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Iran Protests: Human Rights Lawyers Arrested, Teargassed

Iran Protests: Human Rights Lawyers Arrested, Teargassed

October 12, 2022

Unmarked Vans Rounded Up Dozens of Peaceful Protesters Outside Iranian Bar Association October 12, 2022 – At least three lawyers were among dozens of individuals who were arrested today outside the ...

Iran Protests: Sanandaj Becomes Latest Killing Zone Amid Worsening State Violence

Iran Protests: Sanandaj Becomes Latest Killing Zone Amid Worsening State Violence

October 10, 2022

Oil Workers Wage Strikes in Solidarity with Nationwide Anti-State Demonstrations October 10, 2022 – The government in Iran must immediately halt its use of lethal force against civilian protesters, including in ...

Iran Protests: Scores of Civil Society Members Detained “Preventatively”

Iran Protests: Scores of Civil Society Members Detained “Preventatively”

October 6, 2022

 Grave Concerns for Torture, Killings of Political Prisoners Amid Mass Arrests  October 6, 2022 – Less than three weeks after protests erupted across Iran, at least 1,200 people have been arrested, including at ...

Students Violently Attacked, Arrested by Security Forces as Protests in Iran Spread

Students Violently Attacked, Arrested by Security Forces as Protests in Iran Spread

October 3, 2022

Students Trapped, Beaten, Tear Gassed, Taken to Unknown Locations  Fears of Worsening Violence as Protests Spread to Over 100 Universities October 3, 2022—On Sunday night, October 2, 2022, after 15 ...

World Leaders Must Act Now to Avoid Bloodbath in Iran

World Leaders Must Act Now to Avoid Bloodbath in Iran

September 26, 2022

Threat of Mass Deaths Grows as Government Seeks to Squash Protests September 26, 2022—With the government of Iran signaling it intends to silence the protests across Iran that are now well into their second week, the ...

Joint Statement: U.S. Treasury’s New General License D2 Advances Internet Freedom in Iran

Joint Statement: U.S. Treasury’s New General License D2 Advances Internet Freedom in Iran

September 26, 2022

Now Companies Must Make Tech Products Available and U.S. Government Must Encourage Them September 26, 2022—Today, the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) welcomed ...

Iran Protests: Grave Concerns for Extreme State Violence Amid Rising Death Toll

Iran Protests: Grave Concerns for Extreme State Violence Amid Rising Death Toll

September 21, 2022

World Leaders Must Call on Iranian Officials to Immediately Cease Use of Lethal Force, Allow Peaceful Protest September 21, 2022 – On the sixth day of protests in Iran that have followed the ...

Iran’s Raisi to Freely Address UNGA While Crushing Rights and Freedoms at Home

Iran’s Raisi to Freely Address UNGA While Crushing Rights and Freedoms at Home

September 19, 2022

Mahsa Amini’s Death in State Custody Should be Investigated as Murder World Must Condemn Violent Repression of Protests and Civil Society September 19, 2022 – President Ebrahim Raisi will use his platform ...

Mahsa Amini is Another Victim of the Islamic Republic’s War on Women

Mahsa Amini is Another Victim of the Islamic Republic’s War on Women

September 16, 2022

Protesters in Tehran Call for “Death to the Oppressor” September 16, 2022 – The death of Mahsa Amini, 22, after being declared medically braindead following her arrest by so-called morality police ...

Political Prisoner Behnam Mousivand’s Life is in Danger

Political Prisoner Behnam Mousivand’s Life is in Danger

September 7, 2022

Authorities in Iran Intentionally Deny Critical Medical Attention to Political Prisoners September 7, 2022 – A political prisoner’s precarious health situation is raising fears of another preventable death in Iranian ...

UN, Governments Worldwide Must Speak Out for LGBTQ Activists Sentenced to Death in Iran

UN, Governments Worldwide Must Speak Out for LGBTQ Activists Sentenced to Death in Iran

September 6, 2022

The international community should loudly and publicly condemn the blatantly unlawful death sentences issued without due process against two LGBTQ activists in West Azerbaijan Province, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a statement today ...

Sepideh Rashnoo: Latest Target of Raisi Government’s Campaign of Repression

Sepideh Rashnoo: Latest Target of Raisi Government’s Campaign of Repression

August 23, 2022

*Editor's Note: Sepideh Rashnoo was released on bail on August 30, 2022, while she awaits her trial. August 23, 2022 – Charges filed against a woman in Iran, Sepideh Rashnoo, after she was accosted by ...

Salman Rushdie is Yet Another Victim of Iran’s Extraterritorial Censorship

Salman Rushdie is Yet Another Victim of Iran’s Extraterritorial Censorship

August 15, 2022

Government of Iran Has Long Targeted its Critics Abroad for Assassination August 15, 2022 – The heinous attack in New York on the author Salman Rushdie, in which a knifeman inflicted life-threatening injuries, stems from the ...

Human Rights Can and Should be Front and Center in U.S. Foreign Policy on Iran

Human Rights Can and Should be Front and Center in U.S. Foreign Policy on Iran

August 9, 2022

Prioritizing human rights represents the most effective means for the U.S. to influence Iranian state behavior and address the Islamic Republic’s destabilizing activities, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a new Q&A, “Prioritizing
Human Rights in Iran:
A ...

UN Should Condemn Renewed Crackdown on Persecuted Baha’i Faith in Iran

UN Should Condemn Renewed Crackdown on Persecuted Baha’i Faith in Iran

August 5, 2022

August 5, 2022 – Increasing arbitrary arrests of members of the persecuted Baha’i faith in Iran, and an intensifying government-sponsored campaign of destruction and confiscation of their properties should be internationally condemned, said the Center ...

