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June 30, 2020

Designer Amir Taghi Donates Net Proceeds from Mask Sales to Center for Human Rights in Iran

This July, Support CHRI by Purchasing Masks from Amir Taghi's Fashion Line June 30, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...

June 28, 2020

UN Must End “Sterile Exchanges” and Investigate Iran’s Lethal Violence against Protesters, Says Father of Slain Demonstrator

Letter Reveals New Details: 144 Bodies Secretly Held in Karaj Medical Examiner’s Office Alone June 29, 2020 — In an impassioned plea to top UN ...

June 25, 2020

Kurdish Prisoner, 27, Secretly Executed Despite Judge Agreeing He Was Innocent

Death Sentence Was Result Pressure from Revolutionary Guards The family of Hedayatollah (Hedayat) Abdollahpour, a 27-year-old Kurdish-Iranian ...

June 25, 2020

Sepideh Qoliyan Refuses to Beg for Pardon, Goes Back to Prison

She Must Serve Five-year Sentence for Reporting on Peaceful Labor Rally Freelance reporter Sepideh Qoliyan, issued a five-year sentence for reporting on ...

June 23, 2020

No Lawyers, No Justice: Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran for Defending Human Rights

At Least Nine Defense Attorneys Sentenced to Prison Since 2018 June 23, 2020 – Two years after the prominent human rights attorney ...

June 23, 2020

List of Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran for Defending Human Rights (Updated)

At least five defense lawyers are currently imprisoned in Iran for supporting human rights ...

June 18, 2020

World Refugee Day: Watch Nazanin Boniadi’s New DocuFilm “Stateless”

June 18, 2020 -- Last summer, the actress and human rights activist Nazanin Boniadi visited the Northern french cities ...

June 10, 2020

Father of Female Political Prisoner Worries She Has COVID-19 Without Access to Treatment

Fears that the ethnic Kurdish Iranian political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian (also spelled Zeynab) could have contracted COVID-19 in Tehran Province’s Gharchak ...

June 5, 2020

Mother of Jailed Anti-Compulsory Hijab Activist Calls for Legal Reform

*Update: On November 9, 2020, Branch 28 of the Supreme Court rejected a petition by Kord-Afshari’s lawyer, Hosein Taj, to review the 24-year prison sentence ...

June 3, 2020

Get Up, Stand Up: Protest and the Struggle for Justice

The murder of George Floyd was not just the killing of one man, it was an assault on justice and the rule ...

May 26, 2020

“They Aimed at My Son’s Head”: Report Reveals Carnage in Crushed Iran Protests

May 27, 2020 — A new report released today by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) documents the extraordinary state ...

May 18, 2020

French Academic Fariba Adelkhah Sentenced to Six Years Imprisonment in Iran

Nearly one year after she was detained in Tehran, Iranian-born French anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah was sentenced to a total ...

May 12, 2020

Persian Translation: UN Guidance on Protecting People with Disabilities from COVID-19

May 12, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) today published an unofficial Persian translation of the UN’s ...

May 11, 2020

Mourning the Passing of Ali Ajami

We at the Center for Human Rights in Iran mourn the death of our former colleague Ali Ajami, and express our ...

May 11, 2020

Human Rights Lawyer Sentenced to Prison Without Access to Counsel

Four Defense Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran in Less Than Two Years Human rights attorney Payam Derafshan was denied access to counsel while ...

May 7, 2020

Australian Academic Who Attempted Suicide Should be Freed from Unlawful Confinement in Iran

Scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert Kept in Bathroom-Like Temporary Holding Cell Since 2018 May 7, 2020 – A British-Australian academic held in isolation in Iran ...

April 30, 2020

Jailed Activist’s Son Threatened with Imprisonment to Silence Dissent

Three Relatives of Iranian Dissidents Arbitrarily Prosecuted in One Month Amid a renewed crackdown on peaceful criticism of Iranian state policies, the ...

April 28, 2020

Novelist Brother of “Iran’s Bob Dylan” Loses Appeal Against Politically Motivated Prison Sentence

Iranian Judiciary Contiguously Targeting Dissidents’ Family Members Iran’s Appeals Court upheld a one-year prison sentence against novelist Hamid Namjoo for the ...

April 24, 2020

Masih Alinejad: My Brother is Facing Prison Time for Being Related to Me

The brother of activist Masih Alinejad is being prosecuted in Tehran to “pressure” her to end her campaign against the compulsory hijab, she ...

April 23, 2020

COVID-19 Poses Extreme Danger to Arbitrarily Jailed Conservationists, Dual Nationals

Infected Wildlife Conservationist Sam Rajabi Refused Hospitalization, Cellmates Untested American Citizen Siamak Namazi Held in Same “Cell and Bunk Bed Row” as ...

April 17, 2020

UN Urges Iran to “Immediately Release” Political Prisoners and Dual, Foreign Nationals

April 17, 2020 - UN human rights experts today called on Iran to expand its temporary release of thousands of detainees to include prisoners ...

April 16, 2020

Detained Teen Instagram Star With COVID-19 on Ventilator After Judge Refused to Release Her

Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, Who Could Authorize Her Release, Has Been Unreachable Detained teenage Instagram celebrity Fatemeh Khishvand is currently on a ventilator at ...

April 15, 2020

Doctors Punished for Contradicting Iran’s Official Line on COVID-19

Physicians in Iran including university officials have been reprimanded including by way of prosecution for publicizing information about the country’s COVID-19 outbreak ...

April 8, 2020

Political Prisoner with COVID-19 Symptoms Denied Treatment, Transferred to Solitary Confinement

Peaceful prisoner of conscience Mohammad Hossein Sepehri, who was imprisoned in the Iranian city of Mashhad after signing an open letter calling on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to resign, was denied hospital treatment and ...

April 8, 2020