Internet Shutdown, Heavy Security Presence Signal Lethal State Repression May 9, 2022 – Government-enforced internet outages and the increased presence of state security forces throughout the Iranian province of Khuzestan, where street protests erupted on May 6, have raised ...
May 4, 2022 – The Iranian government’s threat to execute Swedish scientist Ahmadreza Djalali later this month is aimed at thwarting the ...
Iranian security forces arrested at least 28 teachers in the four days leading up to international workers’ day, between April 28 and May 1, ...
When Atena Daemi was growing up in Iran and attending school in a religious-conservative neighborhood in south Tehran, she noticed the many ways in which women were treated differently than men. Girls had to cover almost every ...
The 15 undersigned organizations, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), today issued a joint statement calling on the international community to urge the Iranian authorities to immediately cease their reprisals against the Iran Atrocities (Aban) Tribunal’s witnesses and their families, and to ...
The government of President Ebrahim Raisi should end the state’s campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of victims of state violence, including those who died during street protests ...
Longtime human rights defender and former prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi is peacefully refusing to report to prison in Tehran to serve an eight-year sentence that was issued against her after a five-minute trial ...
Defense attorney Amirsalar Davoudi was imprisoned in Iran for running a social media channel that ...
As we approach Nowruz and all its promise of a new beginning, the renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat brings a message of hope for Iran, and asks ...
Complaint Alleges Gross Negligence in Government’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic Lawyers Who Filed the Complaint are Facing Prison Time Two lawyers in ...
Fears Mount for Young Activist Who is Being Denied Crucial Medical Treatment March 10, 2022 – Two months after two political ...
Despite Abuses and Discrimination, Women Fight for Justice, Equality, and Rights for All March 7, 2022 – On the eve of International ...
Continued Refusal to Provide Proper Medical Care Risks More Prisoner Deaths March 3, 2022 - The continued denial of proper medical ...
Lawyer Unlawfully Imprisoned for His Defense of Basic Civil and Political Liberties March 3, 2022 – The lawyer Mohammad Najafi, who has ...
UN human rights experts have urged the Iranian government to abandon a proposed bill that would drastically increase the authorities’ ability to censor and surveil activity on the internet. "This bill represents a worrying step ...
Authorities’ Efforts to Crush Dissent Will Also Crush Livelihoods February 24, 2022 - A proposed bill that would drastically increase the ...
President Raisi Should Remain Sanctioned for His Crimes Against Humanity February 18, 2022 - In a joint statement released today, 10* human ...
Amid an intensifying campaign of political repression in Iran, state authorities have been summoning, detaining, and imprisoning peaceful labor rights ...
Honor Killings Will Continue as Long as Iran’s Laws Protects Killers Widespread Practice of Child Marriage Means More Young Girls Will Be ...
Professors “Unjustly Dismissed” from Iranian Institutions for “Political Reasons” Universities Not Escaping Intensifying Repression in Islamic Republic In yet another reflection of intensifying ...
Political Dissident Jamshid Sharmahd Is Unable to Defend Himself in Iranian Judicial System World Must Speak Out against Iran’s Abductions and Attacks ...
High-Level Intelligence Official: “Social Discontent Has Increased About 300 Percent” A top-secret Iranian state document leaked to RFE/RL’s Radio Farda ...
Sattar Rahmani, a former teacher and political prisoner in Iran, is an expert on ...
EU Calls for Rights Defender’s Release In a letter from Iran’s notoriously harsh Gharchak Prison, translated into English below by the Center for ...
IRGC Commanders Appointed as Governor-Generals to 10 of Iran’s 31 Provinces “People’s tolerance level has decreased in recent years, given the ...
