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Civil Rights Defender Farhad Meysami at Risk of Death in Iranian Prison

Civil Rights Defender Farhad Meysami at Risk of Death in Iranian Prison

February 2, 2023

Meysami Hunger-Striking to Demand End to Political Executions and Compulsory Hijab February 2, 2023 – The UN and international human rights organizations should urgently demand that the Iranian judiciary release political ...

Children’s Rights Advocates, Mainly Women, Targeted in Crackdown on Anti-State Protests in Iran

Children’s Rights Advocates, Mainly Women, Targeted in Crackdown on Anti-State Protests in Iran

February 1, 2023

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 ...

Iran: Families of Detained and Killed Protesters Beaten, Threatened to Stay Silent

Iran: Families of Detained and Killed Protesters Beaten, Threatened to Stay Silent

January 25, 2023

Attorneys Jailed to Prevent Them From Defending Protesters and Their Families   January 25, 2023 – Four months into the Islamic Republic’s violent suppression of anti-state protests, Iranian authorities are beating, ...

Suspicious Deaths of Released Protesters in Iran Should be Investigated by UN

Suspicious Deaths of Released Protesters in Iran Should be Investigated by UN

January 19, 2023

Credible Evidence Challenges Iranian Authorities’ Claims of “Suicides” Families Describe Visibly Tortured Bodies, Fabricated Evidence, Forced Quick Burials January 19, 2023 – The UN Fact-Finding Mission should investigate the suspicious deaths of a ...

Governments Worldwide Should Recall Ambassadors from Iran

Governments Worldwide Should Recall Ambassadors from Iran

January 12, 2023

Executions of Protesters Continuing; Forceful Action Urgently Needed  EU and At Least Eight European Countries Summon Iran’s Ambassadors January 12, 2023 – Governments around the world should recall their ambassadors from the Islamic Republic in ...

Iran Protests: At Least 44 Defense Attorneys Arrested Since September

Iran Protests: At Least 44 Defense Attorneys Arrested Since September

January 10, 2023

Crackdown Aimed at Destroying Any Chance of Fair Trials for Protesters Detainees Forced to Use Court-Appointed Lawyers January 10, 2023 – While the Islamic Republic has been gunning down and executing street protesters, ...

Two More Men Executed in Iran in Connection with Protests, Others at Imminent Risk

Two More Men Executed in Iran in Connection with Protests, Others at Imminent Risk

January 7, 2023

World Leaders Should Withdraw Ambassadors, Demand Moratorium on Executions January 7, 2023 – The hanging in Iran today of two men who were arrested in connection with street protests, Mohammad ...

Third Anniversary of Shooting Down of Ukrainian Passenger Plane, Still No Justice

Third Anniversary of Shooting Down of Ukrainian Passenger Plane, Still No Justice

January 6, 2023

Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, and UK Call for Binding Arbitration No One Held Accountable for IRGC’s Killing of 176 Passengers   January 6, 2023—Three years after the shooting down of Ukrainian Passenger Flight ...

What Can I Do to Support the Protesters and Human Rights in Iran?

What Can I Do to Support the Protesters and Human Rights in Iran?

January 5, 2023

Since anti-state protests broke out across Iran in September 2022, following the killing in state custody of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini, hundreds of peaceful protesters have been killed by state security forces and thousands ...

Iranian Athletes Killed, Tortured, Sentenced to Death for Supporting Protests (Updated)

Iranian Athletes Killed, Tortured, Sentenced to Death for Supporting Protests (Updated)

January 4, 2023

Editor's Note: This article is regularly updated with new information. January 4, 2023 – The Islamic Republic’s persecution of athletes for peacefully supporting anti-state protests that have been ongoing throughout the country since ...

Recommendations: Congress Can Play a Vital Role in Supporting the Protesters in Iran

Recommendations: Congress Can Play a Vital Role in Supporting the Protesters in Iran

December 21, 2022

December 21, 2022 – Since peaceful protests erupted across Iran in September 2022, the Islamic Republic has tried to crush them by killing hundreds of men and women, including dozens of children, ...

