Dissidents Sentenced to Prison for “Insulting” Supreme Leader Facing Additional Charges
Dissidents who were sentenced to prison in Iran after calling for the resignation of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...
Dissidents who were sentenced to prison in Iran after calling for the resignation of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...
Iranian authorities are continuing to pressure the family of Borhan Mansournia, who died from a bullet wound in ...
Iranian government agents pressured at least one family member of Nasser Rezaie, a protester who died after being shot at a street demonstration in the city of Karaj on November 17, 2019, to falsely describe Nasser as a passerby who ...
For the first time, the complete text of Iran’s "Law to Protect the Rights of the Disabled" is available in English. A translation of the Persian-language law by the Center for Human ...
New Rule Strengthens Long-Standing Discrimination Against Persecuted Religious Minorities, Especially Bahai’s January 27, 2020 – In a new rule ...
University of Tehran personnel assisted a raid by state forces on a dormitory that resulted in at least eight students being arrested as they gathered for a protest, an eyewitness told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...
After putting blame on Iran’s Supreme Leader for the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane, new restrictions have been imposed on former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who has been under extra-judicial house arrest in Tehran for nearly nine years, the ...
Victim Was Caregiver of Mother, and Brother With Down Syndrome The family of Mohammad Hashamdar, who was ...
Growing Numbers of Bystanders Killed Reflects Security Forces’ Indiscriminate Firing at Civilians “God will not forgive this injustice...they were ...
Eyewitnesses Report Heavy Paramilitary Presence, Internet and Phone Disruptions Protesters were physically attacked and arrested at universities in Tehran ...
Addressing the Nuclear Deal is Not Enough; Rights Issues Are Central to Region’s Stability 28-Country Bloc Should Call on ...
Hundreds of protesters and bystanders were killed in Iran last November when armed forces waged a violent crackdown on widespread demonstrations. Yet Iranians ...
Iranian security forces used what appeared to be live ammunition and tear gas to repress protests in Tehran ...
January 11, 2020 – The Iranian people should be allowed to exercise their constitutional right to peaceful assembly ...
Iran's judiciary should free all women and men who were arbitrarily detained as state forces violently repressed street protests ...
A grieving mother who vowed to continue pursuing her slain son’s pursuit of freedom. A ...
Prisoner of Conscience Violently Transferred to Distant Prison for Demanding Justice for Slain Street Protesters By transferring prominent human rights activist ...
The grandmother of Pouya Bakhtiari, a 27-year-old man who was gunned down at a street protest on ...
Sixteen mothers whose children were killed amid violent state crackdowns on street protests have called for Iranians to ...
December 16, 2019 -- A coalition of international human rights organizations including the Center for Human ...
Fifteen-year-old Mohammad Dastankhah (also spelled Dadsetankhah) was walking home from high school in the city of Shiraz, Fars ...
Family of Bystander Killed During Protests Demands Answers Reports of the shooting deaths of bystanders not involved in the ...
Victim Hamid Taheri's Relatives Forced to Sign "Pledge of Silence" Hospital authorities in the city of Islamshahr, Tehran Province, ...
Violent state repression of protests in Iran is not unique, yet the lethal means government forces used to repress recent protests that broke out across dozens of cities reached new heights this year, resulting in ...