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State Massacres Fail to Crush Protests in Sistan and Baluchestan Province

State Massacres Fail to Crush Protests in Sistan and Baluchestan Province

November 8, 2022

Government Ignores Top Sunni Cleric’s Calls for Accountability Massacres of protesters by state security forces in the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan have not stemmed protests that began there in late September over the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl by the police chief of the city of Chabahar, ...

UN Secretary General Condemns Increasing Executions, Worsening Repression in Raisi’s Iran

UN Secretary General Condemns Increasing Executions, Worsening Repression in Raisi’s Iran

June 21, 2022

In his latest report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern over the rising number of executions in the Islamic of Iran, as well as "patterns of arbitrary deprivation of life due to excessive force used by the authorities ...

Khuzestan Kangaroo Court Sentences Two Protesters to Death, Life in Prison

Khuzestan Kangaroo Court Sentences Two Protesters to Death, Life in Prison

December 8, 2021

Abbas and Mohsen Deris, both members of Iran’s ethnic Arab minority in Khuzestan Province, were arrested during the country’s violently repressed November 2019 protests, which broke out across the country that month and which saw an estimated 100 protesters killed in Khuzestan alone ...

Khuzestan: Fears Grow of Massive Carnage as Authorities Repeat Deadly Repression of 2019 Protests

Khuzestan: Fears Grow of Massive Carnage as Authorities Repeat Deadly Repression of 2019 Protests

July 23, 2021

New Amnesty Report Highlights Use of Live Ammunition, Killings in Drought-Ridden Province  July 23, 2021—With security forces in Iran attacking and killing protesters in Khuzestan Province, the Iranian authorities are once again demonstrating complete disregard for the law, life, and all international standards of policing, the Center ...

Khuzestan Protests: Iranians Should be Allowed to Air Grievances Without Threat of Death

Khuzestan Protests: Iranians Should be Allowed to Air Grievances Without Threat of Death

July 19, 2021

At Least Three Shot Dead Less Than a Week into Demonstrations Against Water, Power Shortages July 19, 2021—The unlawful killings of protesters by state security forces in Iran’s drought-ridden Khuzestan Province should be condemned by the UN and international community to prevent further loss of life from ...

Mohseni-Ejei’s Appointment as Iran’s Judiciary Chief Poses Grave Threat to Rights Activists

Mohseni-Ejei’s Appointment as Iran’s Judiciary Chief Poses Grave Threat to Rights Activists

July 6, 2021

Judicial System To Be Used To Further Suppress Dissent July 6, 2021—The appointment of Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei, a major human rights violator, as the Islamic Republic’s new judiciary chief is another indication of the commitment by the country’s ruling establishment to use the judicial system as a ...

UN Deplores “Systematic” Use of Lethal State Force Against Border Couriers in Iran

UN Deplores “Systematic” Use of Lethal State Force Against Border Couriers in Iran

March 5, 2021

Widespread Shutdown of Internet Described as Violation of International Law In response to the killing by state security forces of couriers and protesters in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan Province since unrest broke out in the area on February 22, 2021—and the intermittent shutdown of the internet ...

Deaths Rising in Sistan and Baluchistan as Unrest Continues Amid Internet Shutdown

Deaths Rising in Sistan and Baluchistan as Unrest Continues Amid Internet Shutdown

March 1, 2021

At Least 23 Killed by State Forces Since Unrest Began in Late February March 1, 2021—The killing by state security forces of some two dozen protesters in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan Province since unrest broke out in the area on February 22, 2021—and the intermittent shutdown of the ...

Non-Persian Mother Languages Treated as “National Security Threat” in Iran

Non-Persian Mother Languages Treated as “National Security Threat” in Iran

February 26, 2021

As the world marked International Mother Language Day in 2021, non-Persian native languages remained under attack in Iran, where non-Persian-speaking ethnic minorities are subject to state and institutional discrimination and the official teaching of mother languages is restricted and monitored by the Iranian government.  “For years, the state ...

36 Human Rights Groups Appeal for Release of Kurdish Detainees and Other Minorities in Iran

36 Human Rights Groups Appeal for Release of Kurdish Detainees and Other Minorities in Iran

February 4, 2021

The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has joined 35 fellow civil society and human rights organizations to make the following urgent appeal and end the ongoing intimidation and arrest campaign against Kurdish and other minority activists and individuals in Iran.   URGENT INTERNATIONAL ACTION NEEDED TO SECURE RELEASE OF ...

UN Experts Condemn Iran’s Executions of Baloch Minority Prisoners

UN Experts Condemn Iran’s Executions of Baloch Minority Prisoners

February 4, 2021

Following is the UN statement issued today condemning the Iranian judiciary's hanging of Javid Dehghan, a member of the country's Baloch minority, amid a recent increase in executions of Baloch minority prisoners in the country. Iran: UN experts alarmed over execution of Baloch minority ...

Three Baluch Prisoners Executed, Three Others in Imminent Danger of Execution

Three Baluch Prisoners Executed, Three Others in Imminent Danger of Execution

December 23, 2020

At Least 10 Prisoners on Death Row in Zahedan, Accused of Membership in Militant Groups Application of Death Penalty in Political Cases Continues to Increase Three prisoners were recently executed in Iran, two in the central prison in Zahedan, capital of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan Province, and one in ...

