave Risk for Harm Detainees, Jailed for 12 Months, Denied Counsel, Could Face Death Penalty January 24, 2019 – Some of the conservationists who have been imprisoned incommunicado in Iran for the ...
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 ...
Atena Daemi’s Mother: “[Torture] is not just Mr. Bakhshi’s story. It’s my daughter’s story, too.” In the wake of revelations of the torture of labor activist Esmail Bakhshi, others have stepped forward to join the ...
Judicial Order Tied to Previously Undeclared Policy of App Usage Level Eight months after Iran blocked the country’s most widely used messaging app, Telegram, a deputy prosecutor has announced a judicial order to also ...
Will Take “Other Steps” if Authorities Continue to “Endanger” Their Health Political prisoners Narges Mohammadi and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe have written an open letter warning that they will go on hunger strike if the authorities continue ...
Teachers who were peacefully protesting a fellow colleague’s heavy prison sentence were met with tear gas by anti-riot units who made “several arrests” in the Iranian city of Isfahan on December 27, 2018, a trade ...
Two years after it was introduced to Iran’s Parliament, the parliamentary Committee for Judicial and Legal Affairs has rejected a ...
Government Does Not Differentiate Between Intellectual and Psychological Disabilities At least 1.5 million people were living with intellectual disabilities in Iran in 2018 but only 350,000 of them were registered with the State Welfare Organization ...
While searching Ali Ahmadi's house, agents of Iran's ...
Mohammad Najafi has been in Arak Central Prison since October 2018 serving a three-year sentence (currently being ...
December 14, 2018 — Adding its voice to an increasingly international call, the European Parliament has overwhelmingly passed a motion urging the Iranian authorities to “immediately and unconditionally release” prominent human rights attorney ...
In an open letter published December 9, 2018, 121 Nobel Laureates have called on Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to ...
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” --Margaret Mead, Anthropologist This holiday season, reaffirm your commitment to protecting and ...
The following open letter was written and signed by six families of dual and foreign nationals who have ...
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