May 24, 2023

World Leaders Urged to Radically Increase Pressure on Iran to Cease Executions

Islamic Republic Is Severely Violating International Laws Governing Death Penalty Protesters Hanged After Sham Trials, Minorities Targeted for Capital Punishment May ...

May 20, 2023

UN Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission on Iran Condemns Surging Executions

UN Photo Press briefing by Mr. Javaid Rehman, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of ...

May 17, 2023

More Executions of Protesters in Iran Imminent after Sham Trials

Prosecution of Three Young Men Relied on Torture, Forced “Confessions” Defendant: "They kept beating me to make me tell their version of their crime on camera" *Editor's Note: Saeed Yaghoubi, Saleh Mirhashemi, and Majid Kazemi were hanged on May 19, ...

May 4, 2023

Activists Detained, Workers Threatened as Oil Industry Workers Strike in Iran

ILO Must Speak Out Forcefully Against Islamic Republic’s Abuses Against Labor May 4, 2023 – Strikers in Iran’s ...

May 4, 2023

Dozens of Labor Activists Detained, Thousands of Workers Threatened as Strikes Roil Iran

ILO Must Speak Out Forcefully Against Islamic Republic’s Abuses Against Labor Strikers in Iran’s oil, gas and petrochemicals ...

April 24, 2023

Iran: School Girls Continue to Face Chemical Attacks, Officials Refuse to Provide Security

Authorities Threaten Students, Families and Teachers While Refusing to Provide Transparent Investigations School Girls and Staff Describe Being Forced to Stay in Affected Buildings While Authorities Dismiss Concerns April 24, 2023 – Five months after the first report of a ...

April 6, 2023

Imprisoned Dissident Rapper Toomaj Salehi, Voice of Iran’s Protests, Faces Possible Execution

Sources Close to Toomaj Urge International Community to Demand His Release Before Trial Begins Imprisoned Unjustly Since October 2022, in Urgent Need of Medical Care April 6, 2023 – The international community, including music and arts institutions as well ...

March 23, 2023

Journalists Denied Release from Prison Amid Supreme Leader’s “Pardon” PR Ploy

More than a month has passed since the Iranian government issued a “pardon” for an unverified number of prisoners and detainees following the arrests of tens of thousands of people across the country amid anti-state protests ...

March 17, 2023

Iranian and French Lawyers, Doctors Demand Release of Lawyer Mohammad Najafi

31 Lawyers and Doctors Call for Freedom of “Peace-Seeking Lawyer and Human Rights Activist” In a joint letter published today, 31 doctors and ...

March 13, 2023

Another Abducted Dissident Sentenced to Death in Iran

Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence Against Habib Farajollah Chaab After Show Trial Three Foreign Dissidents Have Been Abducted and Sentenced to Death in ...

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 Iran, the Coordinating Council of the Iranian Teachers ...

March 9, 2023

CHRI Board Member Mehrangiz Kar Receives Women’s Award for Justice and Advocacy from NYC Bar Association

March 9, 2023 – Iranian human rights lawyer and activist Mehrangiz Kar, a board member of the Center for ...

March 6, 2023

20 Prominent Iranian Lawyers Call on UN to Investigate School Girl Poisonings

Over 1,000 Students, Mostly Girls, Poisoned by Gas in Iran Since November 2022 March 6, 2023 – Twenty prominent human rights lawyers from Iran today published a letter urgently calling for an independent, joint committee—comprised of experts from the ...

March 3, 2023

Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi: I Will “Testify” About Sexual Assault Against Protesters

Prominent Human Rights Defender Takes Grave Risks by Penning Open Letter in Prison “As a witness in both cases ...

February 28, 2023

One Girl Dead, 400 Children Poisoned Amid Attacks on Schools in Iran

Unfettered Acts of Terror Against School Girls Raise Questions of Government Complicity School Girls Enthusiastically Participated in Major Anti-State Protests February 28, 2023 – Five months into Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, in which girls and women were among ...

February 27, 2023

Iranian Activists Announce “Justice-Seeking” Pact in New Statement

A coalition of Iranian human and civil rights defenders, including prominent activists Shirin Ebadi, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Narges Mohammadi, and Atena, ...

February 22, 2023

Iran: Scores Blinded as Security Forces Aim Guns at Protesters’ Eyes

Protesters: “We Aren’t Afraid of the Darkness” In their violent drive to crush the anti-state protests that have roiled Iran over the last five months, Islamic Republic security forces have shot scores of young protesters directly in the eyes, ...

February 21, 2023

Iran Sentences German Citizen to Death to Intimidate Iranian Diaspora, German Government

Jamshid Sharmahd Was Abducted by Islamic Republic Agents, Tortured and Denied Due Process February 21, 2023 – The death ...

February 20, 2023

Joint Letter by 39 NGOs Calls on EU Countries to Summon Iranian Ambassadors in Unison on International Women’s Day

February 20, 2023 — A joint letter by 39 women's and Iranian human rights organizations calls on EU countries to summon their ambassadors ...

February 16, 2023

Sign the Petition for Women’s Rights in Iran on International Women’s Day

A new petition launched by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) calls on European Union (EU) countries to support the women and girls of Iran, who are facing severe and violent repression, by summoning Iranian ambassadors in unison on International Women’s Day ...

February 14, 2023

Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Husband Ordered to Report to Prison

Blatant Attempt to Silence Sotoudeh for Outspoken Support for Protesters February 14, 2023 – The human rights activist Reza Khandan, who is the husband of the prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, has been summoned ...

February 10, 2023

Iran Protests: More Doctors Treating Protesters Killed, Tortured and Detained

Global Medical Community Must Speak Out Against Severe Violation of International Law February 10, 2023 — An increasing number of doctors and medical workers continue to be arrested, detained, tortured and killed by Islamic Republic forces for treating wounded protesters, in ...

February 8, 2023

Analysis: Khamenei’s “Pardon” Is a Public Relations Stunt That Cedes No Ground to the Protesters

Previous Pardons Have Not Been Followed by Actual Prisoner Releases Detained Protesters Assumed Guilty, Must “Apologize” First February 8, 2023 - The announced pardons ...

February 7, 2023

New Briefing: Failure to Increase International Costs on Islamic Republic Will Green-Light Further Atrocities

Recommendations Lay Out Tangible Actions Governments Can Take to Address Violent Repression February 7, 2023 – More than four months into the Islamic ...

February 7, 2023