International Women’s Day: Women in Iran are Leading the Struggle for Human Rights
Despite Abuses and Discrimination, Women Fight for Justice, Equality, and Rights for All March 7, 2022 – On ...
Issues
Denial of Medical Treatment for Ailing Political Prisoners in Iran Aimed at Crushing Dissent
Continued Refusal to Provide Proper Medical Care Risks More Prisoner Deaths March 3, 2022 - The continued denial ...
Joint Statement: Free Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer Mohammad Najafi in Iran
Lawyer Unlawfully Imprisoned for His Defense of Basic Civil and Political Liberties March 3, 2022 – The lawyer Mohammad ...
UN Human Rights Experts: New Internet Bill Brings Iran Closer to “Digital Wall”
UN human rights experts have urged the Iranian government to abandon a proposed bill that would drastically increase the authorities’ ability to censor and surveil activity on the internet. "This ...
Bill Increasing Surveillance and Censorship of Internet Moves Forward in Iran
Authorities’ Efforts to Crush Dissent Will Also Crush Livelihoods February 24, 2022 - A proposed bill ...
Rights Groups: Human Rights Sanctions on Iran Must Not Be Lifted to Reach Nuclear Deal
President Raisi Should Remain Sanctioned for His Crimes Against Humanity February 18, 2022 - In a joint ...
Crackdown on Labor Activists in Iran
Amid an intensifying campaign of political repression in Iran, state authorities have been summoning, detaining, ...
Decapitated Child Bride Highlights Iran’s Lack of Protections for Girls and Women
Honor Killings Will Continue as Long as Iran’s Laws Protects Killers Widespread Practice of Child Marriage Means ...
100+ Academics Across Globe Sign Letter Protesting Firing of Professors in Iran
Professors “Unjustly Dismissed” from Iranian Institutions for “Political Reasons” Universities Not Escaping Intensifying Repression in Islamic Republic In ...
Another Foreign Citizen Nabbed by Iran Now Faces Possible Execution
Political Dissident Jamshid Sharmahd Is Unable to Defend Himself in Iranian Judicial System World Must Speak Out ...
Leaked Iranian State Document: Expect Protests to Get Bigger and More Frequent
High-Level Intelligence Official: “Social Discontent Has Increased About 300 Percent” A top-secret Iranian state document ...
Interview: Suppressing Teachers’ Protests Would be a “Great Risk” for Iran’s Government
Sattar Rahmani, a former teacher and political prisoner in ...
Five-Minute Trial Resulted in Narges Mohammadi’s Eight-Year Prison Sentence
EU Calls for Rights Defender’s Release In a letter from Iran’s notoriously harsh Gharchak Prison, translated into English ...
Iran’s Violent Crushing of Protests Followed by Growth of Security State
IRGC Commanders Appointed as Governor-Generals to 10 of Iran’s 31 Provinces “People’s tolerance level has decreased ...
Hostage Benjamin Briere’s “Price” Raised as Judge Imposes Eight-Year Prison Term
Iran “Toying” with Foreign and Dual Nationals Amid Nuclear Talks to Extract Concessions Lawyer: Briere's Arbitrarily Increased Sentence ...
Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Sentenced to Another Eight Years in Prison
Situation of Political Prisoners Worsens as Iranian Government’s Assault on Peaceful Dissent Intensifies Activists, Lawyers, Dissidents being Kept ...
New Interrogations at Iran’s Airports, Jailing of Dual Citizens Challenge Officials’ Calls for Expatriates to Return
Reports of security agents at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport singling out travelers returning from European destinations ...
UN Decries Imminent Execution of Juvenile Offender Hossein Shahbazi in Iran
Session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Another juvenile offender, Hossein Shahbazi, is in imminent danger of being executed in Iran after being sentenced ...
Imprisoned Journalist Keyvan Samimi is Being Led to His Death
The life of veteran journalist and political activist Keyvan Samimi is in danger as he continues to be unlawfully kept behind bars in Tehran’s Evin Prison despite state officials’ recommendations that he be released to receive treatment for serious health ...
Families of Victims in Downed Passenger Plane Refuse Iranian Compensation: “No Justice Without the Truth”
Iranian President Ebrahim “Raisi has called for payment of compensation because most of the families have turned it down,” Soleimani told CHRI. “For them, the most important issue is discovering the truth and implementing justice” ...
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 ...
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 ...
Writer in Coma, Another Political Prisoner Dead after Unjust Imprisonment in Iran
Baktash Abtin (left) and Adel Kianpour (right). Concerns Mount for Prisoners ...
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 ...