New Rule Strengthens Long-Standing Discrimination Against Persecuted Religious Minorities, Especially Bahai’s January 27, 2020 – In a new rule that severely discriminates against all unrecognized minority religions in Iran, the state-issued National Identity Card—which is required for almost all government and other transactions—will only allow citizens to register ...
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 for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges the international community to directly address ...
At least 15 dual nationals, four foreign nationals and one foreign permanent resident were known to be held in Iran (imprisoned, under house arrest, or prohibited from leaving the country) as of May 2022 ...
This report is essential reading for policymakers and officials charting a forward path with the Islamic Republic. It provides an in-depth review of the Citizens’ Rights Charter and analysis of the political dynamics affecting human rights in Iran. The report establishes that the charter has no ability to impact the rights situation in Iran and ...
Mohammad Reza Hashemi-Nabi, a permanent resident of the UK, has been held in solitary confinement in Iran’s Evin Prison for more than a year without access to a lawyer, his mother informed the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Hashemi-Nabi, 47, was arrested ...
Karan Vafadari: “I don’t think we will be justly treated unless there is greater and more effective international pressure.” Karan Vafadari Arrested After ...
Iranian women protest their country’s hijab law by waving their headscarves in public. Several women protested against Iran’s compulsory hijab law in the streets of Tehran and ...
Iranian officials have accused two Iranian protesters who died in custody of committing suicide and of being drug addicts. But a prominent human rights lawyer and a reformist MP from Tehran have stated that there's much more to the ...
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry coerced the father of a dead protester into claiming in front of a camera that his son was killed during an armed confrontation with security forces, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. The footage was then aired on state TV. “What you ...
Nematollah Shafiei was a bystander who was shot and killed during protests in Qahderijan, Isfahan Province, on January 2, 2018, his brother Hossein, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “Intelligence Ministry agents came to our house and told my mother not to scream and ...
16 Reformist MPs Urge Support For Protesters A top reformist lawmaker has pledged to investigate the arrests by Iran's Intelligence Ministry of dozens of university students during the country’s recent nationwide protests. “According to a list that was given to me, about 90 students have been arrested throughout ...
“We will not go anywhere until we get some news about our kids.” The families of protesters detained during the anti-government protests that began in Iran on December 28, 2017, have been threatened with arrest for holding a sit-in at Evin Prison in Tehran. “Since the first night ...