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No Lawyers, No Justice: Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran for Defending Human Rights

No Lawyers, No Justice: Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran for Defending Human Rights

June 23, 2020

At Least Nine Defense Attorneys Sentenced to Prison Since 2018 June 23, 2020 – Two years after the prominent human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested and imprisoned in Tehran, the Iranian judiciary’s ...

Mother of Jailed Anti-Compulsory Hijab Activist Calls for Legal Reform

Mother of Jailed Anti-Compulsory Hijab Activist Calls for Legal Reform

June 5, 2020

*Update: On November 9, 2020, Branch 28 of the Supreme Court rejected a petition by Kord-Afshari’s lawyer, Hosein Taj, to review the 24-year prison sentence against Saba Kord-Afshari for her peaceful campaign against compulsory hijab. Based on Article ...

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 ...

“They Aimed at My Son’s Head”: Report Reveals Carnage in Crushed Iran Protests

“They Aimed at My Son’s Head”: Report Reveals Carnage in Crushed Iran Protests

May 26, 2020

May 27, 2020 — A new report released today by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) documents the extraordinary state violence that was used against protesters in Iran during the ...

Prison, Flogging for Protesters Who Gathered to Commemorate Victims of Plane Crash 

Prison, Flogging for Protesters Who Gathered to Commemorate Victims of Plane Crash 

May 21, 2020

“The trial did not last even a minute,” Legal Counsel Denied Civil rights activist Shora Fekri was taken to prison in Amol, Mazandaran Province, on May 18, 2020, to begin serving a five-month ...

Human Rights Lawyer Sentenced to Prison Without Access to Counsel

Human Rights Lawyer Sentenced to Prison Without Access to Counsel

May 11, 2020

Four Defense Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran in Less Than Two Years Human rights attorney Payam Derafshan was denied access to counsel while being tried for the charge of “insulting the supreme leader,” ...

Novelist Brother of “Iran’s Bob Dylan” Loses Appeal Against Politically Motivated Prison Sentence

Novelist Brother of “Iran’s Bob Dylan” Loses Appeal Against Politically Motivated Prison Sentence

April 28, 2020

Iranian Judiciary Contiguously Targeting Dissidents’ Family Members Iran’s Appeals Court upheld a one-year prison sentence against novelist Hamid Namjoo for the content of his writings and because he published work abroad, ...

Masih Alinejad: My Brother is Facing Prison Time for Being Related to Me

Masih Alinejad: My Brother is Facing Prison Time for Being Related to Me

April 24, 2020

The brother of activist Masih Alinejad is being prosecuted in Tehran to “pressure” her to end her campaign against the compulsory hijab, she said in a press release calling for his release.  A ...

Detained Teen Instagram Star With COVID-19 on Ventilator After Judge Refused to Release Her

Detained Teen Instagram Star With COVID-19 on Ventilator After Judge Refused to Release Her

April 16, 2020

Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, Who Could Authorize Her Release, Has Been Unreachable Detained teenage Instagram celebrity Fatemeh Khishvand is currently on a ventilator at Sina Hospital in Tehran after contracting COVID-19 in state custody, ...

Political Prisoner with COVID-19 Symptoms Denied Treatment, Transferred to Solitary Confinement

Political Prisoner with COVID-19 Symptoms Denied Treatment, Transferred to Solitary Confinement

April 8, 2020

Peaceful prisoner of conscience Mohammad Hossein Sepehri, who was imprisoned in the Iranian city of Mashhad after signing an open letter calling on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to resign, was denied hospital treatment and transferred to solitary confinement without his medication after exhibiting COVID-19 ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh: “If We’re Going to Die, Let Us Be by Our Families’ Sides”

Nasrin Sotoudeh: “If We’re Going to Die, Let Us Be by Our Families’ Sides”

March 17, 2020

Jailed Attorney, Fellow Political Prisoners Hunger Strike for Freedom Amid COVID-19 Outbreak March 17, 2020 -- At least three political activists in Tehran’s Evin Prison have joined prominent imprisoned human rights attorney ...

Several Detained, Summoned in Iran After Publicly Criticizing State’s COVID-19 Response

Several Detained, Summoned in Iran After Publicly Criticizing State’s COVID-19 Response

March 13, 2020

Members of civil society in Iran including a city councilman, soccer player, and journalists were detained or summoned for questioning after criticizing the Iranian government’s management of the country’s widening COVID-19 outbreak ...

