Situation of Political Prisoners Worsens as Iranian Government’s Assault on Peaceful Dissent Intensifies Activists, Lawyers, Dissidents being Kept Behind Bars with Continuous New Convictions ...
Reports of security agents at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport singling out travelers returning from European destinations to collect “financial and personal” information, ...
Mina Khani is ...
Session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Another juvenile offender, Hossein Shahbazi, is in imminent danger of being executed in Iran after being sentenced to death as a ...
The life of veteran journalist and political activist Keyvan Samimi is in danger as he continues to be unlawfully kept behind bars in Tehran’s Evin Prison despite state officials’ recommendations that he be released to receive treatment for serious health problems ...
Iranian President Ebrahim “Raisi has called for payment of compensation because most of the families have turned it down,” Soleimani told CHRI. “For them, the most important issue is discovering the truth and implementing justice” ...
Abtin, Jailed for Dissent, is Second Political Prisoner to Die in Iran in First Week of 2022 January 8, 2022 – ...
Families Call for Independent UN Investigation January 6, 2022 – While commemorating the second anniversary of the killing of 176 people aboard Ukrainian ...
Baktash Abtin (left) and Adel Kianpour (right). Concerns Mount for Prisoners Under Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i COVID-19 ...
UN human rights experts today strongly condemned the execution in Iran of political prisoner Heydar (or Heidar) Ghorbani, who was ...
Dear Friend and Supporter, While families around the world come together to celebrate the holiday season, we ask that you remember the people ...
On December 16, 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted draft resolution II, “Situation of human rights in the ...
Teachers and supporters protested in the streets of more than 119 Iranian cities across Iran ...
The following joint statement, signed by 23 international human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, calls on Iranian judicial authorities to release the activist Mehdi Mahmoudian and defense attorneys Arash Keykhosravi and Mostafa ...
Abbas and Mohsen Deris, both members of Iran’s ethnic Arab minority in Khuzestan Province, were arrested during the country’s violently repressed November 2019 protests, which broke out across the country that month and which saw an estimated 100 protesters killed in Khuzestan alone ...
The Iranian security and military forces’ violent crackdown on large protests in the city of Isfahan that broke out over severe state mismanagement of water resources is more evidence of the Ebrahim Raisi government’s policy of zero tolerance of public criticism and dissent ...
Dear Friends and Supporters, The Iranian people have risked and lost their lives protesting the unjust policies of their government, given up years ...
The United Nations has strongly condemned the execution of child offender Arman Abdolali in a press release republished below. Comment by UN Human ...
The right to mourn is a human right, yet totalitarian regimes have long tried to deny this right to families who’ve lost ...
Mother of Two Facing Flogging, Prison—Two Years After Completing 5.5-Year Sentence November 17, 2021 – The prominent rights advocate Narges Mohammadi was ...
International Community Must Finally Act with One Voice to Address these Crimes Evidence of the Islamic Republic’s Top Officials Directly Involved in the ...
Two years after Iran’s massive November 2019 protests, the government has yet to respond to questions about its deadly use of force to suppress the demonstrations, which occurred in more than 200 cities, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured ...
One of the few remaining defense lawyers in Iran willing to take on human rights cases, Nasser Zarafshan is an expert ...
No Accountability for Hundreds Killed, Thousands Injured and Arrested International Community Must Demand Independent Investigation and Justice for Victims November 10, 2021 -- Two ...
Two British citizens spent the night in frigid temperatures outside the Foreign Office in London on November 2, 2021, in a bid to gain freedom for their loved ones who are unjustly jailed in Iran ...
