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Rights Groups Call on Meta to Fix Persian Content Moderation for Instagram

June 9, 2022 — In a joint statement released today, human rights organizations ARTICLE 19, Access Now, and ...

85 Lawyers Call on Iranian Government to Respect Right to Protest

In an unprecedented display of unity in defense of the Iranian people, 85 lawyers from Iran have signed an open letter calling on the Iranian government to respect the right to protest. “It is ...

Protesters Killed While Iran’s Government Blocks Internet and Media Coverage

May 17, 2022 – At least five protesters are dead amid a violent state crackdown on street demonstrations in Iran, while the authorities have blocked internet access in protest hot zones, pressured domestic ...

Iran Protesters at Risk of Lethal State Violence

International Community Must Call on Iranian Officials to Refrain from Deadly Repression May 12, 2022 – Ongoing street protests in Iran could lead to more killings and arbitrary imprisonments by state security forces if ...

Khuzestan Protests: Fears of Another Bloody Crackdown

Internet Shutdown, Heavy Security Presence Signal Lethal State Repression May 9, 2022 – Government-enforced internet outages and the increased presence of state security forces throughout the Iranian province of Khuzestan, where street protests erupted ...

Dozens of Teachers Arrested in Iran During Workers’ Day Protests

Iranian security forces arrested at least 28 teachers in the four days leading up to international workers’ ...

Joint Statement: Iran Should Stop Persecuting Families Seeking Justice for State Atrocities

The 15 undersigned organizations, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), today issued a joint statement calling on the international community to urge the Iranian authorities to immediately cease their reprisals against the Iran Atrocities (Aban) Tribunal’s witnesses ...

Relatives of Victims of State Violence are Being Persecuted in Iran

The government of President Ebrahim Raisi should end the state’s campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of victims of state violence, including those who died during street protests ...

Civil Disobedience: Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi Resists Prison Summons

Longtime human rights defender and former prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi is peacefully refusing to report to prison in Tehran to serve an eight-year sentence that was issued against her after a five-minute trial ...

Interview: Rights Lawyer Turned Political Prisoner Condemns “Shameful” Acts Against Lawyers in Iran

Defense attorney Amirsalar Davoudi was imprisoned in Iran for running ...

Unprecedented Lawsuit Filed Against Supreme Leader, Top Iranian Officials

Complaint Alleges Gross Negligence in Government’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic Lawyers Who Filed the Complaint are Facing ...

Crackdown on Labor Activists in Iran

Amid an intensifying campaign of political repression in Iran, state authorities have been summoning, detaining, ...

Leaked Iranian State Document: Expect Protests to Get Bigger and More Frequent

High-Level Intelligence Official: “Social Discontent Has Increased About 300 Percent” A top-secret Iranian state document ...

Interview: Suppressing Teachers’ Protests Would be a “Great Risk” for Iran’s Government

Sattar Rahmani, a former teacher and political prisoner in ...

Iran’s Violent Crushing of Protests Followed by Growth of Security State

IRGC Commanders Appointed as Governor-Generals to 10 of Iran’s 31 Provinces “People’s tolerance level has decreased ...

Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Sentenced to Another Eight Years in Prison

Situation of Political Prisoners Worsens as Iranian Government’s Assault on Peaceful Dissent Intensifies Activists, Lawyers, Dissidents being Kept ...

Iranian Poet Baktash Abtin Dies After Being Arbitrarily Detained in Iran

Abtin, Jailed for Dissent, is Second Political Prisoner to Die in Iran in First Week ...

Downed Passenger Plane: Iran’s Government Should Allow People to Freely Mourn, Pursue Justice

Families Call for Independent UN Investigation January 6, 2022 – While commemorating the second anniversary of the killing ...

UN Adopts Resolution Criticizing Iran’s Human Rights Abuses

On December 16, 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted draft resolution II, “Situation ...

Teachers Across Iran Protest for Fair Pay, Release of Jailed Colleagues

Teachers and supporters protested in the streets of more than 119 Iranian cities across Iran ...

Joint Statement: Free Arbitrarily Detained Right to Health Defenders in Iran

The following joint statement, signed by 23 international human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, calls on Iranian judicial authorities to release the activist Mehdi Mahmoudian and defense attorneys...

Khuzestan Kangaroo Court Sentences Two Protesters to Death, Life in Prison

Abbas and Mohsen Deris, both members of Iran’s ethnic Arab minority in Khuzestan Province, were arrested during the country’s violently repressed November 2019 protests, which broke out across the country that month and which saw an estimated 100 protesters killed ...

Isfahan: Instead of Crushing Protests, the Iranian Government Should Solve Its Water Crisis

The Iranian security and military forces’ violent crackdown on large protests in the city of Isfahan that broke out over severe state mismanagement of water resources is more evidence of the Ebrahim Raisi government’s policy of zero tolerance of public ...