Iranian Poet Baktash Abtin Dies After Being Arbitrarily Detained in Iran
Abtin, Jailed for Dissent, is Second Political Prisoner to Die in Iran in First Week of ...
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Downed Passenger Plane: Iran’s Government Should Allow People to Freely Mourn, Pursue Justice
Families Call for Independent UN Investigation January 6, 2022 – While commemorating the second anniversary of the killing of 176 ...
Writer in Coma, Another Political Prisoner Dead after Unjust Imprisonment in Iran
Baktash Abtin (left) and Adel Kianpour (right). Concerns Mount for Prisoners Under Judiciary ...
UN Experts Condemn Secret Execution of Kurdish Prisoner in Iran
UN human rights experts today strongly condemned the execution in Iran of political prisoner Heydar ...
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Dear Friend and Supporter, While families around the world come together to celebrate the holiday season, we ask ...
UN Adopts Resolution Criticizing Iran’s Human Rights Abuses
On December 16, 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted draft resolution II, “Situation ...
Teachers Across Iran Protest for Fair Pay, Release of Jailed Colleagues
Teachers and supporters protested in the streets of more than 119 Iranian cities across Iran ...
Joint Statement: Free Arbitrarily Detained Right to Health Defenders in Iran
The following joint statement, signed by 23 international human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, calls on Iranian judicial authorities to release the activist Mehdi Mahmoudian and defense attorneys...
Khuzestan Kangaroo Court Sentences Two Protesters to Death, Life in Prison
Abbas and Mohsen Deris, both members of Iran’s ethnic Arab minority in Khuzestan Province, were arrested during the country’s violently repressed November 2019 protests, which broke out across the country that month and which saw an estimated 100 protesters killed ...
Isfahan: Instead of Crushing Protests, the Iranian Government Should Solve Its Water Crisis
The Iranian security and military forces’ violent crackdown on large protests in the city of Isfahan that broke out over severe state mismanagement of water resources is more evidence of the Ebrahim Raisi government’s policy of zero tolerance of public ...
Who Will Support the People of Iran?
Dear Friends and Supporters, The Iranian people have risked and lost their lives protesting the unjust policies of ...
UN Calls on Iran to Commute Death Sentences Against Child Offenders Upon Execution of Arman Abdolali
The United Nations has strongly condemned the execution of child offender Arman Abdolali in a press release republished below. ...
Victims of State Oppression Defy Iranian Government’s Denial of the Right to Mourn
The right to mourn is a human right, yet totalitarian regimes have long tried to deny this ...
Renowned Activist Narges Mohammadi Arrested on Anniversary of Historic Protests
Mother of Two Facing Flogging, Prison—Two Years After Completing 5.5-Year Sentence November 17, 2021 – The prominent rights ...
Iran Atrocities Tribunal on November 2019 Massacre: A Major Step towards Seeking Justice
International Community Must Finally Act with One Voice to Address these Crimes Evidence of the Islamic Republic’s Top ...
“They’re Torturing Me Without Touching Me” Says Unarmed Protester Shot by Iranian Security Forces
Two years after Iran’s massive November 2019 protests, the government has yet to respond to questions about its deadly use of force to suppress the demonstrations, which occurred in more than 200 cities, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured ...
Iran Rights Lawyer: Judicial Process is a “Means to Settle Political Scores”
One of the few remaining defense lawyers in Iran willing to take on human rights cases, ...
Two Years After Iran’s Massacre of Protesters, Officials Who Oversaw Killings Now Lead Government
No Accountability for Hundreds Killed, Thousands Injured and Arrested International Community Must Demand Independent Investigation and Justice for ...
Relatives of UK Hostages in Iran Spend Cold Night Outside Foreign Office
Two British citizens spent the night in frigid temperatures outside the Foreign Office in London on November 2, 2021, in a bid to gain freedom for their loved ones who are unjustly jailed in Iran ...
Iranian Political Prisoner Sets Himself on Fire to Be Heard
Mehdi Darini, a political prisoner in Tehran’s Evin Prison, set himself on fire on October 27, 2021, ...
Raisi Government to Launch Religious “Vice-Prevention” Courses, Paramilitary “Community Patrols”
Two months after the inauguration of ultra-conservative President Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s state-run Headquarters for the ...
UN Expert: Death Penalty Used as a Political Tool in Iran
In a speech to the UN General Assembly for his fourth annual report, Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation ...
Detained Lawyer of Iranian Instagram Star Tortured, Bit Off Tongue After Unidentified Injection
More Political Prisoners Could Die in Custody without Urgent International Action October 20, 2021 – A prominent defense ...
Four Baha’is Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Trying to Access Higher Education
Court Rulings Reveal Systematic Religious Discrimination The Baha’i faith community is one of the most severely persecuted religious ...
Human Rights Lawyers, Activist to Be Illegally Tried as Their Legal Team is Denied Case Files
Group was Arrested Ahead of Filing Lawsuit Against State Officials for Disastrous Pandemic Response Legal Teams ...