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Civil Rights Defender Farhad Meysami at Risk of Death in Iranian Prison

Civil Rights Defender Farhad Meysami at Risk of Death in Iranian Prison

February 2, 2023

Meysami Hunger-Striking to Demand End to Political Executions and Compulsory Hijab February 2, 2023 – The UN and international human rights organizations should urgently demand that the Iranian judiciary release political prisoner Farhad Meysami, a civil and women's rights defender whose life is in danger, said ...

Jailed Iranian Director Jafar Panahi Hunger Strikes Against “Hostage-Taking”

Jailed Iranian Director Jafar Panahi Hunger Strikes Against “Hostage-Taking”

February 2, 2023

In an open letter, renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi has announced the beginning of his hunger strike in Tehran's Evin Prison until he is freed from his illegal imprisonment. "I firmly declare that in protest against the unlawful and inhumane behavior of the judicial and security apparatus and this particular hostage-taking, ...

Children’s Rights Advocates, Mainly Women, Targeted in Crackdown on Anti-State Protests in Iran

Children’s Rights Advocates, Mainly Women, Targeted in Crackdown on Anti-State Protests in Iran

February 1, 2023

Women Aiding Vulnerable Children Detained As State Broadens Efforts to Crush Movement for Change February 1, 2023 – Women who have devoted their lives to aiding underprivileged and at-risk youth in Iran have come under increasing attack by the Iranian government in its violent ...

Iran: Families of Detained and Killed Protesters Beaten, Threatened to Stay Silent

Iran: Families of Detained and Killed Protesters Beaten, Threatened to Stay Silent

January 25, 2023

Attorneys Jailed to Prevent Them From Defending Protesters and Their Families   January 25, 2023 – Four months into the Islamic Republic’s violent suppression of anti-state protests, Iranian authorities are beating, firing and threatening the families of detained and killed protesters to force them to remain ...

Iran Protests: At Least 44 Defense Attorneys Arrested Since September

Iran Protests: At Least 44 Defense Attorneys Arrested Since September

January 10, 2023

Crackdown Aimed at Destroying Any Chance of Fair Trials for Protesters Detainees Forced to Use Court-Appointed Lawyers January 10, 2023 – While the Islamic Republic has been gunning down and executing street protesters, it has also been arresting defense attorneys—at least 44 since September—to block their ability to ...

Iran: Death Sentences and Imprisonment Used to Crush Dissent in Film and Theatre Industries

Iran: Death Sentences and Imprisonment Used to Crush Dissent in Film and Theatre Industries

December 20, 2022

26-Year-Old Actor Sentenced to Death, More Than 100 Industry Members Imprisoned December 20, 2022 – The sentencing of theater actor Hossein Mohammadi to death in Iran after a show trial, and the arbitrary detentions of more than 100 film and theatre industry workers including superstar ...

Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women

Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women

December 14, 2022

Two Major UN Votes Signal World’s Revulsion at Islamic Republic’s Violence against Protesters December 14, 2022 – The vote today by the UN Economic and Social Council to remove the Islamic Republic of Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women—following a vote in November by the UN Human ...

Joint Statement: 21 Iranian Human Rights Lawyers Urge UN to Stop Child Killings in Iran

Joint Statement: 21 Iranian Human Rights Lawyers Urge UN to Stop Child Killings in Iran

November 21, 2022

In a joint statement obtained by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) and translated into English, 21 Iranian human rights lawyers have called on UN officials and agencies to take immediate steps to end child killings in Iran, where at least 50 children have been killed ...

Prominent Iranian Human Rights Lawyers’ Criticize Islamic Republic in Joint Statement

Prominent Iranian Human Rights Lawyers’ Criticize Islamic Republic in Joint Statement

November 2, 2022

In a joint statement obtained by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) and translated into English below, 40 Iranian human rights lawyers from inside and outside the country have expressed strong support for Iran's growing, anti-state movement, arguing that the "Iranian people’s uprising is for ...

World Must Warn Iran Against Death Sentences for Protesters in Upcoming Mass Trials

World Must Warn Iran Against Death Sentences for Protesters in Upcoming Mass Trials

November 2, 2022

Charges Carrying Possible Death Sentence Already Being Issued November 2, 2022 – With mass public trials for protesters recently announced in Iran, and charges already beginning to be issued that could carry a death sentence, it is urgent that the international community forcefully warn the Iranian ...

Witch Hunt in Iran: Grave Concerns for Journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi

Witch Hunt in Iran: Grave Concerns for Journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi

November 1, 2022

Unable to Crush Protests, State Resorts to Smearing Female Reporters with Sham Accusations November 1, 2022 – The Iranian government’s fabricated accusations against two unlawfully detained female journalists, Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, who face severe punishments without access to due process, are part of the ...

Iran Protests: Doctors Treating Wounded Protesters Face Deadly State Violence

Iran Protests: Doctors Treating Wounded Protesters Face Deadly State Violence

October 31, 2022

One Female Doctor Reportedly Killed, At Least Six Arrested October 31, 2022 – Reports of at least one doctor being killed by state security forces and at least six others being arbitrarily arrested at peaceful protests in Tehran and Mashhad indicate Iran’s medical community is facing deadly state violence as the ...

Face-Off in Iran: State Security Forces Attack Protesters on Day of Mourning for Mahsa Amini

Face-Off in Iran: State Security Forces Attack Protesters on Day of Mourning for Mahsa Amini

October 26, 2022

UN Special Rapporteurs Echo Calls by Rights Groups for Action by Human Rights Council  Tehran Medical Council President, Deputy Resign One Day After Doctors Release Statement Condemning State Repression Peaceful protesters faced off with heavily armed state security forces in dozens of cities across ...

