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Borrell, EU Must Speak Out Against Growing Human Rights Crisis in Iran

Borrell, EU Must Speak Out Against Growing Human Rights Crisis in Iran

June 27, 2022

Same Efforts Applied to Nuclear Deal Can and Should Be Given to Human Rights President Biden Has Also Remained Silent on State’s Violent Crackdown in Iran June 27, 2022 - European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who has traveled travel to Tehran and issued multiple public ...

In Cahoots with the State, Iranian Court Sentences Lawyers, Activists Trying to Sue Officials to Prison

In Cahoots with the State, Iranian Court Sentences Lawyers, Activists Trying to Sue Officials to Prison

June 22, 2022

Supreme Leader’s COVID Vaccine Ban Resulted in Thousands of Unnecessary Deaths June 22, 2022 – For trying to sue Iranian leaders for their grossly negligent response to the COVID-19 pandemic, three lawyers and two civil rights activists have been sentenced to prison. “These individuals are being ...

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 ...

UN Experts Alarmed by Civil Society Crackdown in Iran

UN Experts Alarmed by Civil Society Crackdown in Iran

June 15, 2022

UN human rights experts today expressed serious concerns about a violent crackdown against civil society in Iran, including members of workers’ unions and teachers arrested for protesting against their low salaries and poor working conditions, and urged those responsible for using excessive force to be held to ...

Policy Briefing: Human Rights in Iran and U.S. National Security Interests

Policy Briefing: Human Rights in Iran and U.S. National Security Interests

June 14, 2022

Repression of Civil Society Harms U.S. Security Interests June 14, 2022— President Biden’s silence so far on the killings and mass arrests of protesters in Iran by state security forces over the last month—the latest in a long line of lethal state responses to dissent in ...

Rights Groups Call on Meta to Fix Persian Content Moderation for Instagram

Rights Groups Call on Meta to Fix Persian Content Moderation for Instagram

June 9, 2022

June 9, 2022 — In a joint statement released today, human rights organizations ARTICLE 19, Access Now, and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) called on Meta to urgently revise its flawed content-moderation process for Persian-language content on the Instagram social media app. The current process ...

Open Letter by Former Cellmates of Imprisoned Conservationists in Iran

Open Letter by Former Cellmates of Imprisoned Conservationists in Iran

June 7, 2022

Former female cellmates of a group of wildlife conservationists who’ve been unjustly imprisoned in Iran since January 2018 penned the following letter as a tribute to their nature-loving friends on the occasion World Environment Day, June 5, 2022. The letter was initially written in Persian and provided ...

Iran Should Be Ejected from ILO’s Governing Board Says Iran’s National Teacher Organization

Iran Should Be Ejected from ILO’s Governing Board Says Iran’s National Teacher Organization

June 3, 2022

Open Letter Condemns Iran’s “Brutal Repression” of Trade Unions and Labor Activists June 2, 2022—In an open letter to the delegates at the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 110th Session of the International Labour Conference, currently being held in Geneva, Switzerland, the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, ...

85 Lawyers Call on Iranian Government to Respect Right to Protest

85 Lawyers Call on Iranian Government to Respect Right to Protest

May 26, 2022

In an unprecedented display of unity in defense of the Iranian people, 85 lawyers from Iran have signed an open letter calling on the Iranian government to respect the right to protest. “It is the people’s satisfaction towards the rulers that is a fundamental pillar of spiritual and material statecraft, ...

Activists Urge UN Rep to Meet Them During Trip to Iran

Activists Urge UN Rep to Meet Them During Trip to Iran

May 12, 2022

Government’s Refusal to Allow UN Human Rights Experts into Country Condemned May 12, 2022 -- A group of prominent civil rights activists in Iran has called on UN representative Alena Douhan, who will be visiting Iran shortly to assess the negative impact of sanctions on the country, to meet ...

Interview: Atena Daemi was Jailed in Iran for Advocating Women’s Rights. Now She’s Free and Refusing to be Silent

Interview: Atena Daemi was Jailed in Iran for Advocating Women’s Rights. Now She’s Free and Refusing to be Silent

April 27, 2022

When Atena Daemi was growing up in Iran and attending school in a religious-conservative neighborhood in south Tehran, she noticed the many ways in which women were treated differently than men. Girls had to cover almost every inch of their bodies and severly restrict their activities, while men could ...

Joint Statement: Iran Should Stop Persecuting Families Seeking Justice for State Atrocities

Joint Statement: Iran Should Stop Persecuting Families Seeking Justice for State Atrocities

April 7, 2022

The 15 undersigned organizations, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), today issued a joint statement calling on the international community to urge the Iranian authorities to immediately cease their reprisals against the Iran Atrocities (Aban) Tribunal’s witnesses and their families, and to quash all convictions and sentences connected to their or their ...

Relatives of Victims of State Violence are Being Persecuted in Iran

Relatives of Victims of State Violence are Being Persecuted in Iran

March 31, 2022

The government of President Ebrahim Raisi should end the state’s campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of victims of state violence, including those who died during street protests ...

