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

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

September 20, 2022

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 and demanded justice. “What makes me sad is that the authorities are spreading ...

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

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

September 14, 2022

A recent trip by a UN special rapporteur to Iran could have been a historic moment—had she responded to an open letter by human rights activists to meet. Instead, Alena Douhan, the UN’s special rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures, ignored ...

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

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

September 13, 2022

Women's rights activist Mansoureh Shojaee is an author and researcher based in the Netherlands. In 1980, on International Women’s Day, 22-year-old university student Mansoureh Shojaee joined one of Iran’s largest street protests against the compulsory hijab. This was one year ...

Prioritizing Human Rights in Iran: A New U.S. Foreign Policy Approach

Prioritizing Human Rights in Iran: A New U.S. Foreign Policy Approach

August 9, 2022

The Center for Human Rights in Iran’s (CHRI) new briefing, Human Rights in Iran and U.S. National Security Interests: A Path Forward for U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the Islamic Republic, lays out a U.S. foreign policy approach to Iran that affords human rights a central role, equal in importance to and pursued on par with ...

Interview: Atena Daemi was Jailed in Iran for Advocating Women’s Rights. Now She’s Free and Refusing to be Silent

Interview: Atena Daemi was Jailed in Iran for Advocating Women’s Rights. Now She’s Free and Refusing to be Silent

April 27, 2022

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 inch of their bodies and severly restrict their activities, while men could ...

Interview: Rights Lawyer Turned Political Prisoner Condemns “Shameful” Acts Against Lawyers in Iran

Interview: Rights Lawyer Turned Political Prisoner Condemns “Shameful” Acts Against Lawyers in Iran

March 22, 2022

Defense attorney Amirsalar Davoudi was imprisoned in Iran for running a social media channel that provided information to lawyers. *Editor's Note: Amirsalar Davoudi was forced to return to Evin Prison in Tehran on June 26, 2022, to serve a 10-year sentence. Human ...

Interview: Suppressing Teachers’ Protests Would be a “Great Risk” for Iran’s Government

Interview: Suppressing Teachers’ Protests Would be a “Great Risk” for Iran’s Government

February 3, 2022

Sattar Rahmani, a former teacher and political prisoner in Iran, is an expert on the country's burgeoning teachers' rights movement. A grassroots teachers’ rights movement is gaining steam in Iran, where large street protests by teachers are increasingly sprouting ...

Interview: Mina Khani on the “Serious Ramifications” for Women in Iran’s New Population Growth Law

Interview: Mina Khani on the “Serious Ramifications” for Women in Iran’s New Population Growth Law

January 20, 2022

Mina Khani is an author and active member of Iran's women's and civil rights movements. A new law ratified by Iran’s Parliament that's officially aimed at ...

Families of Victims in Downed Passenger Plane Refuse Iranian Compensation: “No Justice Without the Truth”

Families of Victims in Downed Passenger Plane Refuse Iranian Compensation: “No Justice Without the Truth”

January 10, 2022

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” ...

Key Witness in Nouri’s Crimes Against Humanity Trial: Conviction Could Lead to Prosecution of President Raisi

Key Witness in Nouri’s Crimes Against Humanity Trial: Conviction Could Lead to Prosecution of President Raisi

August 11, 2021

The historic trial against Nouri, which will hear testimonies from dozens of witnesses in 72 sessions, will be the first time that one of the worst crimes committed in the Islamic Republic of Iran will be thoroughly examined and exposed in a court of law ...

Book Review: Nasser Mohajer, Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988

Book Review: Nasser Mohajer, Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988

October 27, 2020

Book Review Nasser Mohajer, Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988 Oneworld  Publications, 2020 Mansour Farhang In 1988, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a secret fatwa (a religious edict) ordering judicial authorities to execute between 4,500 and ...

A Conversation with the Director and Producers of the New Documentary, “Nasrin”

A Conversation with the Director and Producers of the New Documentary, “Nasrin”

September 30, 2020

Nasrin, a new documentary scheduled for its world premiere on October 1, 2020, tells the important and fascinating story of Nasrin Sotoudeh, the imprisoned human rights lawyer who has endured years behind bars for defending basic civil and political rights in Iran. The Center for ...

Interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour: Iranian Art in the Shadow of a Crackdown

Interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour: Iranian Art in the Shadow of a Crackdown

December 9, 2019

Violent state repression of protests in Iran is not unique, yet the lethal means government forces used to repress recent protests that broke out across dozens of cities reached new heights this year, resulting in at least 208 deaths between November 15, 2019, and December 2, according to reporting by Amnesty International. "What ...

Maz Jobrani: “We Need to Go Beyond Just Standing Up for People That Look Like Us”

Maz Jobrani: “We Need to Go Beyond Just Standing Up for People That Look Like Us”

July 8, 2019

After gunmen killed 12 staff members of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo for the paper's content in 2015, Iranian-American comedian Maz Jobrani joined colleagues in a video produced by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) to express solidarity with the victims and defend ...

Abdolreza Kahani: “We are Born Into Censorship”

Abdolreza Kahani: “We are Born Into Censorship”

June 20, 2019

In Iran, the Ministry of Guidance and Islamic Culture imposes a strict process of review and approval for all screenplays before films can be legally produced in the country. Films that are produced also face censorship, and directors are often ordered to remove certain scenes before the authorities ...

Nazanin Boniadi: “Silence is Not an Option”

Nazanin Boniadi: “Silence is Not an Option”

June 6, 2019

As a girl visiting her birth country of Iran, British actress Nazanin Boniadi got a taste of the severely restricted rights women there live with on a daily basis. That experience inspired her to get educated about women’s and human rights issues in the country, and ...

Khosrow Semnani: Iran Funds Repression “Through Corruption by Design”

Khosrow Semnani: Iran Funds Repression “Through Corruption by Design”

May 28, 2019

The Iranian-American engineer, businessman, and philanthropist Khosrow Semnani made a name in foreign policy circles in both Washington and Tehran in 2013 after he published a comprehensive report about the environmental and human costs of a military strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. Five years later he has published ...

Interview With Literary Figure Alireza Behnam on Censorship

Interview With Literary Figure Alireza Behnam on Censorship

May 13, 2019

“Authors have learned that they cannot write about things that are against the country’s official religion, or against national security, or anything that promotes ‘moral corruption’ and ‘indecency.’” State censorship of the publishing industry in Iran is intensifying and increasingly arbitrary, causing book publishers in Iran ...

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