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Iranian Women Artists Showcased in Upcoming Exhibit Curated by Shirin Neshat

Iranian Women Artists Showcased in Upcoming Exhibit Curated by Shirin Neshat

October 14, 2019

Exhibition Extended Until December 14 October 14, 2019 - The Center for Human Rights in Iran is honored to announce an upcoming exhibition of 13 contemporary Iranian women artists in New ...

Death Penalty-Carrying Charge Dropped Against Four Conservationists After Supreme Leader Intervened

Death Penalty-Carrying Charge Dropped Against Four Conservationists After Supreme Leader Intervened

October 14, 2019

The charge of “corruption on earth,” which can lead to the death penalty under Iranian law, has been dropped against four ...

Women Football Fans Decry Restrictions: “Why Didn’t They Let Us All In?”

Women Football Fans Decry Restrictions: “Why Didn’t They Let Us All In?”

October 11, 2019

Women's Tickets Capped at 4,000 Out of 75,000 The soccer match between Iran and Cambodia on October 10, 2019, in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium included the historic presence of thousands of women. However, ...

Iran Must Confront Its Child Protection Crisis

Iran Must Confront Its Child Protection Crisis

October 11, 2019

On the International Day of the Girl Child, All States Urged to Address Needs of Girl Children Child Marriage, Lack of Protection against Abuse, Juvenile Executions Key Issues in Iran October ...

Appeals Court to Rule on Satirist’s Case Without Hearing His Defense

Appeals Court to Rule on Satirist’s Case Without Hearing His Defense

October 9, 2019

Iran’s Appeals Court, which met last week to review satirist Keyomars Marzban’s appeal against a ...

Iran Blocks Domestic Hosting Companies From Servicing Banned Websites

Iran Blocks Domestic Hosting Companies From Servicing Banned Websites

October 8, 2019

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Education For All

Education For All

October 8, 2019

Millions of children with disabilities in Iran are being denied education. Center for Human Rights in Iran & Human Rights Watch interviewed dozens of people in Iran with kids who’ve been denied school enrollment because they’ve been unjustly labeled ...

Children Born to Non-Iranian Fathers Win Right to File for Citizenship—With a Catch

Children Born to Non-Iranian Fathers Win Right to File for Citizenship—With a Catch

October 7, 2019

Amendment Authorizes Intelligence Agencies to Investigate Applicants’ Parents Legislation granting a citizenship application option to ...

Sepideh Qoliyan Said She Was Tortured in Iran, Now She’s Serving an 18-Year Prison Sentence

Sepideh Qoliyan Said She Was Tortured in Iran, Now She’s Serving an 18-Year Prison Sentence

October 7, 2019

Female Activist Described Inhumane Conditions of Detention in Video Statement  *Warning: This article contains content that could ...

Children With Disabilities in Iran Denied Access to Inclusive Education

Children With Disabilities in Iran Denied Access to Inclusive Education

October 2, 2019

Iran's Government Should Allow Kids With Disabilities to Be Educated Alongside Their Peers  October 2, 2019 – Children with ...

Mother of Slain Son to Serve One Year in Prison for Seeking Justice

Mother of Slain Son to Serve One Year in Prison for Seeking Justice

October 2, 2019

Appeals Court Upholds Sentence against Shahnaz Akmali Shahnaz Akmali, the mother of a protester who was killed in a ...

Joint Letter on the Arrests of Activists’ Relatives by the Iranian Government

Joint Letter on the Arrests of Activists’ Relatives by the Iranian Government

October 2, 2019

The undersigned human rights organizations are deeply concerned about arrests of family members of activists, journalists and ...

Striking Iranian Sugar Plant Workers Add Colleagues’ Freedom to List of Demands

Striking Iranian Sugar Plant Workers Add Colleagues’ Freedom to List of Demands

September 27, 2019

More than three years into ongoing strikes for unpaid wages and benefits, workers of Iran’s biggest sugar ...

