Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against a 25-year-old Kurdish auto mechanic on false charges, the mechanic’s lawyer told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Hedayat Abdollahpour was arrested in late ...
Merchants and business owners went on strike in several Iranian cities on October 8, 2018, to protest against hyperinflation and economic instability. Images and video footage...
Narges Mohammad hasn't seen her children since she was imprisoned in Iran for her human rights activism more than three years ago. In this video she sings a love song for them during a brief furlough at her now empty home. "During this time, there ...
For the first time in more than three years, Iranian political prisoner Narges Mohammadi was allowed to go on a three-day furlough on September 26, 2018. But ...
Unnamed “special courts for economic crimes” in Iran have sentenced three people to death and condemned 32 others to long prison sentences for allegedly manipulating Iran’s gold and currency markets, Judiciary ...
Sotoudeh’s Sister Threatened With Arrest Imprisoned Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, has been charged with national security crimes for peacefully supporting his wife and ...
* This article was last updated on October 10, 2018. October 8, 2018 – Five out of the eight environmentalists who have been detained in Iran since January 2018, including a British-Iranian-American national, have been ...
Four teachers are currently behind bars in Iranian prisons for engaging in peaceful trade union activities, according to Rassoul Bodaghi, a formerly imprisoned labor activist and senior member of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade ...
Prisoner of conscience Soheil Arabi has been sentenced to three more years behind bars—increasing his total term to 10 years—for engaging in peaceful activism inside ...
Judge Moghiseh Notorious in Iran for Issuing Politically Motivated Sentences Payam Derafshan and Mohammad Moghimi, the lawyers representing detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, have sued Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, the head of Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, accusing him of unlawful sentencing and displaying a lack of ...
Since January 2018, at least eight environmentalists have been detained in Iran even though the country's own Intelligence Ministry has admitted there's no evidence to support the politically motivated charges the detainees are facing. They include Sam Rajabi, Niloufar Bayani, Morad Tahbaz (also holds American citizenship), Amir Hossein Khaleghi, ...
Xiyue Wang (right) with his son and wife. A group of 120 academics and human rights activists of Iranian origin have called on Iran to free imprisoned American ...
Zeinab Sekaanvand is Fifth Known Juvenile Offender Executed in Past Year October 2, 2018 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) condemns the execution of Zeinab Sekaanvand Lankarani who was charged with ...
Iranians have taken to social media to call for the freedom of Mehdi Hajati, a member of the Shiraz City Council who was arrested on September 27, 2018, two days after ...
UN SRs on Human Rights Banned From Visiting Since 2005 The new special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, has requested that Iran ...
Meysami Intensifies Hunger Strike and Calls For Release of Reza Khandan Imprisoned civil rights activist Farhad Meysami has resisted medical treatment in Evin Prison in Iran to bring attention to his ...
Denial of Medical Care to Political Prisoners Routine in Iran October 1, 2018 – Iranian authorities should immediately free political prisoner Arash Sadeghi so he can receive medical care for serious health issues that require ...
Two months after a judge in Iran told imprisoned Iranian British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe that her freedom depends on the ...
Two Kurdish men, Houshmand Alipour and Mohammad Ostad-Ghader, have been held incommunicado inside Iran’s Intelligence Ministry detention center in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, since they were arrested on August 3, 2018, the Center for Human ...
Seventeen members of the Baha’i faith were arrested by agents of the Intelligence Ministry throughout Iran between August 23 and September 23, 2018, the Center for Human Rights in Iran ...
Political Prisoner Farhad Meysami has intensified his hunger strike against his unjust imprisonment by refusing to take medication for a serious illness, the Center for ...
For the first time in more than three years, imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi was granted furlough for three days to visit her ...
Women’s rights advocate Maryam Azad was arrested by security agents at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport on September 25, 2018, after boarding a plane scheduled to fly to Istanbul, a source close to ...
Despite his worsening condition, hunger-striking detainee Farhad Meysami refused to be transferred to a hospital outside Tehran’s Evin Prison unless he would be allowed to ...
Detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has written a letter to her 12-year-old son, Nima, explaining why she and her husband—also detained in Iran’s Evin ...