Nouri Conviction by Swedish Court a Triumph for Iran’s “Seeking-Justice” Movement

Nouri Conviction by Swedish Court a Triumph for Iran’s “Seeking-Justice” Movement

July 14, 2022

Conviction Opens Door for More Trials Against Officials Accused of Atrocities July 14, 2022 -- After 92 sessions of a trial that lasted almost a year, a court in Stockholm, Sweden ...

Heightened Reign of Terror in Iran Under New Intelligence Chief

Heightened Reign of Terror in Iran Under New Intelligence Chief

July 11, 2022

Less than a month after the intelligence chief of the Iranian military’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was replaced, a crackdown on dissent is being ramped up in the country ...

400+ Iranian Human Rights Leaders Urge Belgium to Drop Prisoner Swap Treaty with Iran

400+ Iranian Human Rights Leaders Urge Belgium to Drop Prisoner Swap Treaty with Iran

July 5, 2022

Treaty Encourages Hostage-Taking, Would Return Convicted Terrorist to Iran July 5, 2022 – More than 400 leading Iranian human rights activists, dissidents and family members of victims of Iranian state repression ...

EU Should Loudly Condemn Iran’s Baseless Jailing of French Tourist Benjamin Brière

EU Should Loudly Condemn Iran’s Baseless Jailing of French Tourist Benjamin Brière

June 28, 2022

Iranian Court Refers to France as an “Enemy Government” June 28, 2022 – Countries negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program, including France, the U.K., and the U.S., as well as European Union ...

Borrell, EU Must Speak Out Against Growing Human Rights Crisis in Iran

Borrell, EU Must Speak Out Against Growing Human Rights Crisis in Iran

June 27, 2022

Same Efforts Applied to Nuclear Deal Can and Should Be Given to Human Rights President Biden Has Also Remained Silent on State’s Violent Crackdown in Iran June 27, 2022 - European Union foreign policy ...

In Cahoots with the State, Iranian Court Sentences Lawyers, Activists Trying to Sue Officials to Prison

In Cahoots with the State, Iranian Court Sentences Lawyers, Activists Trying to Sue Officials to Prison

June 22, 2022

Supreme Leader’s COVID Vaccine Ban Resulted in Thousands of Unnecessary Deaths June 22, 2022 – For trying to sue Iranian leaders for their grossly negligent response to the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

International Community Should Call on Iran to End Punitive Amputations

International Community Should Call on Iran to End Punitive Amputations

June 15, 2022

Eight Prisoners Could Soon See Their Fingers Cut Off June 15, 2022 – In violation of its international obligations against torture, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s judicial system has ...

Policy Briefing: Human Rights in Iran and U.S. National Security Interests

Policy Briefing: Human Rights in Iran and U.S. National Security Interests

June 14, 2022

Repression of Civil Society Harms U.S. Security Interests June 14, 2022— President Biden’s silence so far on the killings and mass arrests of protesters in Iran by state security forces over ...

Rights Groups Call on Meta to Fix Persian Content Moderation for Instagram

Rights Groups Call on Meta to Fix Persian Content Moderation for Instagram

June 9, 2022

June 9, 2022 — In a joint statement released today, human rights organizations ARTICLE 19, Access Now, and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) called on Meta to urgently revise ...

Iran Should Be Ejected from ILO’s Governing Board Says Iran’s National Teacher Organization

Iran Should Be Ejected from ILO’s Governing Board Says Iran’s National Teacher Organization

June 3, 2022

Open Letter Condemns Iran’s “Brutal Repression” of Trade Unions and Labor Activists June 2, 2022—In an open letter to the delegates at the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 110th Session of the International Labour ...

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  • Press Releases

    • Students Arrested and Banished, Professors Fired in Latest State Crackdown in Iran
      June 1, 2023
    • World Leaders Urged to Radically Increase Pressure on Iran to Cease Executions
      May 24, 2023
    • More Executions of Protesters in Iran Imminent after Sham Trials
      May 17, 2023
    • UNHRC: Retract Appointment of Iranian Ambassador to Chair Social Forum
      May 11, 2023
    • Three Hangings in Three Days: The Islamic Republic Continues Its Killing Spree
      May 8, 2023
    • Activists Detained, Workers Threatened as Oil Industry Workers Strike in Iran
      May 4, 2023
    • Iran: School Girls Continue to Face Chemical Attacks, Officials Refuse to Provide Security
      April 24, 2023
    • Imprisoned Dissident Rapper Toomaj Salehi, Voice of Iran’s Protests, Faces Possible Execution
      April 6, 2023
    • Another Abducted Dissident Sentenced to Death in Iran
      March 13, 2023
    • CHRI Board Member Mehrangiz Kar Receives Women’s Award for Justice and Advocacy from NYC Bar Association
      March 9, 2023
    • 20 Prominent Iranian Lawyers Call on UN to Investigate School Girl Poisonings
      March 6, 2023
    • One Girl Dead, 400 Children Poisoned Amid Attacks on Schools in Iran
      February 28, 2023
    • Iran Sentences German Citizen to Death to Intimidate Iranian Diaspora, German Government
      February 21, 2023
    • Joint Letter by 39 NGOs Calls on EU Countries to Summon Iranian Ambassadors in Unison on International Women’s Day
      February 20, 2023
    • Sign the Petition for Women’s Rights in Iran on International Women’s Day
      February 16, 2023
    • Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Husband Ordered to Report to Prison
      February 14, 2023
    • Iran Protests: More Doctors Treating Protesters Killed, Tortured and Detained
      February 10, 2023
    • Analysis: Khamenei’s “Pardon” Is a Public Relations Stunt That Cedes No Ground to the Protesters
      February 8, 2023
    • New Briefing: Failure to Increase International Costs on Islamic Republic Will Green-Light Further Atrocities
      February 7, 2023
    • 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
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