Eligible For Release From Prison, Zaghari-Ratcliffe Rejects House Arrest Offer
Iranian Judge Claims Iranian-British Citizen is Being Held Because of UK Debt to Iran An Iranian-British charity ...
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Letter from Evin Prison Highlights Grim Plight of Political Prisoners in Iran
Rights Activist, Condemning Iranian Judiciary’s “Subservience” to Security Agencies, is One of Many Languishing Behind Bars February ...
Iranians Debate Use of Violence Against Security Forces After Clashes With Sufi Gonabadis Leave Three Dead
Clashes among members of a predominantly peaceful minority faith in Iran and security forces ...
Seven Rights Activists Denied Legal Counsel After Being Arrested by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry
Seven civil rights activists detained in Evin Prison since February 1, 2018, have been denied access to ...
1,000 Days in Prison: Narges Mohammadi Condemns Iranian Judiciary’s “Subservience” to Security Agencies
Human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi, who recently marked her ...
Tehran Police Open Fire on Sufi Gonabadi Protesters as Clashes Leave Several Dead
A protest by followers of Iran’s Muslim Sufi Gonabadi Order...
Seyed-Emami’s Family Lawyers Issue Statement Countering State TV Smear Campaign
Two lawyers representing the family of recently deceased Kavous Seyed-Emami have issued a statement countering the ...
Civil Rights Activist Parastou Forouhar Fights Six-Year Suspended Prison Sentence
Civil rights activist Parastou Forouhar is awaiting the results of ...
Iran’s Suppression of December 2017 Unrest Marked by Brutal Violations of Law
The state crackdown that crushed the protests that erupted across Iran in late December 2017 was marked by violence and brutal disregard for the law. This CHRI briefing, based on interviews with released detainees, the families and attorneys of detainees, ...
Mother of Ailing Hunger Striker Atena Daemi Assaulted in Front of Evin Prison
Atena Daemi (right) with her mother Masoumeh Nemati. Masoumeh Nemati, the mother of imprisoned civil rights activist Atena Daemi, was attacked in front ...
These Women Risked Imprisonment in Iran to Protest the Compulsory Hijab
In December and January of this year, Iranian women challenged the Islamic Republic’s compulsory hijab by waving their headscarves in public in various ...
Lawyer: IRGC Film of Seyed-Emami’s Prison Cell Does Not Show Act of Suicide
Film Shows Detainee Visibly Agitated Before Disappearing From Camera’s View A lawyer representing the family of Kavous Seyed-Emami, ...
15 Prominent Iranians Call For a Referendum on the Islamic Republic
“The state has become the main obstacle to the progress and liberation of the Iranian nation” Fifteen prominent Iranians ...
Some University Students Still Detained a Month After Iran’s Protests Despite Officials’ Claims
Contrary to Iranian official’s claims that all the university students who were detained...
MP: “More Details Necessary” To Determine Cause of Iranian-Canadian’s Death in Custody
Tehran Prosecutor Claims Autopsy Conducted But Still No Medical Examiner’s Report Iran’s deputy parliamentary speaker has stated that, based on a ...
Female Iranian MPs Demand Action on Stalled Bill Aiming to Preventing Child Abuse
Lawyers Point to Existing Laws and Lack of Enforcement as the Real Problem Some Iranian female lawmakers ...
Clear Signs of State Cover-Up in Prison Death of Iranian-Canadian Academic in Iran
Distraught Family Under Enormous Pressure to Bury Body Quickly and Not Speak Publicly ...
Pollsters Arrested While Conducting Survey Showing Majority of Iranians Dissatisfied With Domestic Affairs
Some pollsters who were gauging views about Iran’s December 2017 protests have been arrested, according to Mohammad Aghasi, ...
Defenders of Human Rights in Iran Mourn the Passing of Asma Jahangir
February 11, 2018 -- It is with great sadness that we heard of ...
Iranian-Canadian Academic Dies in Custody While Under Interrogations
A third detainee, 63-year old Iranian-Canadian professor Kavous Seyed-Emami, has died in custody in Iran, barely 17 days after his arrest and while under interrogations ...
Follower of Sufi Order Expelled From Iranian University After Refusing to Sign Pledge
Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani, a member of the Gonabadi Dervish Sufi order, was expelled from ...
25 Legal Experts Urge Iranian Official to Address “Public Archive” of Abuses Against Baha’is
Twenty-five professors, lawyers and judges from around the world have called on the head of ...
Thousands of Undocumented Iranians Denied Affordable Kerosene In Winter Months
Tens of thousands of people living in poverty in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province are being ...
Two Female Political Prisoners To Begin Refusing Food and Water Over Sudden Transfer to New Prison
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee(left) and Atena Daemi Imprisoned civil rights activists Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and ...