Iran: Death Sentences and Imprisonment Used to Crush Dissent in Film and Theatre Industries

Iran: Death Sentences and Imprisonment Used to Crush Dissent in Film and Theatre Industries

December 20, 2022

26-Year-Old Actor Sentenced to Death, More Than 100 Industry Members Imprisoned December 20, 2022 – The sentencing of theater actor Hossein Mohammadi to death in Iran after a show trial, and ...

Iran’s Courts Using Death Penalty Charges to Crush Protests

Iran’s Courts Using Death Penalty Charges to Crush Protests

December 15, 2022

At Least 11 Sentenced to Death and 24 Others Facing Charges that Could Carry Death Penalty December 15, 2022 – At least 11 men have been sentenced to death in the ...

Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women

Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women

December 14, 2022

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 Islamic Republic of Iran from the ...

Iran Protests: Children Killed and Tortured to Crush Dissent

Iran Protests: Children Killed and Tortured to Crush Dissent

December 13, 2022

Children Beaten on Streets and in State Custody, Assaulted in Schools December 13, 2022 – Children in Iran accused of supporting the country’s protest movement are being subjected to physical and ...

Lynching in Iran: Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, Publicly Hanged in State-Sponsored Murder

Lynching in Iran: Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, Publicly Hanged in State-Sponsored Murder

December 12, 2022

Young People will Continue to be Killed in Iran without International Action  December 12, 2022 – The hanging in public of Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, in Mashhad today—the second execution of a young person in Iran ...

Executions in Iran: World Must Respond with Strong Action Against State Killings of Protesters

Executions in Iran: World Must Respond with Strong Action Against State Killings of Protesters

December 8, 2022

Café Worker Mohsen Shekari, 23, Denied Due Process in Kangaroo Court   December 8, 2022 – The execution today in Iran of Mohsen Shekari, 23, after a trial by a kangaroo court that ...

Iran Protests: Detained University Students Subjected to Sexual Assault, Disappearances

Iran Protests: Detained University Students Subjected to Sexual Assault, Disappearances

December 6, 2022

At Least 574 Known Students Arrested in Less Than Three Months, Actual Number Much Higher December 6, 2022 – Iranian police and state security forces have arrested at least 574 university students, according to research by ...

Iran Protests: Juveniles Could Face Death Penalty in Kangaroo “Revolutionary” Court

Iran Protests: Juveniles Could Face Death Penalty in Kangaroo “Revolutionary” Court

November 30, 2022

Governments, UN Must Take Urgent Action to Protect Them November 30, 2022 – At least three juveniles are among 15 individuals in the Iranian city of Karaj who are facing charges that could carry ...

Iran: Key Labor Sectors Launch Major Strikes Amid Anti-State Protests

Iran: Key Labor Sectors Launch Major Strikes Amid Anti-State Protests

November 29, 2022

At Least a Dozen Labor Leaders Arrested in Effort to Crush Strikes Islamic Republic Should Be Expelled from ILO Governing Board November 29, 2022 – More than three months into anti-state protests ...

Iran Protests: Voices from Iran (Updated)

Iran Protests: Voices from Iran (Updated)

November 22, 2022

As nationwide protests continue to sweep Iran, there are very few direct voices from inside Iran reaching the international stage. An understanding of the fabric of the society and its rapidly evolving ...

Iran Protests: Massacre in Kurdish Areas Feared as Security Forces Launch Lethal Crackdown

Iran Protests: Massacre in Kurdish Areas Feared as Security Forces Launch Lethal Crackdown

November 21, 2022

Authorities Shut Down Internet to Prevent Evidence of State’s Atrocities from Reaching Outside World November 21, 2022 – With Iranian security forces launching a massive assault on protesters in Kurdish-populated cities ...

Three More Children Killed as Iranian Merchants Close Shops in Solidarity with Uprising

Three More Children Killed as Iranian Merchants Close Shops in Solidarity with Uprising

November 18, 2022

November 18, 2022 – In a strong show of support for their country’s growing protest movement, and as children continue to be among those killed by state security forces, merchants in major cities closed their ...