“They Want to Create Fear” More Artists Summoned to Prison Amid Iran’s Rising COVID-19 Death Toll

“They Want to Create Fear” More Artists Summoned to Prison Amid Iran’s Rising COVID-19 Death Toll

March 12, 2020

In addition to renowned filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, three members of the Iranian Writers Association (IWA)—Baktash Abtin, Reza Khandan Mahabadi and Keyvan Bajan—have been summoned to prison as other inmates are ...

UN Expert Alarmed by Detention Conditions in the Wake of Recent Protests

UN Expert Alarmed by Detention Conditions in the Wake of Recent Protests

March 10, 2020

UN Press Release GENEVA (9 March 2020) – Individuals detained in Iranian detention facilities are suffering from serious human rights violations and the situation of those arrested during the November ...

Families Urge Judiciary Chief to Include Jailed Conservationists In Mass Prisoner Release

Families Urge Judiciary Chief to Include Jailed Conservationists In Mass Prisoner Release

March 5, 2020

56,000 Temporarily Freed from Iran's Overcrowded Prisons Amid Coronavirus Outbreak The families of eight conservationists imprisoned in Iran on trumped-up charges have called on Iranian Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi to release them on furlough along ...

Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Renowned Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof Summoned to Prison

Amid Coronavirus Outbreak, Renowned Filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof Summoned to Prison

March 4, 2020

Rasoulof’s Film About Iran’s Death Penalty Recently Won Top Prize at Berlin Film Festival March 4, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) strongly condemns the Iranian judiciary’s decision to put ...

Coronavirus in Iran: Health Experts Question Officially Reported Infection Numbers

Coronavirus in Iran: Health Experts Question Officially Reported Infection Numbers

February 26, 2020

Grave Concerns Mounting Amid Rising Death Toll, Fears of Regional Outbreak February 26, 2020 -- Amid a rising death toll in Iran from the COVID-19 coronavirus strain, public health experts are suggesting that the number ...

Evin Prison Sees Inmate Transfers, Construction as Authorities Prep for More Protest Crackdowns

Evin Prison Sees Inmate Transfers, Construction as Authorities Prep for More Protest Crackdowns

February 13, 2020

Iranian authorities have transferred a large number of inmates out of Evin Prison in Tehran—notorious for holding political prisoners—to other prisons and implemented further security measures in Evin in preparation for more sudden ...

Iran Moves to Silence Journalists, Activists Ahead of Parliamentary Elections

Iran Moves to Silence Journalists, Activists Ahead of Parliamentary Elections

February 11, 2020

Tehran-Based Reporter: “They Want Us to Stop Writing” February 11, 2020 – The intelligence arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is summoning journalists, raiding their homes and confiscating their electronic devices ...

Detained Protestors in Iran: Beaten, Tortured, Forced to “Confess”

Detained Protestors in Iran: Beaten, Tortured, Forced to “Confess”

February 10, 2020

February 10, 2020 – Detainees held in Iran since the November 2019 street protests—including juveniles—are being beaten, forced to make self-incriminating statements and held in inhumane incarceration conditions, and their families are ...

Dissidents Sentenced to Prison for “Insulting” Supreme Leader Facing Additional Charges

Dissidents Sentenced to Prison for “Insulting” Supreme Leader Facing Additional Charges

February 5, 2020

Dissidents who were sentenced to prison in Iran after calling for the resignation of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei are facing additional charges, an attorney representing some of them told the Center for ...

Slain Protester’s Family Refuses to Give Iranian Government “Propaganda Coup”

Slain Protester’s Family Refuses to Give Iranian Government “Propaganda Coup”

February 3, 2020

Iranian authorities are continuing to pressure the family of Borhan Mansournia, who died from a bullet wound in the back when state forces violently cracked down on the street protest ...

Brother of Killed Protester “Refused” Pressure to Absolve Iranian Government on State TV

Brother of Killed Protester “Refused” Pressure to Absolve Iranian Government on State TV

January 30, 2020

Iranian government agents pressured at least one family member of Nasser Rezaie, a protester who died after being shot at a street demonstration in the city of Karaj on November 17, 2019, to falsely describe Nasser as a passerby who was shot by “rebels,” his brother told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...

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 ...

“Feverish Climate” at Tehran University After Students Arrested in Dormitory Raid

“Feverish Climate” at Tehran University After Students Arrested in Dormitory Raid

January 18, 2020

University of Tehran personnel assisted a raid by state forces on a dormitory that resulted in at least eight students being arrested as they gathered for a protest, an eyewitness told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...

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