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Jailed Iranian Director Jafar Panahi Hunger Strikes Against “Hostage-Taking”

Jailed Iranian Director Jafar Panahi Hunger Strikes Against “Hostage-Taking”

February 2, 2023

In an open letter, renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi has announced the beginning of his hunger strike in Tehran's Evin Prison until he is freed from his illegal imprisonment. "I firmly declare that in protest against the unlawful and inhumane behavior of the judicial and security apparatus and this particular hostage-taking, ...

Children’s Rights Advocates, Mainly Women, Targeted in Crackdown on Anti-State Protests in Iran

Children’s Rights Advocates, Mainly Women, Targeted in Crackdown on Anti-State Protests in Iran

February 1, 2023

Women Aiding Vulnerable Children Detained As State Broadens Efforts to Crush Movement for Change February 1, 2023 – Women who have devoted their lives to aiding underprivileged and at-risk youth in Iran have come under increasing attack by the Iranian government in its violent ...

Iran: Families of Detained and Killed Protesters Beaten, Threatened to Stay Silent

Iran: Families of Detained and Killed Protesters Beaten, Threatened to Stay Silent

January 25, 2023

Attorneys Jailed to Prevent Them From Defending Protesters and Their Families   January 25, 2023 – Four months into the Islamic Republic’s violent suppression of anti-state protests, Iranian authorities are beating, firing and threatening the families of detained and killed protesters to force them to remain ...

Suspicious Deaths of Released Protesters in Iran Should be Investigated by UN

Suspicious Deaths of Released Protesters in Iran Should be Investigated by UN

January 19, 2023

Credible Evidence Challenges Iranian Authorities’ Claims of “Suicides” Families Describe Visibly Tortured Bodies, Fabricated Evidence, Forced Quick Burials January 19, 2023 – The UN Fact-Finding Mission should investigate the suspicious deaths of a number of recently released detained protesters, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said ...

Governments Worldwide Should Recall Ambassadors from Iran

Governments Worldwide Should Recall Ambassadors from Iran

January 12, 2023

Executions of Protesters Continuing; Forceful Action Urgently Needed  EU and At Least Eight European Countries Summon Iran’s Ambassadors January 12, 2023 – Governments around the world should recall their ambassadors from the Islamic Republic in protest against the Iranian government’s hanging of protesters and killing of hundreds of peaceful ...

Iran Protests: At Least 44 Defense Attorneys Arrested Since September

Iran Protests: At Least 44 Defense Attorneys Arrested Since September

January 10, 2023

Crackdown Aimed at Destroying Any Chance of Fair Trials for Protesters Detainees Forced to Use Court-Appointed Lawyers January 10, 2023 – While the Islamic Republic has been gunning down and executing street protesters, it has also been arresting defense attorneys—at least 44 since September—to block their ability to ...

Two More Men Executed in Iran in Connection with Protests, Others at Imminent Risk

Two More Men Executed in Iran in Connection with Protests, Others at Imminent Risk

January 7, 2023

World Leaders Should Withdraw Ambassadors, Demand Moratorium on Executions January 7, 2023 – The hanging in Iran today of two men who were arrested in connection with street protests, Mohammad Mehdi Karami, 22, and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, 39, is an escalation of the Islamic Republic ...

Third Anniversary of Shooting Down of Ukrainian Passenger Plane, Still No Justice

Third Anniversary of Shooting Down of Ukrainian Passenger Plane, Still No Justice

January 6, 2023

Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, and UK Call for Binding Arbitration No One Held Accountable for IRGC’s Killing of 176 Passengers   January 6, 2023—Three years after the shooting down of Ukrainian Passenger Flight PS752 by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), no Iranian officials have been held accountable ...

Iranian Athletes Killed, Tortured, Sentenced to Death for Supporting Protests (Updated)

Iranian Athletes Killed, Tortured, Sentenced to Death for Supporting Protests (Updated)

January 4, 2023

Editor's Note: This article is regularly updated with new information. January 4, 2023 – The Islamic Republic’s persecution of athletes for peacefully supporting anti-state protests that have been ongoing throughout the country since September 2022 should be publicly condemned by sports federations and the international community, said the ...

Recommendations: Congress Can Play a Vital Role in Supporting the Protesters in Iran

Recommendations: Congress Can Play a Vital Role in Supporting the Protesters in Iran

December 21, 2022

December 21, 2022 – Since peaceful protests erupted across Iran in September 2022, the Islamic Republic has tried to crush them by killing hundreds of men and women, including dozens of children, arresting thousands, and executing protesters. Congress can play a vital role in supporting the basic ...

Recommendations for the U.S. Congress on Iran

Recommendations for the U.S. Congress on Iran

December 21, 2022

Read our Press Release Read the recommendations in a PDF Since peaceful protests erupted across Iran in September 2022, the Islamic Republic has sought to crush them by killing hundreds of men and women, including dozens of children, arresting thousands, and executing ...

Iran: Death Sentences and Imprisonment Used to Crush Dissent in Film and Theatre Industries

Iran: Death Sentences and Imprisonment Used to Crush Dissent in Film and Theatre Industries

December 20, 2022

26-Year-Old Actor Sentenced to Death, More Than 100 Industry Members Imprisoned December 20, 2022 – The sentencing of theater actor Hossein Mohammadi to death in Iran after a show trial, and the arbitrary detentions of more than 100 film and theatre industry workers including superstar ...

