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Joint Letter: Biden Admin Urged to Prioritize Iranian Human Rights Concerns

Joint Letter: Biden Admin Urged to Prioritize Iranian Human Rights Concerns

May 10, 2021

May 10, 2021 The Honorable Joseph R. Biden The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Biden, We, the undersigned organizations, write to urge you to prioritize human rights as you shape your administration’s ...

Outdated U.S. Policies Are Helping Iran Censor Its Citizens (Commentary Published in Foreign Policy)

Outdated U.S. Policies Are Helping Iran Censor Its Citizens (Commentary Published in Foreign Policy)

May 7, 2021

*This op-ed was published by Foreign Policy Unclear guidelines and fear of sanctions are stopping tech companies ...

Two Brothers of Executed Iranian Wrestler Fear Same Fate

Two Brothers of Executed Iranian Wrestler Fear Same Fate

May 5, 2021

May 5, 2021 – Eight months after an Iranian wrestler was unjustly executed in Shiraz, his brothers ...

UN to Iran: Grave Concerns for Jailed Dissident Mohammad Nourizad

UN to Iran: Grave Concerns for Jailed Dissident Mohammad Nourizad

May 4, 2021

Mohammad Nourizad appears with a bloody face ...

Iran Isn’t Just a Nuclear File (Commentary published in Foreign Affairs)

Iran Isn’t Just a Nuclear File (Commentary published in Foreign Affairs)

May 2, 2021

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Labor Day in Iran: Listen to the People’s Demands for Basic Rights

Labor Day in Iran: Listen to the People’s Demands for Basic Rights

April 30, 2021

Unpaid Wages and Benefits, Unfair Wages Trigger Increasingly Organized Strikes Labor Activists Jailed Under Trumped-Up Charges April ...

Crippling Economic Hardship Enflames Iranian Protests

Crippling Economic Hardship Enflames Iranian Protests

April 28, 2021

Protests in Iran over high inflation and unpaid wages are spreading in Iran as the working ...

“Show Trials” of Dual Nationals Will Continue Until P5+1 Creates United Front Against Hostage-Taking

“Show Trials” of Dual Nationals Will Continue Until P5+1 Creates United Front Against Hostage-Taking

April 27, 2021

April 27, 2021 – World powers negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program should present a ...

New Report: Lack of Access to Tech Products Blocks Internet Freedom in Iran

New Report: Lack of Access to Tech Products Blocks Internet Freedom in Iran

April 26, 2021

Biden Administration, Companies Can Support Digital Rights without Lifting Any Sanctions April 26, 2021—A new policy briefing ...

US, EU Should Seek Release of Dual-National Hostages in Tandem with Nuclear Talks

US, EU Should Seek Release of Dual-National Hostages in Tandem with Nuclear Talks

April 20, 2021

April 20, 2021—The situation of dual-nationals and foreign persons taken hostage and imprisoned by the Iranian ...

Sharif University Honor Students Tortured, Detained in High-Security Ward

Sharif University Honor Students Tortured, Detained in High-Security Ward

April 19, 2021

A year after agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry arrested and tortured them, university students Ali ...

Walking in a Minefield Without a Map: The Life of an Iranian Human Rights Lawyer

Walking in a Minefield Without a Map: The Life of an Iranian Human Rights Lawyer

April 15, 2021

A defense attorney who has represented many detainees held on politically motivated charges in Iran explains what it’s like to work in a country where the state is actively working to eliminate his profession ...

Iranian Government Responsible to Protect Prisoners against Fourth Wave of COVID

Iranian Government Responsible to Protect Prisoners against Fourth Wave of COVID

April 14, 2021

Prisoners Trapped in Overcrowded, Unhygienic Prisons without Adequate Medical Care April 14, 2021—The start of a fourth ...

Referendum in Iran: A Constitutional Right, But Would Face Huge Obstacles

Referendum in Iran: A Constitutional Right, But Would Face Huge Obstacles

April 9, 2021

Holding a public referendum in Iran on the fate of the Islamic Republic is an idea that ...

Iran-China Pact Violates Constitution

Iran-China Pact Violates Constitution

April 1, 2021

The signing of a 25-year pact between the People’s Republic of China and the ...

Iran’s Intelligence Establishment is Spreading Propaganda Through Films and TV

Iran’s Intelligence Establishment is Spreading Propaganda Through Films and TV

March 31, 2021

Intelligence agencies in Iran are increasingly using state-funded entertainment productions to spread state propaganda and improve their image among the public, according to research by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Iranian ...

