Prison Fails to Meet UN’s Minimum Standards for Treatment of Prisoners Two hundred inmates in Ward 5 of Gharchak Prison for women in the Iranian city of Varamin have sent an open letter to the ...
Senior Advisor to Judiciary Asks Why the State Should Be Concerned with “Legal Matters” Pourmohammadi: “We still haven’t settled scores” August 5, 2019—New remarks by a senior judicial official in Iran, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, in which ...
(9 May 2019) – UN human rights experts* called on Iran to immediately halt the practice of executing child offenders, citing serious concerns for up to 90 individuals who were all under ...
Iran’s Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi has appointed Ali Alghasi-Mehr as ...
The appointment by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei of a known human rights violator to head the country’s judiciary is a prelude to dark days ahead for human and civil rights defenders, Iranian ...
Majid Shoja, Police Chief Three prisoners accused of killing law enforcement agents during drug raids were executed in the eastern Iranian province ...
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 ...
Despite being diagnosed with mental and emotional disorders, Mohammad Kalhori is facing imminent execution in Iran for a crime he allegedly committed at the ...
UN, Geneva, February 21, 2019 -- Iran must immediately halt the imminent execution of child offender Mohammad Kalhori, say a group of UN human rights experts*. Mohammad Kalhori** was sentenced to death for killing his ...
The former director of NASA's Solar System Exploration program, Dr. Firouz Naderi, has joined the international call for Iran to release all political prisoners including Nasrin Sotoudeh, Farhad Meysami and Reza Khandan, who were all imprisoned this year in Iran for peacefully advocating human and women's rights. ...
A defendant addresses Judge Abolqasem Salavati, who's notorious in Iran ...
At Least Four Academics and One Scientist With Foreign Ties Detained in Iran Since 2016 *Editor's Note: This article was corrected on December 6, 2018, to reflect that Mohammad Jalal Abbasi ...
Editor's Note: This resolution was passed December 17, 2018, with 84 voting for, 30 against and 67 in abstention: http://undocs.org/A/73/589/Add.3. Serious Concern Expressed for Unlawful Executions and Arbitrary Detentions November 19, 2018 – ...
Five Death Sentence Issued in Preliminary Rulings, Two Upheld by Supreme Court November 7, 2018—Special courts set up by Iran’s judiciary and approved by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in August 2018 to try individuals ...
The corpse of Iranian activist Farshid Hakki was found burned in the trunk of his car near his home in Tehran on ...
Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against a 25-year-old Kurdish auto mechanic on false charges, the mechanic’s lawyer told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Hedayat Abdollahpour was arrested in ...
Unnamed “special courts for economic crimes” in Iran have sentenced three people to death and condemned 32 others to long prison sentences for allegedly manipulating Iran’s gold and currency markets, Judiciary ...
Zeinab Sekaanvand is Fifth Known Juvenile Offender Executed in Past Year October 2, 2018 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) condemns the execution of Zeinab Sekaanvand Lankarani who was charged with ...
Two Kurdish men, Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostad-Ghader, have been held incommunicado inside Iran’s Intelligence Ministry detention center in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, since they were arrested on August 3, 2018, the Center for Human ...
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 ...
After a mass strike by Kurdish merchants in western Iran on September 12, 2018, Iranian security forces arrested several civil rights activists in the region, the Center for Human ...
All Three Cases Rife with Denial of Due Process and Evidence of Torture and Forced Confessions September 10, 2018—Iran’s execution of three Kurdish prisoners, Ramin Hossein ...
Fears for Ramin Hossein Panahi Grow Despite Torture and Due Process Violation Concerns The execution of a Kurdish death-row prisoner has become more likely, despite credible questions regarding violations of due ...