World Must Warn Iran Against Death Sentences for Protesters in Upcoming Mass Trials

World Must Warn Iran Against Death Sentences for Protesters in Upcoming Mass Trials

November 2, 2022

Charges Carrying Possible Death Sentence Already Being Issued November 2, 2022 – With mass public trials for protesters recently announced in Iran, and charges already beginning to be issued that could ...

Witch Hunt in Iran: Grave Concerns for Journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi

Witch Hunt in Iran: Grave Concerns for Journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi

November 1, 2022

Unable to Crush Protests, State Resorts to Smearing Female Reporters with Sham Accusations November 1, 2022 – The Iranian government’s fabricated accusations against two unlawfully detained female journalists, Niloofar Hamedi and ...

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  • Press Releases

    • Civil Rights Defender Farhad Meysami at Risk of Death in Iranian Prison
      February 2, 2023
    • Children’s Rights Advocates, Mainly Women, Targeted in Crackdown on Anti-State Protests in Iran
      February 1, 2023
    • Iran: Families of Detained and Killed Protesters Beaten, Threatened to Stay Silent
      January 25, 2023
    • Suspicious Deaths of Released Protesters in Iran Should be Investigated by UN
      January 19, 2023
    • Governments Worldwide Should Recall Ambassadors from Iran
      January 12, 2023
    • Iran Protests: At Least 44 Defense Attorneys Arrested Since September
      January 10, 2023
    • Two More Men Executed in Iran in Connection with Protests, Others at Imminent Risk
      January 7, 2023
    • Third Anniversary of Shooting Down of Ukrainian Passenger Plane, Still No Justice
      January 6, 2023
    • What Can I Do to Support the Protesters and Human Rights in Iran?
      January 5, 2023
    • Iranian Athletes Killed, Tortured, Sentenced to Death for Supporting Protests (Updated)
      January 4, 2023
    • Recommendations: Congress Can Play a Vital Role in Supporting the Protesters in Iran
      December 21, 2022
    • Iran: Death Sentences and Imprisonment Used to Crush Dissent in Film and Theatre Industries
      December 20, 2022
    • Iran’s Courts Using Death Penalty Charges to Crush Protests
      December 15, 2022
    • Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women
      December 14, 2022
    • Iran Protests: Children Killed and Tortured to Crush Dissent
      December 13, 2022
    • Lynching in Iran: Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, Publicly Hanged in State-Sponsored Murder
      December 12, 2022
    • Executions in Iran: World Must Respond with Strong Action Against State Killings of Protesters
      December 8, 2022
    • Iran Protests: Detained University Students Subjected to Sexual Assault, Disappearances
      December 6, 2022
    • Iran Protests: Juveniles Could Face Death Penalty in Kangaroo “Revolutionary” Court
      November 30, 2022
    • Iran: Key Labor Sectors Launch Major Strikes Amid Anti-State Protests
      November 29, 2022
    • Iran Protests: Voices from Iran (Updated)
      November 22, 2022
    • Iran Protests: Massacre in Kurdish Areas Feared as Security Forces Launch Lethal Crackdown
      November 21, 2022
    • Three More Children Killed as Iranian Merchants Close Shops in Solidarity with Uprising
      November 18, 2022
    • World Must Warn Iran Against Death Sentences for Protesters in Upcoming Mass Trials
      November 2, 2022
    • Witch Hunt in Iran: Grave Concerns for Journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi
      November 1, 2022
    • Iran Protests: Doctors Treating Wounded Protesters Face Deadly State Violence
      October 31, 2022
    • Iran Protests: State Trying to Crush Dissent Through More Killings, Imprisonment
      October 24, 2022
    • Hero Climber Elnaz Rekabi Deserves Support of Climbing Organizations, International Community
      October 19, 2022
    • New Briefing: International Action Urgently Needed to Stop Carnage in Iran
      October 18, 2022
    • Breaking: Iran’s Enflamed Evin Prison Provokes Extreme Concerns
      October 15, 2022
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