Interrogations in Iran’s Judicial Systems: Law vs. Reality

Interrogations in Iran’s Judicial Systems: Law vs. Reality

March 25, 2021

Iran’s judicial system allows detainees and prisoners to be subjected to harsh and inhuman interrogations without ...

Iran’s New Minimum Wage Set “Below Poverty Line”

Iran’s New Minimum Wage Set “Below Poverty Line”

March 24, 2021

Labor Ministry Calculations Ignore Actual Rate of Inflation At the end of every year in ...

Traditional New Year Furloughs and Other Privileges Denied to Iran’s Political Prisoners

Traditional New Year Furloughs and Other Privileges Denied to Iran’s Political Prisoners

March 24, 2021

Lawyer: “Humanity, in addition to the rule of law, has vanished” Political prisoners in Iran, long subjected to ...

UN to Iran: Ahmadreza Djalali Nearing Death in Solitary Confinement, Torture Must End Now

UN to Iran: Ahmadreza Djalali Nearing Death in Solitary Confinement, Torture Must End Now

March 19, 2021

Persian version (PDF) GENEVA, UN Press Release (18 March 2021) — UN human rights experts* today ...

U.S. Government, Companies Can Do More to Promote Internet Freedom in Iran

U.S. Government, Companies Can Do More to Promote Internet Freedom in Iran

March 17, 2021

New OFAC License for GitHub Highlights Shortcomings of General License D1 An Interview with Internet Freedom and Security Expert Amir Rashidi Key Points: Iranians are largely unable to use international communications tools and services ...

A Message of Hope and Strength to the People of Iran this Nowruz

A Message of Hope and Strength to the People of Iran this Nowruz

March 17, 2021

March 17, 2021—As Iranian families remember the beautiful traditions of Nowruz, the Persian New Year, we ask ...

“Art for Change” Prints by Shirin Neshat, Kour Pour, Arghavan Khosrav to Benefit Center for Human Rights in Iran

“Art for Change” Prints by Shirin Neshat, Kour Pour, Arghavan Khosrav to Benefit Center for Human Rights in Iran

March 15, 2021

Shirin Neshat film still ...

French National Benjamin Briere Tried on National Security Charges in Iran

French National Benjamin Briere Tried on National Security Charges in Iran

March 15, 2021

Ten months after being arrested in Iran, a French national has been charged ...

Iranian Courts are Unlawfully Banishing Political Prisoners Into “Prison Exile”

Iranian Courts are Unlawfully Banishing Political Prisoners Into “Prison Exile”

March 12, 2021

*Editor's Note: Transfers that occurred after this article was published are listed at the bottom. Iran’s judicial system has ...

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Latest News

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  • UNICEF’s Silence on Iran: Nobel Laureate Demands Action on Children’s Rights Abuses
    UNICEF’s Silence on Iran: Nobel Laureate Demands Action on Children’s Rights Abuses
    June 11, 2025
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    Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested
    June 4, 2025
  • Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners
    Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners
    May 27, 2025
  • Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
    Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
    May 20, 2025
  • Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers
    Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers
    May 14, 2025
  • ‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist
    ‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist
    May 5, 2025
  • Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions
    Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions
    April 30, 2025
  • Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People
    Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People
    April 24, 2025
  • Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency
    Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency
    April 16, 2025
  • EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals
    EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals
    April 14, 2025
  • Five More Political Prisoners Hanged in Iran as Use of Death Penalty to Crush Dissent Surges
    Five More Political Prisoners Hanged in Iran as Use of Death Penalty to Crush Dissent Surges
    April 9, 2025
  • Landmark Resolution: UN Human Rights Council Expands Fact-Finding Mission on Iran
    Landmark Resolution: UN Human Rights Council Expands Fact-Finding Mission on Iran
    April 3, 2025
  • Imprisonment of Christians Jumps Six-Fold in Iran as Persecution Intensifies
    Imprisonment of Christians Jumps Six-Fold in Iran as Persecution Intensifies
    April 1, 2025
  • Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers
    Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers
    March 18, 2025
  • 43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Renew Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies
    43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Renew Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies
    March 18, 2025
  • UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation
    UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation
    March 14, 2025
  • Iranian Authorities Are Killing Prisoners by Denying Lifesaving Medical Care
    Iranian Authorities Are Killing Prisoners by Denying Lifesaving Medical Care
    March 12, 2025
  • Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures
    Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures
    March 6, 2025
  • Joint Statement: Stop the Imminent Deportation of Activist Nahid Modaressi to Iran
    Joint Statement: Stop the Imminent Deportation of Activist Nahid Modaressi to Iran
    February 25, 2025
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