New Conviction against Imprisoned Labor Leader Upheld to Keep Him Behind Bars
Jafar Azimzadeh Should Have Been Released, Instead Given Another 13 Months Now Activist Has Contracted COVID-19 in Iran’s Overcrowded ...
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Political Prisoners in Iran Contracting COVID-19 at Alarming Rate
Twelve Test Positive, Many Others with Symptoms, None Receiving Proper Treatment Prominent Labor Activists, Lawyer and Journalist Among Those Falling ...
Strikes Break Out in Iran’s Critical Oil Industry Amid Continuing Labor Unrest
New Fact Sheet Highlights Widespread Rights Abuses, Protests Likely to Continue August 4, 2020—With workers in Iran’s critical oil refining, ...
Death Sentences for Five Men Upheld Despite Allegations of Torture, False Confessions
Evidence Contradicting Guilt Ignored in Effort to Cover Up Security Forces’ Culpability July 31, 2020—Death sentences ...
UN Press Release: Bachelet Alarmed by Threats against Prominent Iranian NGO
Farsi Version (PDF) GENEVA (30 July 2020) – The UN High Commissioner ...
Judiciary Blocks Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Bank Account, Cutting Off Funds for Family
Husband of Imprisoned Human Rights Attorney Says Tactic Aimed at Silencing Family Reza Khandan: “They want to send ...
Australian Kylie Moore-Gilbert Moved to Notoriously Inhumane Prison in Iran as “Punishment”
Scholar Held at Gharchak Prison Alongside Violent Criminals July 28, 2020—The Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who has ...
Prominent Activist Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Protesting Downing of Ukrainian Passenger Plane
Bahareh Hedayat: Those 176 people will not come back to life; neither will those killed in November ...
UN Press Release: Experts Demand Urgent Release from Prison of Narges Mohammadi and other Arbitrarily Detained Prisoners
Farsi Version (PDF) GENEVA (22 July 2020) – Iran must release human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, reportedly ill with coronavirus symptoms, ...
Clip of Narges Mohammadi Being Tested for COVID-19 Manufactured, Says Husband
Video is Attempt to Counter Reports That Imprisoned Activist May Have Virus A clip broadcast on Iranian state TV ...
Activist’s Brother Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison, Collective Punishment of Families Continues in Iran
Alireza Alinejad Convicted on Sham National Security Charges and “Insulting” Supreme Leader July 16, 2020—Alireza Alinejad, the brother ...
UN Press Release: Experts Demand Iran Quash Death Sentences Against Protesters
Farsi version Farsi version (PDF) GENEVA (16 July 2020) – UN human rights experts today ...
Two Kurdish Political Prisoners Executed Despite “Serious Questions” in the Case
Both Executed without Notifying Their Families or Lawyers Politically Motivated Executions in Iran Continue to Increase Despite serious questions ...
Kurdish Political Prisoner Not Heard from for Weeks Since Announcing COVID Symptoms
Long Denied Medical Care, Family Fears for Well-being of Zeinab Jalalian Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian, who ...
Death Sentences for Three Protestors Confirmed by Supreme Court in Iran
Death Sentences for Three Protestors Confirmed by Supreme Court in Iran Unlawful and Cruel Sentences Reflect Increase in ...
Imprisoned Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi May Have COVID-19 Virus, Husband Says
Multiple Prisoners Showing Signs of Virus, No One Tested “Narges Mohammadi is being denied every basic right because ...
Atena Daemi Begins New Prison Sentence on Day She Was to Be Freed
Rights Activist Will Serve Two More Years in Prison After Serving Five More New Cases Opened Against ...
UN Condemns Iran’s Secret Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner
“I will pay the price of freedom with my life ...
French-Iranian Academic’s Five-year Prison Sentence Upheld on Appeal
French Government “Condemns” Unjust Decision Against Fariba Adelkhah The five-year prison sentence of French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, ...
Designer Amir Taghi Donates Net Proceeds from Mask Sales to Center for Human Rights in Iran
This July, Support CHRI by Purchasing Masks from Amir Taghi's Fashion Line June 30, 2020 – The Center ...
UN Must End “Sterile Exchanges” and Investigate Iran’s Lethal Violence against Protesters, Says Father of Slain Demonstrator
Letter Reveals New Details: 144 Bodies Secretly Held in Karaj Medical Examiner’s Office Alone June 29, 2020 — ...
Kurdish Prisoner, 27, Secretly Executed Despite Judge Agreeing He Was Innocent
Death Sentence Was Result Pressure from Revolutionary Guards The family of Hedayatollah (Hedayat) Abdollahpour...
Sepideh Qoliyan Refuses to Beg for Pardon, Goes Back to Prison
She Must Serve Five-year Sentence for Reporting on Peaceful Labor Rally Freelance reporter Sepideh Qoliyan, issued a ...
Prominent Teachers’ Rights Activist Facing Additional Years in Prison
Old Suspended Sentence Resurrected to Keep Esmail Abdi Behind Bars Imprisoned teachers’ rights activist Esmail Abdi, who has been ...
No Lawyers, No Justice: Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran for Defending Human Rights
At Least Nine Defense Attorneys Sentenced to Prison Since 2018 June 23, 2020 – Two years after the ...