Iran’s Courts Using Death Penalty Charges to Crush Protests

Iran’s Courts Using Death Penalty Charges to Crush Protests

December 15, 2022

At Least 11 Sentenced to Death and 24 Others Facing Charges that Could Carry Death Penalty December 15, 2022 – At least 11 men have been sentenced to death in the Islamic Republic, and 24 others are facing charges that could carry the death penalty, raising ...

Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women

Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women

December 14, 2022

Two Major UN Votes Signal World’s Revulsion at Islamic Republic’s Violence against Protesters December 14, 2022 – The vote today by the UN Economic and Social Council to remove the Islamic Republic of Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women—following a vote in November by the UN Human ...

Iran Protests: Children Killed and Tortured to Crush Dissent

Iran Protests: Children Killed and Tortured to Crush Dissent

December 13, 2022

Children Beaten on Streets and in State Custody, Assaulted in Schools December 13, 2022 – Children in Iran accused of supporting the country’s protest movement are being subjected to physical and psychological torture in Iranian custody as well as in their schools, according to interviews and ...

Lynching in Iran: Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, Publicly Hanged in State-Sponsored Murder

Lynching in Iran: Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, Publicly Hanged in State-Sponsored Murder

December 12, 2022

Young People will Continue to be Killed in Iran without International Action  December 12, 2022 – The hanging in public of Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, in Mashhad today—the second execution of a young person in Iran without due process in less than a week—is a prelude to more state-sponsored murders of ...

Executions in Iran: World Must Respond with Strong Action Against State Killings of Protesters

Executions in Iran: World Must Respond with Strong Action Against State Killings of Protesters

December 8, 2022

Café Worker Mohsen Shekari, 23, Denied Due Process in Kangaroo Court   December 8, 2022 – The execution today in Iran of Mohsen Shekari, 23, after a trial by a kangaroo court that denied him due process emphasizes the need for urgent international action to stop the ...

Iran Protests: Voices from Iran (Updated)

Iran Protests: Voices from Iran (Updated)

December 6, 2022

Our team at the Center for Human Rights in Iran is in daily contact with Iranians throughout the country. In this regularly updated post, we publish what we are hearing from Iranians from all walks of life. ...

Women’s Uprising in Iran

Women’s Uprising in Iran

December 5, 2022

On November 17, 2022, Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), spoke at a panel discussion hosted by the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting at Stonybrook University's School of Communication and Journalism on the people's uprising in Iran following the believed killing in state ...

Iran Protests: Juveniles Could Face Death Penalty in Kangaroo “Revolutionary” Court

Iran Protests: Juveniles Could Face Death Penalty in Kangaroo “Revolutionary” Court

November 30, 2022

Governments, UN Must Take Urgent Action to Protect Them November 30, 2022 – At least three juveniles are among 15 individuals in the Iranian city of Karaj who are facing charges that could carry the death penalty in Iran’s “Islamic Revolutionary Court” system, which has a documented history of ...

Iran: Key Labor Sectors Launch Major Strikes Amid Anti-State Protests

Iran: Key Labor Sectors Launch Major Strikes Amid Anti-State Protests

November 29, 2022

At Least a Dozen Labor Leaders Arrested in Effort to Crush Strikes Islamic Republic Should Be Expelled from ILO Governing Board November 29, 2022 – More than three months into anti-state protests across Iran that state security forces have been unable to crush despite the use of ...

Iran Protests: Massacre in Kurdish Areas Feared as Security Forces Launch Lethal Crackdown

Iran Protests: Massacre in Kurdish Areas Feared as Security Forces Launch Lethal Crackdown

November 21, 2022

Authorities Shut Down Internet to Prevent Evidence of State’s Atrocities from Reaching Outside World November 21, 2022 – With Iranian security forces launching a massive assault on protesters in Kurdish-populated cities in Iran, and mounting deaths being reported, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...

Joint Statement: 21 Iranian Human Rights Lawyers Urge UN to Stop Child Killings in Iran

Joint Statement: 21 Iranian Human Rights Lawyers Urge UN to Stop Child Killings in Iran

November 21, 2022

In a joint statement obtained by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) and translated into English, 21 Iranian human rights lawyers have called on UN officials and agencies to take immediate steps to end child killings in Iran, where at least 50 children have been killed ...

Three More Children Killed as Iranian Merchants Close Shops in Solidarity with Uprising

Three More Children Killed as Iranian Merchants Close Shops in Solidarity with Uprising

November 18, 2022

November 18, 2022 – In a strong show of support for their country’s growing protest movement, and as children continue to be among those killed by state security forces, merchants in major cities closed their shops this week, which marked the third anniversary of the state’s violent suppression of the ...

Beleaguered Yet Defiant, Iranian Artists Persecuted for Supporting Anti-State Protests  

Beleaguered Yet Defiant, Iranian Artists Persecuted for Supporting Anti-State Protests  

November 16, 2022

Actresses Appear Without State-Mandated Headscarves as 100+ Film Industry Workers Face Unemployment, Prosecution  Almost anywhere else, it wouldn’t have been a big deal. But because she’s based in the Islamic Republic of Iran, prominent Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti made international headlines when she, for the ...

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