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October 24, 2022

Iran Protests: State Trying to Crush Dissent Through More Killings, Imprisonment

Prominent Teachers, Labor Leaders Slapped with Jail Time as 500+ Face Sham Charges October 24, 2022 – The sentencing of prominent teachers and labor ...

October 21, 2022

Briefing: Addressing State Atrocities Against Protesters in Iran

Recommendations for the U.S. Government and the International Community View a PDF version of this briefing here. View this briefing's press release ...

October 19, 2022

Hero Climber Elnaz Rekabi Deserves Support of Climbing Organizations, International Community

International Federation of Sport Climbing Should Suspend Islamic Republic’s Membership Serious Concerns for Rekabi, Under Extreme Pressure by State ...

October 18, 2022

New Briefing: International Action Urgently Needed to Stop Carnage in Iran

U.S., World Must Collectively Address State Atrocities Against Peaceful Protesters in Iran Policy Paper Lays out Specific Actions Biden and Other World Leaders ...

October 17, 2022

Joint Statement: 43 Rights Groups Call for Urgent Action on Iran at UN Human Rights Council

Forty-three human rights groups, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran ...

October 15, 2022

Breaking: Iran’s Enflamed Evin Prison Provokes Extreme Concerns

Defenseless Prisoners Barricaded Inside Embattled Prison Editor's update on Oct. 15, 7:01pm EST: A source in Tehran told CHRI that people were protesting near Evin Prison ...

October 13, 2022

Iran Protests: Arrests of School Children Prompt Grave Fears of More Child Killings

Officials Paint Children as Enemies of the State, Claim They’re “Reforming” Kids At Least 28 Children Killed Since September 16, Reports ...

October 12, 2022

Oil Workers Condemn Arbitrary Arrests, Pledge to Continue Protests

“We will Not Remain Silent” A union representing oil workers in Iran has published a statement condemning Iranian authorities for arbitrarily arresting their colleagues who have joined the nationwide, anti-state protests that have been ongoing throughout the country since ...

October 3, 2022

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

Students Trapped, Beaten, Tear Gassed, Taken to Unknown Locations  Fears of Worsening Violence as Protests Spread to Over 100 ...

September 30, 2022

At least 25 Reporters and Journalists Among Hundreds Detained Amid Iran Protests

Minimum Total of At Least 37 Members of the Press Currently Detained Nationwide September 30, 2022 – At least 25 reporters and journalists ...

September 26, 2022

World Leaders Must Act Now to Avoid Bloodbath in Iran

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 threat of mass ...

September 26, 2022

Iran Protests: Lawyers Call for Fact-Finding Commission, Referendum

A group of prominent Iranian lawyers has called for international action amid nationwide protests that erupted in Iran on September 16, 2022, ...

September 26, 2022

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

Now Companies Must Make Tech Products Available and U.S. Government Must Encourage Them September 26, 2022—Today, the Public Affairs Alliance of ...

September 21, 2022

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

World Leaders Must Call on Iranian Officials to Immediately Cease Use of Lethal Force, Allow Peaceful Protest September 21, 2022 – On the ...

September 20, 2022

Mahsa Amini’s Father: “Everything They Have Said and Shown is Lies”

In an interview with Rouydad24 (“Event24”), a semi-independent reformist news site in Iran, the father of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in Iranian state custody, strongly contradicted the authorities’ narrative about his daughter’s death ...

September 19, 2022

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

Mahsa Amini’s Death in State Custody Should be Investigated as Murder World Must Condemn Violent Repression of Protests and Civil Society September ...

September 16, 2022

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

Protesters in Tehran Call for “Death to the Oppressor” September 16, 2022 – The death of Mahsa Amini, 22, after being ...

September 14, 2022

Interview: Mansour Farhang on How a UN Special Rapporteur Was “Deceived on Human Rights” in Iran

A recent trip by a UN special rapporteur to Iran could have been a historic moment—had she responded to an ...

September 13, 2022

Interview: Mansoureh Shojaee on Disillusionment and Fortitude in the Struggle for Women’s Rights

Women's rights activist Mansoureh Shojaee is an author and researcher based in the Netherlands. In 1980, ...

September 6, 2022

Families Appeal to EU’s Borrell to Prioritize Release of Hostages from Iran

As negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program continue to drag, the families of individuals unjustly detained in the Islamic Republic have appealed to EU foreign ...

August 29, 2022

Prejudiced Courts Aiding Land Grabs of Baha’i Properties in Iran

Bigoted statements against Baha'is (in this photo calling them "infidels") ...

August 24, 2022

Statements by Iranian Officials Who’ve Criticized the State’s Forced Hijab Policy

As the government of President Ebrahim Raisi, a devoted soldier of unelected “supreme leader” Ali Khamenei, works to implement stricter ...

August 22, 2022

UN Experts Alarmed by Escalating Persecution of Baha’i Faith in Iran

The UN has condemned the Iranian government's renewed campaign of persecution against the Baha'i faith minority. Bahai's, including former prisoners of ...

August 15, 2022

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

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 Islamic Republic’s longstanding ...

August 12, 2022

More Prisoner Deaths Feared in Iran’s COVID-Infested Jails

Authorities Deny Prisoners Medical Treatment and Safety Measures Despite a renewed wave of COVID-19 infections in Iranian prisons, a growing number of infected political prisoners have been denied proper treatment, raising fears of more unnecessary deaths of prisoners ...

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