Danger of Imminent Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner, Lawyer Says

Danger of Imminent Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner, Lawyer Says

September 22, 2020

Supreme Court Refuses to Review Death Sentence Despite Lack of Evidence of Guilt Kurdish political prisoner Heydar Ghorbani is in danger of imminent execution as Iran’s highest court has refused to review the death sentence against him, his lawyer Saleh Nikbakht told the Center for Human Rights in ...

Execution of Navid Afkari: “Iran’s Judiciary is a Tool of Political Repression and Violence and a Threat to the People”

Execution of Navid Afkari: “Iran’s Judiciary is a Tool of Political Repression and Violence and a Threat to the People”

September 12, 2020

Champion Wrestler Executed despite Evidence of Torture and Innocence September 12, 2020—The execution of Navid Afkari, the 27-year-old champion wrestler, by hanging at sunrise today in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, demonstrates the Iranian judiciary’s complete disregard for law, justice and international standards of due process. The ...

Top UN Iran Expert Expresses “Alarm” at Iran’s “Unprecedented Violent Crackdown” against Protestors

Top UN Iran Expert Expresses “Alarm” at Iran’s “Unprecedented Violent Crackdown” against Protestors

September 11, 2020

Imprisonment of Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders, Juvenile Executions, Singled Out for Condemnation In the latest report by the UN’s top expert on Iran, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, expressed “alarm” and “dismay” over ...

Kurdish Political Prisoner Not Heard from for Weeks Since Announcing COVID Symptoms

Kurdish Political Prisoner Not Heard from for Weeks Since Announcing COVID Symptoms

July 14, 2020

Long Denied Medical Care, Family Fears for Well-being of Zeinab Jalalian Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian, who has had a history of serious and untreated medical problems during her long imprisonment in Iran, has not been heard from for weeks since she told her family that ...

Death Sentences for Three Protestors Confirmed by Supreme Court in Iran

Death Sentences for Three Protestors Confirmed by Supreme Court in Iran

July 13, 2020

Death Sentences for Three Protestors Confirmed by Supreme Court in Iran Unlawful and Cruel Sentences Reflect Increase in Death Sentences in Political Cases Lawyers’ Last Hope is to Seek Judicial Review, Citing “Serious Flaws” in Rulings July 13, 2020—The death sentences against three young men for their participation in the ...

Kurdish Prisoner, 27, Secretly Executed Despite Judge Agreeing He Was Innocent

Kurdish Prisoner, 27, Secretly Executed Despite Judge Agreeing He Was Innocent

June 25, 2020

Death Sentence Was Result Pressure from Revolutionary Guards The family of Hedayatollah (Hedayat) Abdollahpour, a 27-year-old Kurdish-Iranian father of two who was on death row based on false charges since 2018, has...

Get Up, Stand Up: Protest and the Struggle for Justice 

Get Up, Stand Up: Protest and the Struggle for Justice 

June 3, 2020

The murder of George Floyd was not just the killing of one man, it was an assault on justice and the rule of law. It is one instance of many in which police violence is systematically inflicted upon people of color with impunity. The Center for Human Rights ...

Unrecognized Minorities in Iran Must Now Hide Religion to Obtain Crucial Government ID

Unrecognized Minorities in Iran Must Now Hide Religion to Obtain Crucial Government ID

January 27, 2020

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 ...

Promote Respect for All on the International Day for Tolerance

Promote Respect for All on the International Day for Tolerance

November 16, 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 of the rich variety of our world’s cultures [and] our forms of expression” and “recognizes ...

Honor Student Barred from Completing Graduate Studies Because of His Religious Faith

Honor Student Barred from Completing Graduate Studies Because of His Religious Faith

November 15, 2019

Member of Yarasan Religious Minority is Expelled from Razi University in Iran Siavash Hayati, spokesman for the minority Yarasan faith, was prohibited from completing his master’s degree and expelled from Razi University in Kermanshah, western Iran, for refusing to renounce his religious beliefs. “At the university’s security ...

Detained Kurdish Teacher Falsely Accused of Security Charges, Sister Says

Detained Kurdish Teacher Falsely Accused of Security Charges, Sister Says

November 12, 2019

Held Almost Six Months, Over Two Months Incommunicado, Even As Family Has Posted Bail Kurdish language teacher Zahra Mohammadi has been in detention in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, since May 23, 2019, falsely accused of “propaganda against the state,” and “acting against national ...

UN Expert Concerned by Crackdown on Protests and Strikes in Iran

UN Expert Concerned by Crackdown on Protests and Strikes in Iran

March 15, 2019

Iranian students clash with riot police during an anti-government protest around the University of Tehran, Iran, 30 December 2017. Living conditions difficult for many Iranians Expert calls for release of those detained for exercising their rights Law allowing death sentence for ...

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Slaps Azeri Rights Activist With New Charges, Claim He’s Organizing Protests from Prison

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Slaps Azeri Rights Activist With New Charges, Claim He’s Organizing Protests from Prison

March 8, 2019

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry is pressing new charges against prominent Azeri ethnic rights activist Abbas Lesani, claiming he has been organizing protests from inside the prison in the city of Ardabil where he is incarcerated. Since January ...

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