Iran Protests: State Trying to Crush Dissent Through More Killings, Imprisonment

Iran Protests: State Trying to Crush Dissent Through More Killings, Imprisonment

October 24, 2022

Prominent Teachers, Labor Leaders Slapped with Jail Time as 500+ Face Sham Charges October 24, 2022 – The sentencing of prominent teachers and labor rights advocates to prison in Iran amid a violent crackdown on protests that has seen hundreds killed, including children, more than 12,000 ...

Hero Climber Elnaz Rekabi Deserves Support of Climbing Organizations, International Community

Hero Climber Elnaz Rekabi Deserves Support of Climbing Organizations, International Community

October 19, 2022

International Federation of Sport Climbing Should Suspend Islamic Republic’s Membership Serious Concerns for Rekabi, Under Extreme Pressure by State Since Competing without Hijab October 19, 2022 – Climbing organizations and professionals, as well as the international community, should stand with professional climber Elnaz Rekabi, who is under ...

Joint Statement: 43 Rights Groups Call for Urgent Action on Iran at UN Human Rights Council

Joint Statement: 43 Rights Groups Call for Urgent Action on Iran at UN Human Rights Council

October 17, 2022

Forty-three human rights groups, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), today urged the UN Human Rights Council to urgently hold a special session that should establish an independent mechanism with investigative, reporting and accountability functions to address the most serious ...

Breaking: Iran’s Enflamed Evin Prison Provokes Extreme Concerns

Breaking: Iran’s Enflamed Evin Prison Provokes Extreme Concerns

October 15, 2022

Defenseless Prisoners Barricaded Inside Embattled Prison Editor's update on Oct. 15, 7:01pm EST: A source in Tehran told CHRI that people were protesting near Evin Prison as of 2:25 AM, October 16 Tehran time. The source who request ...

Iran Protests: Human Rights Lawyers Arrested, Teargassed

Iran Protests: Human Rights Lawyers Arrested, Teargassed

October 12, 2022

Unmarked Vans Rounded Up Dozens of Peaceful Protesters Outside Iranian Bar Association October 12, 2022 – At least three lawyers were among dozens of individuals who were arrested today outside the Iranian Bar Association in Tehran amid anti-state protests that continued in the capital and several ...

Joint Letter: Human Rights Groups Urge Biden to Help Protect Iran’s Protesters

Joint Letter: Human Rights Groups Urge Biden to Help Protect Iran’s Protesters

October 6, 2022

The following letter, signed by 21 human rights groups including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, was sent on October 6, 2022, to the offices of U.S. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and the U.S. Representative to the UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Download a PDF of the letter ...

Iran Protests: Scores of Civil Society Members Detained “Preventatively”

Iran Protests: Scores of Civil Society Members Detained “Preventatively”

October 6, 2022

 Grave Concerns for Torture, Killings of Political Prisoners Amid Mass Arrests  October 6, 2022 – Less than three weeks after protests erupted across Iran, at least 1,200 people have been arrested, including at least 92 members of civil society who were not arrested at street protests, but instead ...

Students Violently Attacked, Arrested by Security Forces as Protests in Iran Spread

Students Violently Attacked, Arrested by Security Forces as Protests in Iran Spread

October 3, 2022

Students Trapped, Beaten, Tear Gassed, Taken to Unknown Locations  Fears of Worsening Violence as Protests Spread to Over 100 Universities October 3, 2022—On Sunday night, October 2, 2022, after 15 days of nationwide protests in Iran following the death in state custody of 22-year-old Mahsa ...

At least 25 Reporters and Journalists Among Hundreds Detained Amid Iran Protests

At least 25 Reporters and Journalists Among Hundreds Detained Amid Iran Protests

September 30, 2022

Minimum Total of At Least 37 Members of the Press Currently Detained Nationwide September 30, 2022 – At least 25 reporters and journalists are among the hundreds of people who’ve been arrested by state security forces since protests erupted throughout Iran on September 16, 2022, the Center ...

Iran Protests: Lawyers Call for Fact-Finding Commission, Referendum

Iran Protests: Lawyers Call for Fact-Finding Commission, Referendum

September 26, 2022

A group of prominent Iranian lawyers has called for international action amid nationwide protests that erupted in Iran on September 16, 2022, following the death in state custody of Mahsa Amini, and which have been centered around advancing social and political change. The lawyers’ statement comes ...

Iran Protests: Grave Concerns for Extreme State Violence Amid Rising Death Toll

Iran Protests: Grave Concerns for Extreme State Violence Amid Rising Death Toll

September 21, 2022

World Leaders Must Call on Iranian Officials to Immediately Cease Use of Lethal Force, Allow Peaceful Protest September 21, 2022 – On the sixth day of protests in Iran that have followed the death in state custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, the Center for Human Rights ...

Iran’s Raisi to Freely Address UNGA While Crushing Rights and Freedoms at Home

Iran’s Raisi to Freely Address UNGA While Crushing Rights and Freedoms at Home

September 19, 2022

Mahsa Amini’s Death in State Custody Should be Investigated as Murder World Must Condemn Violent Repression of Protests and Civil Society September 19, 2022 – President Ebrahim Raisi will use his platform at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on September 21 to freely address world leaders at ...

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