January 11, 2020 – The Iranian people should be allowed to exercise their constitutional right to peaceful assembly without the threat of violence, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) after ...
Iran's judiciary should free all women and men who were arbitrarily detained as state forces violently repressed street protests this past November, said a group of UN human rights experts* on December 20, 2019. Up to ...
A grieving mother who vowed to continue pursuing her slain son’s pursuit of freedom. A housewife who lost her life while trying to save a victim of state violence. A prisoner ...
The grandmother of Pouya Bakhtiari, a 27-year-old man who was gunned down at a street protest on November 16, 2019, said the family’s home in Karaj, west of Tehran, was surrounded ...
December 16, 2019 -- A coalition of international human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran has called on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to launch ...
Fifteen-year-old Mohammad Dastankhah (also spelled Dadsetankhah) was walking home from high school in the city of Shiraz, Fars Province when he was shot and killed by a bullet while local authorities were ...
Family of Bystander Killed During Protests Demands Answers Reports of the shooting deaths of bystanders not involved in the recent protests in Iran in mid-November continue to grow, indicating the breadth of the ...
Victim Hamid Taheri's Relatives Forced to Sign "Pledge of Silence" Hospital authorities in the city of Islamshahr, Tehran Province, transferred the body of Hamid Taheri to state security forces without his family’s permission ...
“Who should we complain to? Our child is under the ground” The body of teenager Mohammad Javad Abedi was delivered to his family wrapped in a shroud and ready for burial several days after he was killed by security forces in Isfahan during recent street protests ...
The EU should lead calls for the UN to investigate the perpetrators of state repression in Iran that left at least 208 people dead amid nationwide protests ...
Public Outrage Grows As Reports of Bloody Crackdown Emerge: “Every Corner of Iran is Mourning the Atrocities” As reports of the unprecedented state violence against protestors in Iran begin to emerge now that ...
Family Surrounded by Agents at Funeral, Warned to Keep Mourning Crowd Small An unarmed civilian and mother of three young children, Ameneh Shahbazi, was killed by a bullet as she was trying to ...
27-Year-Old Died from Bullet to Head Amidst Violent State Assault on Protestors Manouchehr Bakhtiari, the father of a young protestor who was shot to death as he participated in the recent protests in ...
Parisa Rafiei Loses Her Last Legal Challenge to Seven-Year Sentence for Peaceful Protest Parisa Rafiei, the young student activist who recently lost her last chance to have her seven-year prison sentence reviewed ...
Journalists Will Be Charged with “Crimes” if Coverage Diverges from Official Line Officials Expected Protests, Dictated Instructions to Media Before Price Hike Was Announced November 25, 2019—While Iran is still reeling from the ...
*This article was updated with additional details on November 25. Early Tally Indicates at Least 4,000 Arrests as Concerns Mount for Detainees Smeared by State Media as “Rioters” In the wake of preliminary reports suggesting that thousands of people were arrested in the Iranian government’s crackdown on ...
Violence “Unacceptable,” Free Flow of Information Must Be Ensured The European Union’s External Action Committee, which manages the EU's diplomatic relations with other countries and conducts EU foreign and security policy for the 28-country bloc, released a statement today, November 21, calling on ...
November 19, 2019—The authorities’ use of excessive force against protestors in Iran, which has included the use of live ammunition and has resulted in dozens of deaths, is a blatant and unjustifiable violation of international law and must cease, the Center for Human Rights in Iran said in a statement today. ...
State security forces have used violent and deadly force to repress protests that erupted in dozens of cities in Iran during the evening of November 15, 2019, after the government announced a sudden gasoline price hike. On November 19, ...
Protesters in Shiraz. Numerous Unconfirmed Reports of Casualties, Injured After Protests Hit 50 Cities Protests that began in several Iranian cities on November 15, 2019, ...
November 16 Marks the International Day for Tolerance The International Day for Tolerance, declared by UNESCO in 1995, is observed each year on November 16. The UN says tolerance means “respect and appreciation ...
Fate of Detainees Unclear Despite Intervention by Supreme Leader Nearly two years after they were first detained in Tehran, eight conservationists have been charged with “cooperation with U.S. and Israeli enemy states against the Islamic Republic of Iran for the purpose of espionage for the CIA and Mossad,” the Center ...
The tomb of Cyrus the Great, a UNESCO protected world heritage site, is located southwest of the palaces of Pasargadae in Shiraz, Fars Province. Unofficial Commemoration ...
The charge of “corruption on earth,” which can lead to the death penalty under Iranian law, has been dropped against four detained conservationists following intervention by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the Center for ...
Women's Tickets Capped at 4,000 Out of 75,000 The soccer match between Iran and Cambodia on October 10, 2019, in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium included the historic presence of thousands of women. However, although the stadium was more than half empty, the authorities capped the number of ...