Iran Must Re-Open an Independent and Impartial Investigation into Labor Activist’s Abuse Multiple Cases of Alleged Torture Must Be Thoroughly Investigated January 17, 2018—After a brief and deeply flawed investigation lacking any ...
Esmail Bakhshi’s lawyer says her client is under intense pressure to retract statements about his torture Labor activist Esmail Bakhshi’s public letter in which he revealed his torture in ...
The food served at the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) is unsanitary and has been found to contain rodent feces, making some prisoners sick, the wife of a political prisoner held ...
Teachers who were peacefully protesting a fellow colleague’s heavy prison sentence were met with tear gas by anti-riot units who made “several arrests” in the Iranian city of Isfahan on December 27, 2018, a trade unionist told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). On ...
At Least 31 Steel Workers Remain Detained Eleven workers detained during protests by employees of the Iran National Steel Industrial Group (INSIG) in southwestern Iran between December 17-18, 2018, were released on bail December 19, but at least 31 others remain behind ...
The family of ailing labor activist Asghar Firouzi has been extremely “worried” about his condition since he was detained by unidentified security agents, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. ...
15 Petrochemical Workers Sentenced to Prison, Flogging for Protesting Unpaid Wages in Latest Ruling Unpaid Wages Violates Iranian Law, Flogging Violates International Law December 13, 2018—In yet another ruling punishing workers for ...
Four months after 19 university students in Iran were issued harsh prison sentences for attending protests, the country’s president declared that Iran’s ...
Editor's Update: Esmail Bakhshi was released on bail on November 21, 2018, and Sepideh Gholian on December 18. Both were freed on bail. Detained labor activists Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh ...
Imprisoned human rights lawyer Mohammad Najafi appeared at Branch 1 of Iran’s Revolutionary Court in Arak, Markazi Province, to face four additional charges ...
Dozens of conservation practitioners and scholars, including renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, have issued an impassioned defense of eight of their colleagues who have been detained ...
Farhad Meysami (left), ...
Iranian security and judicial authorities responded to the second round of peaceful teachers' rights strikes by arresting and summoning alleged participants in several cities across the nation. ...
Hundreds of farmers have been camped out on the eastern and western outskirts of the Iranian city of Isfahan for more than 40 days to protest the ...
Fifteen staff members of the HEPCO manufacturing company in Markazi Province, Iran, have been issued suspended prison and lashing sentences for striking for unpaid wages, reported ...
Mohammad Najafi is the Seventh Attorney to Be Sent to Prison in Last Six Months, Six Remain Behind Bars October 30, 2018—Iran’s sentencing of attorney Mohammad Najafi to three years in prison and 74 ...
Khastar Was Tending to a Garden When “Plainclothes” Agents Arrested Him *Editor's Update: Teachers’ rights activist HashemKhastar was released November 10, 2018, from the psychiatric facility in Mashhad where he had been illegally held since October 23. Teachers’ ...
Prosecutions Lacking Due Process Aimed at Deflecting Attention from Death of One of the Detainees October 23, 2018 – Nine months after a group of environmentalists were imprisoned in Iran without any evidence of wrongdoing ...
Sotoudeh’s Sister Threatened With Arrest Imprisoned Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, has been charged with national security crimes for peacefully supporting his wife and ...
Four teachers are currently behind bars in Iranian prisons for engaging in peaceful trade union activities, according to Rassoul Bodaghi, a formerly imprisoned labor activist and senior member of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade ...
Since January 2018, at least eight environmentalists have been detained in Iran even though the country's own Intelligence Ministry has admitted there's no evidence to support the politically motivated charges the detainees are facing. They include Sam Rajabi, Niloufar Bayani, Morad Tahbaz (also holds American citizenship), Amir Hossein Khaleghi, ...
UN SRs on Human Rights Banned From Visiting Since 2005 The new special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, has requested that Iran ...
Mobile Billboard with Photos of Iran’s Political Prisoners to Circle UN Headquarters During Meetings September 19, 2018—As President Hassan Rouhani comes to NY to attend the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Center ...
Eighteen Sufi dervishes of the Gonabadi Order are on hunger strike in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) including Zafarali Moghimi, who is in ...
Iranian students clash with riot police during an anti-government protest around the University of Tehran, Iran, 30 December 2017. Media reported that illegal protest against the government is ...