Comment by UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet on the Execution in Iran of Ruhollah Zam
Geneva, 14 December 2020 I am appalled at the execution in Iran on 12 December of Ruhollah Zam, activist ...
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Europe Says “No Business as Usual” with Iran After Hanging of Dissident Journalist
EU Countries Withdraw from Iran Business Forum in Protest Over Execution France Tweets Outrage over “Barbaric and Unacceptable” Execution of ...
Beautiful Holiday Gift: A Book of Illustrations and Essays on Human Rights
The book, published by the Center for Human Rights in Iran, highlights the days set aside by the international community for reflection and action on rights that are fundamental to the human condition—and the struggle for these rights in Iran. Days ...
Iranian Authorities Go After More Members of Writers Association
Poet Amin Moradi Detained, Arash Ganji Released on Bail Manufactured National Security Charges Used to Silence Free Expression In yet another ...
Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Being Returned to Gharchak Prison
Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh ...
Rights Groups Call on Supreme Leader to Release Sotoudeh, Stop Persecution of Lawyers
A group of human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...
Easy State Loans Prompting Surge in Child Marriages in Iran
Child Marriages Rise Four-Fold as Parents Marry Off Their Children to Receive Loans Easily available loans provided by ...
Iran Must Not Execute Ahmadreza Djalali
Execution Reported to Be Imminent, Wife Has Received Farewell Call Swedish-Iranian Doctor Was Convicted on Spurious Charges After ...
Top UN Experts: Iran Must Halt Execution of Ahmadreza Djalali
Execution of Swedish Doctor “would be a clear and serious violation” of law The UN issued a statement today calling for an immediate halt to the execution of Ahmadreza Djalali, which ...
Concern Grows Over German-Iranian Women Held in Solitary at Evin Prison
Authorities Refuse to Give Any Information Nearly Six Weeks After Her Arrest Except for one short phone call, ...
A Special Holiday Sale: Persian-Inspired Designs to Support Human Rights
Shop this sale online at: https://www.amirtaghi.com/day-of-giving Shop for your holiday gifts ...
Two Students Sentenced to Prison for Peaceful Protest During November 2019
Issued on Anniversary of Protests, Six-Year and One-Year Sentences May Be Warnings to Others 24-Year Prison Sentence Upheld ...
UN: Iran Must Quash Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Convictions and Ensure Her Permanent Release
Top Experts Say Her COVID-19 Diagnosis “Shows the real risks for those in detention in Iran” Top UN ...
State’s Online Schooling During COVID-19 Is a Privilege Only for the Well-Off in Iran
Teachers, Families and Students Struggle without Needed Technology in Iran’s Poorer Regions A new online schooling program created ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh Released on Temporary Leave from Prison
Human Rights Lawyer, Weakened from Lack of Proper Medical Care, Now Home in Tehran November 7, 2020—Imprisoned human ...
Sotoudeh’s Daughter Defends Herself in Court against Bogus Charges
Harassment of Family Members of Imprisoned Human Rights Attorney Intensifies As part of a continuing campaign of harassment ...
UN: Iran Must Conduct Independent Inquiry into Violence against Protests in November 2019
“Nasrin Sotoudeh and all other individuals arbitrarily detained must be immediately released” The UN’s top expert on Iran, ...
Book Review: Nasser Mohajer, Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988
Book Review Nasser Mohajer, Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988 Oneworld ...
Iran Moving Women Political Prisoners to Jails with “Common Criminals”
Sotoudeh and Three Other Activists Transferred Out of Evin’s Women’s Ward to Other Prisons As part of a ...
Two Honor Students, Violently Arrested, Still Detained Without Charge Six Months Later
Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi Under Pressure to Make Forced “Confessions” Student Groups: Allegations Unfounded, State Building False ...
More Baha’is Begin Serving Prison Sentences in Iran Simply for Their Beliefs
Farid Zirgi Moghaddam began serving his five-year sentence in the central prison in the city of Birjand, ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh Transferred to Notorious Gharchak Prison
Doctors Say Hospitalization Required, Instead Sotoudeh Moved to Iran’s Most Dangerous Prison Human Rights Lawyer’s Health in Serious ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Grave Deterioration in Health, Exposed to COVID-19 at Hospital
Doctors: Her Return to Prison Was “A deliberate attempt to put her life in danger” Family’s Repeated Requests for Medical ...
Prominent Iranian Writers Sent to Prison for Peaceful Dissent
Six-year and Three-year Sentences Begin for Senior Iranian Writers Association Members Lawyer: “These sentences are without legal and ...
UN Press Release: Citing COVID Risk, Bachelet Calls on Iran to Release Jailed Human Rights Defenders
Iran is “Using the criminal justice system as a tool to silence civil society” Farsi version Geneva (6 ...