Civil Disobedience: Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi Resists Prison Summons

Civil Disobedience: Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi Resists Prison Summons

March 23, 2022

Longtime human rights defender and former prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi is peacefully refusing to report to prison in Tehran to serve an eight-year sentence that was issued against her after a five-minute trial ...

Interview: Rights Lawyer Turned Political Prisoners Condemns “Shameful” Acts Against Lawyers in Iran

Interview: Rights Lawyer Turned Political Prisoners Condemns “Shameful” Acts Against Lawyers in Iran

March 22, 2022

Defense attorney Amirsalar Davoudi was imprisoned in Iran for running a social media channel that provided information to lawyers. *Editor's Note: Amirsalar Davoudi was forced to return to Evin Prison in Tehran on June 26, 2022, to serve a 10-year sentence. Human ...

Unprecedented Lawsuit Filed Against Supreme Leader, Top Iranian Officials

Unprecedented Lawsuit Filed Against Supreme Leader, Top Iranian Officials

March 10, 2022

Complaint Alleges Gross Negligence in Government’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic  Lawyers Who Filed the Complaint are Facing Prison Time Two lawyers in Iran, Arash Keykhosravi and Mohammad Reza Faghihi, filed an official complaint against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and 18 other state officials on March 6, ...

Plea to UN to Demand Freedom for Gravely Ill Sepideh Qoliyan

Plea to UN to Demand Freedom for Gravely Ill Sepideh Qoliyan

March 10, 2022

Fears Mount for Young Activist Who is Being Denied Crucial Medical Treatment March 10, 2022 – Two months after two political prisoners died in Iranian state custody, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has sent a letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

UN Human Rights Experts: New Internet Bill Brings Iran Closer to “Digital Wall”

UN Human Rights Experts: New Internet Bill Brings Iran Closer to “Digital Wall”

March 1, 2022

UN human rights experts have urged the Iranian government to abandon a proposed bill that would drastically increase the authorities’ ability to censor and surveil activity on the internet. "This bill represents a worrying step towards the consolidation of a digital wall in Iran," the experts ...

Crackdown on Labor Activists in Iran

Crackdown on Labor Activists in Iran

February 15, 2022

Amid an intensifying campaign of political repression in Iran, state authorities have been summoning, detaining, and imprisoning peaceful labor rights activists and a journalist in various cities throughout the country. A lawyer who has represented several labor activists could also soon be sent to prison for ...

100+ Academics Across Globe Sign Letter Protesting Firing of Professors in Iran

100+ Academics Across Globe Sign Letter Protesting Firing of Professors in Iran

February 10, 2022

Professors “Unjustly Dismissed” from Iranian Institutions for “Political Reasons” Universities Not Escaping Intensifying Repression in Islamic Republic In yet another reflection of intensifying repression in the Islamic Republic, a large group of prominent scholars and academics from around the globe have written a letter in protest against the ...

Interview: Suppressing Teachers’ Protests Would be a “Great Risk” for Iran’s Government

Interview: Suppressing Teachers’ Protests Would be a “Great Risk” for Iran’s Government

February 3, 2022

Sattar Rahmani, a former teacher and political prisoner in Iran, is an expert on the country's burgeoning teachers' rights movement. A grassroots teachers’ rights movement is gaining steam in Iran, where large street protests by teachers are increasingly sprouting ...

Five-Minute Trial Resulted in Narges Mohammadi’s Eight-Year Prison Sentence

Five-Minute Trial Resulted in Narges Mohammadi’s Eight-Year Prison Sentence

January 31, 2022

EU Calls for Rights Defender’s Release In a letter from Iran’s notoriously harsh Gharchak Prison, translated into English below by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), renowned rights defender Narges Mohammadi decried her 8.2-year prison sentence after a “five-minute trial” and “without the ...

Interview: “Serious Ramifications” for Women in Iran’s New Population Growth Law

Interview: “Serious Ramifications” for Women in Iran’s New Population Growth Law

January 20, 2022

Mina Khani is an author and active member of Iran's women's and civil rights movements. A new law ratified by Iran’s Parliament that's officially aimed at ...

Imprisoned Journalist Keyvan Samimi is Being Led to His Death

Imprisoned Journalist Keyvan Samimi is Being Led to His Death

January 11, 2022

The life of veteran journalist and political activist Keyvan Samimi is in danger as he continues to be unlawfully kept behind bars in Tehran’s Evin Prison despite state officials’ recommendations that he be released to receive treatment for serious health problems ...

Iranian Poet Baktash Abtin Dies After Being Arbitrarily Detained in Iran

Iranian Poet Baktash Abtin Dies After Being Arbitrarily Detained in Iran

January 8, 2022

Abtin, Jailed for Dissent, is Second Political Prisoner to Die in Iran in First Week of 2022 January 8, 2022 – The death of Iranian poet Baktash Abtin today in Tehran after contracting COVID-19 in Evin Prison is the result of the Iranian judiciary chief’s ...

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