Iran Considers Lifting Its Nine-Year Ban on Twitter
A meeting of Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace. State Body Calls Social Media an “Effective Means of Public Diplomacy” The ...
A meeting of Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace. State Body Calls Social Media an “Effective Means of Public Diplomacy” The ...
Ongoing harassment of BBC Persian staff continues despite repeated UN criticism March 12, 2017—The UN should take immediate action on an appeal by the British Broadcasting Service (BBC) urging the Human Rights Council to protect journalists from an escalating campaign of ...
March 12--Ahead of the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council, 46 Iranian and international non-governmental organizations sent a letter to all diplomatic missions based ...
Upon arriving in Vancouver, Canada, on March 8, 2018, the sons of Kavous Seyed-Emami--the Iranian-Canadian academic who died in Tehran's Evin ...
Gonabadi Dervish Detainee Died From “Blows to the Head,” Says Daughter March 6, 2018—The recent death of a devotee of Iran’s largest Sufi order in Tehran ...
Karan Vafadari (left) with his son, Cyrus. Wife and Son of Karan Vafadari Fear For His Life After Suspicious Deaths in Prison March 1, 2018—The son of Iranian-American Karan Vafadari, ...
February 28, 2018—Forty-five members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have sent an open letter to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini urging her to call on Iranian officials ...
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A Session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Rights Violations Continue Under President Rouhani’s Watch February 22, 2018 — Iran’s deteriorating human rights record requires the UN Human Rights Council to renew ...
Some Detainees Allowed Brief Contact With Their Families Environmental activists who were detained at the same time as Kavous Seyed-Emami—who recently died in ...
Atena Daemi (right) with her mother Masoumeh Nemati. Masoumeh Nemati, the mother of imprisoned civil rights activist Atena Daemi, was attacked in front of Evin Prison in ...
Kavous Seyed Emami and his son, Ramin. Ramin Seyed-Emami Says Family is Seeking Independent Investigation February 14, 2018 -- The son of ...
Prominent Quran reciter Saeed Tousi shakes hands with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Reformist MP Releases Info ...
Two day after a former senior British politician expressed ...
“They arrested him and then they beat and killed him. Now they want to destroy his reputation.” January 11, 2018—Iran should launch an independent investigation of the cases ...
January 10, 2018--An estimated 4,000 prisoners currently on death row in Iran for drug-related crimes could have their death sentences revoked according to a just-issued judicial order ...
A coalition of Iranian human rights NGOs including Centre for Defenders of Human Rights, Centre for Human Rights in Iran, Impact Iran, Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre, Justice for Iran, and the Siamak Pourzand Foundation, ...
A family photo of Richard Ratcliffe, Gabriella, and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. December 21, 2017--The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has ...
GENEVA (20 December 2017) – United Nations human rights experts* have appealed to Iran to annul the death sentence against an Iranian academic, saying ...
Blood money should be calculated on the basis of actual costs and inflation, not the market price for camels, as it is currently based on ...
“I know I will not be treated fairly by the judiciary.” A prominent Iranian lawyer who was previously imprisoned for her peaceful defense of human rights has refused to ...
Three political prisoners serving life sentences have been transferred from Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, to Orumiyeh Central Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, 444 miles away, without a court order ...
Thirty-four Iranian and international NGOs, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), have sent a joint letter to UN General Assembly member states urging them to support Resolution A/C.3/72/L.41, on human rights in Iran, which will be voted on next week before the ...
November 2, 2017 -- The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) today released a video about the criminal investigation by Iran's judiciary of 152 current and former staff members of BBC Persian. The defendants, all Iranian ...
Asma Jahangir, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In presenting ...