Baha’i Woman Blindfolded During Interrogations, Imprisoned Under “National Security” Crimes

Baha’i Woman Blindfolded During Interrogations, Imprisoned Under “National Security” Crimes

September 26, 2019

Man Pressured to Make False Confession, Charged With National Security Crimes for Running Peaceful Baha'i Social Media ...

Authorities Deny Prisoner of Conscience Saeed Shirzad Eye Operation, Access to Mother’s Funeral

Authorities Deny Prisoner of Conscience Saeed Shirzad Eye Operation, Access to Mother’s Funeral

September 25, 2019

Prisoner of conscience Saeed Shirzad has been imprisoned for over five years for attempting ...

Iran Arrests Activist Masih Alinejad’s Brother Amid Crusade to Silence Citizens Based Abroad

Iran Arrests Activist Masih Alinejad’s Brother Amid Crusade to Silence Citizens Based Abroad

September 25, 2019

September 25, 2019 – Against a backdrop of an ongoing campaign aimed at silencing foreign-based activists, agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry arrested the brother of prominent U.S.-based activist Masih Alinejad, ...

Filmmaker’s Family Blocked From Boarding Flight in Tehran: “Iran is Sick and Making Everyone Sick”

Filmmaker’s Family Blocked From Boarding Flight in Tehran: “Iran is Sick and Making Everyone Sick”

September 24, 2019

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No Budget or Implementation: Rouhani Government Fails to Implement Disability Rights Law

No Budget or Implementation: Rouhani Government Fails to Implement Disability Rights Law

September 18, 2019

People with disabilities and activists in Iran signed petitions and held several rallies in 2019 to protest the government's unlawful refusal to ...

Iranian Stadium Ban Activists Honored in Wake of “Blue Girl” Tragedy

Iranian Stadium Ban Activists Honored in Wake of “Blue Girl” Tragedy

September 13, 2019

Minute of Silence Observed for "Blue Girl" Stadium Ban Resister Who Died by Self-Immolation  Activists leading the struggle against Iran's ...

Death of Iran’s “Blue Girl” Spotlights Senseless Ban on Women in Stadiums

Death of Iran’s “Blue Girl” Spotlights Senseless Ban on Women in Stadiums

September 10, 2019

  No More Empty Promises: FIFA Should Call on Iran to Lift Ban Once and For All September 10, 2019 – The death of Sahar Khodayari, a woman who set ...

Mass Sentencing of Labor Activists, Journalists Prelude to Reign of Repression Under New Judiciary Chief

Mass Sentencing of Labor Activists, Journalists Prelude to Reign of Repression Under New Judiciary Chief

September 9, 2019

Seven Sentenced to Lengthy Jail Terms in Connection with Peaceful Protests September 9, 2019—Less than a year after workers’ rights activists in southwestern Iran publicized evidence that Intelligence Ministry ...

Female Political Prisoners To Serve Additional Two Years For “Insulting” Supreme Leader

Female Political Prisoners To Serve Additional Two Years For “Insulting” Supreme Leader

September 6, 2019

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15 Iran MPs Urge New Judiciary Chief to Stop Renewed Crackdown on Freedom of Speech

15 Iran MPs Urge New Judiciary Chief to Stop Renewed Crackdown on Freedom of Speech

September 5, 2019

During a speech addressing Iran’s legislature, member of Parliament (MP) Parvaneh Salahshouri strongly ...

Authorities Ignored Serious Mental Health Condition of Defendant Who Set Herself on Fire Outside Courthouse

Authorities Ignored Serious Mental Health Condition of Defendant Who Set Herself on Fire Outside Courthouse

September 4, 2019

A 29-year-old woman set herself on fire outside a Tehran courthouse reportedly after hearing that she would have to serve six months in ...

Prisoners in Iran’s Gharchak Prison for Women Protest Inhumane Living Conditions 

Prisoners in Iran’s Gharchak Prison for Women Protest Inhumane Living Conditions 

August 30, 2019

Prison Fails to Meet UN’s Minimum Standards for Treatment of Prisoners Two hundred inmates in Ward 5 of ...

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