Grave Concerns Over Further State Violence Ahead of “Blood Friday” Anniversary, When 100+ Protesters Were Killed *Update on September 30, 2023: Since yesterday, Iranian state security forces attempting to suppress anti-state protests in the city of Zahedan have injured at least 29 individuals—including eight children. ...
New Law Requires Teachers To Be “Evaluated” with Ideological Questions Every Year September 28, 2023 – A year-long state crackdown on civil society and dissent in Iran has been corroding the country’s education system, resulting in the arrests or detentions of at least 97 teachers over the past ...
International Community Should Call for an End to Gender Apartheid in Iran September 20, 2023 – On the anniversary week of the eruption of Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, sparked by the killing in state custody of a young women just three days after she was arrested for ...
Child Soldiers Used to Assist State Security Forces Relatives of Victims of State Violence, Activists Threatened to Refrain from Protesting Prisoners of Conscience Launch Solidarity Strikes, Women’s Prison Comes Under Attack September 16, 2023 – While Iranians around the world commemorated the anniversary of Iran's "Woman, Life, ...
At least 26 Professors Punished, Students Face Heightened Restrictions and Repression September 13, 2023 – One year after the inception of Iran's "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement, research conducted by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has revealed that dozens of university professors in Iran have been ...
More State Violence Feared as Anniversary of “Woman Life Freedom” Uprising Nears Intentional Killing of Unarmed Civilians Amounts to Crimes Against Humanity September 5, 2023 – A new report just released by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) and the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reveals shocking state ...
Another Political Prisoner’s Death Sparks Outrage Weeks Before Anniversary of Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” Uprising Citing Relative, Activist Says Javad Roohi was “Killed” September 1, 2023 – The death of Javad Roohi, aged 35, in Iranian state custody, following his arrest during anti-state protests and subsequent torture during interrogations, ...
Rights and Revolt: Three Lawyers Analyze the Legal Terrain of Iran's "Women Life Freedom" Movement In anticipation of the anniversary of Iran's transformative "Women, Life, Freedom" movement, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) hosted a webinar on September 12, 2023, featuring distinguished human rights ...
Authorities Seek to Quash Protest and Silence Justice-Seekers with Over 20 Arrests August 29, 2023 – The arrests of numerous family members of protesters who were killed by state security forces in Iran, just weeks before the one-year anniversary of the outbreak of the nationwide "Woman, Life, Freedom" ...
Religious Leaders of Minority Communities Are Arrested, Imprisoned, Defrocked for Supporting Protesters August 15, 2023 – Religious leaders of the Sunni Muslim communities in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province and in the Kurdish provinces of the country are being increasingly targeted by Islamic Republic authorities for persecution, arrest, ...
Saman Yasin: Latest Victim of Iran’s Use of Forced Psychiatric Care to Punish Political Prisoners July 24, 2023 – The forced psychiatric hospitalization of jailed rapper Saman Yasin in Iran shortly after he demanded due process and justice for his case highlights the Iranian government's continued weaponization of ...
Fact-Finding Mission on Iran Must Vigilantly Monitor, Document Associated Abuses UN Should Call on Islamic Republic to Repeal Compulsory Hijab Law July 18, 2023 – Women and girls in Iran face increased violence, arbitrary arrests and heightened discrimination as the Islamic Republic re-activates its forced-veiling police patrols, said the ...
The independent, international Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on the Islamic Republic of Iran today provided its first oral report to the UN Human Rights Council, in which ...
At least a dozen student groups from universities across Iran have issued strong statements of support for fellow students who are facing severe persecution at the Art University of Tehran for peacefully protesting forced-hijab rules and punishments on campus ...
Defiance Against Mandatory Hijab Grows as Iranian Government Seeks Stricter Measures Unveiled Women Assaulted, Blocked from Accessing Essential Services June 15, 2023 – In the wake of the "Woman Life Freedom" movement that ignited nine months ago, a new parliamentary bill has emerged, intensifying discrimination against women who choose not to ...
Police Kill Cousin at Gravesite of Nine-Year-Old Kian Pirfalak Thirty Relatives of Slain Street Protesters, Mostly Mothers, Detained June 12, 2023 – Iranian authorities’ killing of a young man, Pouya Molaeirad—amid a memorial for his nine-year-old cousin Kian Pirfalak, also believed to have been killed ...
University Officials Are Committing Major Rights Violations, Say Students At Least 720 Students Arrested Since Protests Began in September 2022 June 1, 2023 – University students and professors in Iran are facing arrests, banishments and expulsions in a renewed state crackdown on their right to peacefully criticize state policies, ...
UN Photo Press briefing by Mr. Javaid Rehman, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, one of the independent experts condemning Iran's execution of three men on 19 May, 2023, convicted of involvement in the killing ...
Authorities Threaten Students, Families and Teachers While Refusing to Provide Transparent Investigations School Girls and Staff Describe Being Forced to Stay in Affected Buildings While Authorities Dismiss Concerns April 24, 2023 – Five months after the first report of a chemical attack on a girls’ school in Iran, students across the country ...
Sources Close to Toomaj Urge International Community to Demand His Release Before Trial Begins Imprisoned Unjustly Since October 2022, in Urgent Need of Medical Care April 6, 2023 – The international community, including music and arts institutions as well as freedom of speech and expression organizations, should urgently call for the ...
More than a month has passed since the Iranian government issued a “pardon” for an unverified number of prisoners and detainees following the arrests of tens of thousands of people across the country amid anti-state protests that began in September 2022. As CHRI has noted, the announced pardons and ...
31 Lawyers and Doctors Call for Freedom of “Peace-Seeking Lawyer and Human Rights Activist” In a joint letter published today, 31 doctors and human rights lawyers from within Iran and France called on the Iranian government to release imprisoned human rights lawyer Mohammad Najafi, who has been ...
Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence Against Habib Farajollah Chaab After Show Trial Three Foreign Dissidents Have Been Abducted and Sentenced to Death in Iran Since 2019 March 13, 2022 – An Iranian-born Swedish citizen and dissident, Habib Farajollah Chaab, who was reportedly lured to Turkey by Islamic Republic agents ...
Arrests, Tear Gas Against Peaceful Protesters Reported by Eyewitnesses Government Dithers While Thousands of Schoolgirls Sickened Amid ongoing poison gas attacks reported at girls’ schools in dozens of cities in Iran, the Coordinating Council of the Iranian Teachers Trade Association (CCITTA) held nationwide protests in Iran on March 7, ...
March 9, 2023 – Iranian human rights lawyer and activist Mehrangiz Kar, a board member of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), received the Women’s Award for Justice and Advocacy from the New York City Bar Association on March 8, 2023, International ...