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Iran Launches Sweeping Crackdown: Hundreds Detained, Executions Underway

Iran Launches Sweeping Crackdown: Hundreds Detained, Executions Underway

June 26, 2025

U.S. Must Confront Iran Over Human Rights Abuses in Upcoming Talks June 26, ...

Lives of Prisoners in Iran in Immediate Danger

Lives of Prisoners in Iran in Immediate Danger

June 23, 2025

Global Leaders Must Demand Emergency Protections and Immediate Release of Political Prisoners Hundreds Being ...

Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran at Grave Risk Amid War

Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran at Grave Risk Amid War

June 19, 2025

CHRI Warns Iran May Use Wartime Chaos to Execute Political Prisoners June 19, 2025 ...

Iranian Political Prisoner in Evin Prison Urges Action to Protect Prisoners As War Escalates

Iranian Political Prisoner in Evin Prison Urges Action to Protect Prisoners As War Escalates

June 18, 2025

Legal Scholar Asks for Emergency Furloughs and Releases for ...

Immediate Ceasefire Needed as Attacks on Civilians Intensify

Immediate Ceasefire Needed as Attacks on Civilians Intensify

June 16, 2025

Global Leaders Must Confront Growing Civilian Crisis with Urgency and Resolve June ...

CHRI: Civilians Must Not Be Targets in Iran

CHRI: Civilians Must Not Be Targets in Iran

June 12, 2025

CHRI Urges Compliance with International Law June 12, 2025 — In ...

UNICEF’s Silence on Iran: Nobel Laureate Demands Action on Children’s Rights Abuses

UNICEF’s Silence on Iran: Nobel Laureate Demands Action on Children’s Rights Abuses

June 11, 2025

Shirin Ebadi: UNICEF Headquarters Should Act Where Local Iran ...

Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested

Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested

June 4, 2025

Families Pressured to Remain Silent to Obtain Release of Loved Ones Largest ...

Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners

Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners

May 27, 2025

Systematic Denial of Medical Care in Iran: A Slow ...

Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences

Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences

May 20, 2025

At Least 19 Writers and Poets Targeted in 2025, One Sentenced ...

Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers

Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers

May 14, 2025

New CHRI Fact Sheet Exposes Deepening Legal Crisis for Iran’s Embattled ...

‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist

‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist

May 5, 2025

May 5, 2025 — In a letter obtained by the ...

Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions

Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions

April 30, 2025

19 Labor Activists Still Imprisoned, One Woman at Risk of Execution Over ...

Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People

Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People

April 24, 2025

This article was originally published on The Hill. April 24, ...

Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency

Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency

April 16, 2025

Over 100 Executed in Just Three Months for Drug Offences  Former Prisoner ...

EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals

EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals

April 14, 2025

Collective Action Is Only Way to Address Iran’s Hostage ...

Five More Political Prisoners Hanged in Iran as Use of Death Penalty to Crush Dissent Surges

Five More Political Prisoners Hanged in Iran as Use of Death Penalty to Crush Dissent Surges

April 9, 2025

Executions Follow Sham Trials and “Confessions” Extracted Under Torture At Least 50 ...

Landmark Resolution: UN Human Rights Council Expands Fact-Finding Mission on Iran

Landmark Resolution: UN Human Rights Council Expands Fact-Finding Mission on Iran

April 3, 2025

All of Iran’s Ongoing Human Rights Crimes To Be Investigated 24 States ...

Imprisonment of Christians Jumps Six-Fold in Iran as Persecution Intensifies

Imprisonment of Christians Jumps Six-Fold in Iran as Persecution Intensifies

April 1, 2025

Judge to Christian: “It’s a disgrace that you are even ...

Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers

Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers

March 18, 2025

Iran’s Lawyers in a “Perilous Position,” Face Arrest, Torture and Imprisonment Statement ...

43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Renew Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies

43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Renew Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies

March 18, 2025

Work of the Special Rapporteur and the Fact-Finding Mission Deemed Critical Given “Full-fledged Human Rights Crisis” in Iran March 18, 2025 – A broad coalition of international human rights organizations, including the Center for Human ...

UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation

UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation

March 14, 2025

Fact-Finding Mission Cites Widescale Murder, Imprisonment, Torture and Rape UN: Systematic Abuses Continue, Accountability Outside Iran Should be Pursued March 14, 2025 – In a new report based on a two-year investigation, the UN ...

Iranian Authorities Are Killing Prisoners by Denying Lifesaving Medical Care

Iranian Authorities Are Killing Prisoners by Denying Lifesaving Medical Care

March 12, 2025

At Least Four Prisoners Dead in Just Two Months CHRI Speaks to ...

Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures

Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures

March 6, 2025

This International Women’s Day, the World Must Declare Gender Apartheid a ...

Joint Statement: Stop the Imminent Deportation of Activist Nahid Modaressi to Iran

Joint Statement: Stop the Imminent Deportation of Activist Nahid Modaressi to Iran

February 25, 2025

Refugees in Turkey at High Risk of Imprisonment, Torture if Returned to Iran February 25, 2025 — We, ...

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Latest News

  • Iran Launches Sweeping Crackdown: Hundreds Detained, Executions Underway
    Iran Launches Sweeping Crackdown: Hundreds Detained, Executions Underway
    June 26, 2025
  • Lives of Prisoners in Iran in Immediate Danger
    Lives of Prisoners in Iran in Immediate Danger
    June 23, 2025
  • Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran at Grave Risk Amid War
    Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran at Grave Risk Amid War
    June 19, 2025
  • Iranian Political Prisoner in Evin Prison Urges Action to Protect Prisoners As War Escalates
    Iranian Political Prisoner in Evin Prison Urges Action to Protect Prisoners As War Escalates
    June 18, 2025
  • Immediate Ceasefire Needed as Attacks on Civilians Intensify
    Immediate Ceasefire Needed as Attacks on Civilians Intensify
    June 16, 2025
  • CHRI: Civilians Must Not Be Targets in Iran
    CHRI: Civilians Must Not Be Targets in Iran
    June 12, 2025
  • UNICEF’s Silence on Iran: Nobel Laureate Demands Action on Children’s Rights Abuses
    UNICEF’s Silence on Iran: Nobel Laureate Demands Action on Children’s Rights Abuses
    June 11, 2025
  • Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested
    Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested
    June 4, 2025
  • Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners
    Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners
    May 27, 2025
  • Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
    Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
    May 20, 2025
  • Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers
    Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers
    May 14, 2025
  • ‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist
    ‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist
    May 5, 2025
  • Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions
    Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions
    April 30, 2025
  • Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People
    Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People
    April 24, 2025
  • Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency
    Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency
    April 16, 2025
  • EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals
    EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals
    April 14, 2025
  • Five More Political Prisoners Hanged in Iran as Use of Death Penalty to Crush Dissent Surges
    Five More Political Prisoners Hanged in Iran as Use of Death Penalty to Crush Dissent Surges
    April 9, 2025
  • Landmark Resolution: UN Human Rights Council Expands Fact-Finding Mission on Iran
    Landmark Resolution: UN Human Rights Council Expands Fact-Finding Mission on Iran
    April 3, 2025
  • Imprisonment of Christians Jumps Six-Fold in Iran as Persecution Intensifies
    Imprisonment of Christians Jumps Six-Fold in Iran as Persecution Intensifies
    April 1, 2025
  • Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers
    Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers
    March 18, 2025
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