Rajaee Shahr Prison Inmates Fed With Livestock Feed
A political prisoner in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Iran, labor activist Reza Shahabi, has revealed that prison authorities have been providing inmates with livestock ...
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Intelligence Ministry “Invites” Rouhani Campaign Manager to Stop Advocating for Sunni Muslim Rights
President Hassan Rouhani’s chief campaign manager in Iran’s Kurdistan Province was subjected to intimidation tactics while being questioned by Intelligence Ministry agents about his peaceful efforts to include Sunni Muslims in the government. A ...
Parastou Forouhar: Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Filed Charges Against Me Based on a Photograph
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry pressed charges against activist Parastou Forouhar based on a photo of one of her artworks that created a stir on social media, she told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on November ...
Iran’s Requirement for Internet Users to Verify Their Identity Would Further Erode Privacy Rights
Ongoing announcements by Iranian officials that every citizen in the country will soon be required to verify their identity to use the internet indicates that the state is moving towards further eroding individual privacy rights ...
83 Countries Vote to Pass UN Resolution Expressing “Serious Concern” over Human Rights in Iran
In an overwhelming sign of international support for human rights in Iran, 83 countries approved a resolution by the UN Third Committee today criticizing the state of human rights in the Islamic Republic ...
Tehran Governor Pleased With His Imaginary Tolerance of Peaceful Protests
The governor of Tehran Province, Mohammad Hossein Moghimi, has erroneously declared that since President Hassan Rouhani took office in 2013, protests in Iran’s capital city have been tolerated without the use of force ...
Former MP: Preventing Religious Minorities From Running in Iran’s Local Elections Violates Constitutional Rights
Passing legislation to restrict the rights of religious minorities in Iran would violate their rights as equal citizens, a prominent reformist former legislator told the Center for Human Rights in Iran. ...
Europe’s Silence on Human Rights in Iran Encourages Further Abuses
EU Parliamentary Delegation Going to Iran Should Use Its Leverage to Engage Iran on Human Rights November 14, 2017—European governments’ blithe disregard for mounting human rights violations in Iran ever since the signing of the nuclear deal ...
Labor Activist Without Kidneys Returned to Prison Against Medical Advice
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry and the chief prosecutor of Kurdistan Province have refused to accept a medical examiner’s recommendation to hospitalize imprisoned labor activist Mahmoud Salehi, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Salehi, who ...
Iran’s Telecommunications Minister Says He’s Looking Into Lifting the State Ban on Twitter
Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi’s Twitter page. Officials Used App For Years While Denying Access to Citizens ...
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Killed Parastou Forouhar’s Parents. Now It’s Going After Her.
An Iranian activist who has been seeking justice for her parents murdered by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in 1998, will soon be put on trial based on charges brought by ...
Three Baha’is Barred From University in Iran Sentenced to Five Years in Prison
Three young Iranians who complained to state officials after being denied university education for being followers of the Baha’i faith have been sentenced to five years in prison each, the Center for Human ...
Political Prisoners Urge International NGOs to Investigate Case of Inmate With Suspected Cancer
Three human rights activists held in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Iran have written a letter urging international rights groups to help fellow political prisoner Majid Assadi, who has been denied outside medical treatment despite severe health problems ...
IRGC Hackers Target Iranian Journalists Based Abroad With Malware Campaign
Hackers working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) targeted journalists based abroad with a malware campaign launched on November 6, 2017 ...
Imprisoned Labor Activist With No Kidneys Hospitalized After Being Forced to Sleep on Cell Floor
Imprisoned labor activist Mahmoud Salehi remains in intensive care three days after being rushed from a prison in Saqqez, in Iran’s Kurdistan Province, to a local hospital. ...
Iranian Poet Sentenced to Prison and Flogging For the Charge of “Insulting the Sacred”
Poet and civil rights activist Reza Ekvanyan has been sentenced to three years in prison and 40 lashes for the charges of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting the sacred” by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, presided by Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh ...
After 10 Years in Prison, Faith Leader Fariba Kamalabadi Says Baha’is Hope to Serve Iran
In her first interview since being released from Evin Prison on October 31, 2017, Baha’i faith leader Fariba Kamalabadi said Baha’is “love” Iran and want to “serve” their country. “There have been a lot of reports about the rights that have been denied to Baha’is,” Kamalabadi told the ...
Iranian State Officials Clash Over Allowing Religious Minorities in Local Elections
Suspended Zoroastrian Councilman at Center of Debate The head of Iran’s judiciary has sided with proponents of banning religious minorities from local elections while the Rouhani government has reiterated their rights as citizens under ...
Website Close to IRGC Says Judicial Attack Against BBC Persian is “Spoils of War”
A website serving as a mouthpiece for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has attempted to justify the criminal investigation launched by the judiciary against Iranian nationals working for BBC Persian, ...
Speak Out Against Iran’s Criminalization of Journalism
November 2, 2017 -- The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) today released a video about the criminal investigation by Iran's judiciary of 152 current and former staff members of BBC Persian. The defendants, all Iranian nationals based outside the country, recently discovered that the Iranian ...
Agents Interrupt Labor Activist’s Dialysis Treatment to Transport Him to Prison
Labor activist Mahmoud Salehi was detained by security agents on October 28, 2017, while undergoing dialysis at a hospital in the city of Saqqez, in Iran’s Kurdistan ...
UN experts call on Iran to stop intimidation of BBC staff
GENEVA (27 October 2017) – Civil and criminal proceedings by Iran against BBC Persian staff and contributors must be halted, two UN human rights specialists have said. “The Iranian authorities ...
Iranian Mother Sentenced to Prison for Demanding Justice For Slain Son
“Confessions” Obtained by Intelligence Ministry While Shahnaz Akmali Held in Solitary Confinement A court in Tehran has sentenced Shahnaz Akmali, the mother of a well-known victim of the ...
UN Special Rapporteur: Despite “Encouraging Signs,” Human Rights Deteriorating in Iran
Asma Jahangir, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In presenting her semi-annual 2017 report on Iran to the United ...
Iran Launches New Assault on Freedom of Expression With Mass Criminal Investigation of BBC Persian Staff
Popular BBC talkshow presenter Pooneh Ghoddoosi in the studio. BBC Persian Staff Appeal to UN on Iran’s “Unprecedented Collective Punishment of Journalists” Ongoing attempts by hardline officials in Iran ...