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Unfair Trials

Rajaee Shahr Prison Inmates Fed With Livestock Feed

Rajaee Shahr Prison Inmates Fed With Livestock Feed

November 17, 2017

A political prisoner in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Iran, labor activist Reza Shahabi, has revealed that prison authorities have been providing inmates with livestock ...

Parastou Forouhar: Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Filed Charges Against Me Based on a Photograph

Parastou Forouhar: Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Filed Charges Against Me Based on a Photograph

November 16, 2017

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry pressed charges against activist Parastou Forouhar based on a photo of one of her artworks that created a stir on social media, she told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on November ...

Supreme Administrative Court Blocks Judicial-Parliamentary Agreement to Reinstate Zoroastrian City Council Member  

Supreme Administrative Court Blocks Judicial-Parliamentary Agreement to Reinstate Zoroastrian City Council Member  

November 15, 2017

The Supreme Administrative Court in Tehran has blocked an agreement by the speaker of Parliament and the head of the judiciary to reinstate Sepanta Niknam, a member of the Zoroastrian faith, to the Yazd City Council ...

83 Countries Vote to Pass UN Resolution Expressing “Serious Concern” over Human Rights in Iran

83 Countries Vote to Pass UN Resolution Expressing “Serious Concern” over Human Rights in Iran

November 14, 2017

In an overwhelming sign of international support for human rights in Iran, 83 countries approved a resolution by the UN Third Committee today criticizing the state of human rights in the Islamic Republic ...

Tehran Governor Pleased With His Imaginary Tolerance of Peaceful Protests

Tehran Governor Pleased With His Imaginary Tolerance of Peaceful Protests

November 14, 2017

The governor of Tehran Province, Mohammad Hossein Moghimi, has erroneously declared that since President Hassan Rouhani took office in 2013, protests in Iran’s capital city have been tolerated without the use of force ...

Former MP: Preventing Religious Minorities From Running in Iran’s Local Elections Violates Constitutional Rights

Former MP: Preventing Religious Minorities From Running in Iran’s Local Elections Violates Constitutional Rights

November 14, 2017

Passing legislation to restrict the rights of religious minorities in Iran would violate their rights as equal citizens, a prominent reformist former legislator told the Center for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Europe’s Silence on Human Rights in Iran Encourages Further Abuses

Europe’s Silence on Human Rights in Iran Encourages Further Abuses

November 14, 2017

EU Parliamentary Delegation Going to Iran Should Use Its Leverage to Engage Iran on Human Rights November 14, 2017—European governments’ blithe disregard for mounting human rights violations in Iran ever since the signing of the nuclear deal ...

Labor Activist Without Kidneys Returned to Prison Against Medical Advice

Labor Activist Without Kidneys Returned to Prison Against Medical Advice

November 13, 2017

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry and the chief prosecutor of Kurdistan Province have refused to accept a medical examiner’s recommendation to hospitalize imprisoned labor activist Mahmoud Salehi, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Salehi, who ...

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Killed Parastou Forouhar’s Parents. Now It’s Going After Her.

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Killed Parastou Forouhar’s Parents. Now It’s Going After Her.

November 10, 2017

An Iranian activist who has been seeking justice for her parents murdered by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in 1998, will soon be put on trial based on charges brought by ...

Political Prisoners Urge International NGOs to Investigate Case of Inmate With Suspected Cancer

Political Prisoners Urge International NGOs to Investigate Case of Inmate With Suspected Cancer

November 9, 2017

Three human rights activists held in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Iran have written a letter urging international rights groups to help fellow political prisoner Majid Assadi, who has been denied outside medical treatment despite severe health problems ...

Imprisoned Labor Activist With No Kidneys Hospitalized After Being Forced to Sleep on Cell Floor

Imprisoned Labor Activist With No Kidneys Hospitalized After Being Forced to Sleep on Cell Floor

November 6, 2017

Imprisoned labor activist Mahmoud Salehi remains in intensive care three days after being rushed from a prison in Saqqez, in Iran’s Kurdistan Province, to a local hospital. ...

Iranian Poet Sentenced to Prison and Flogging For the Charge of “Insulting the Sacred”

Iranian Poet Sentenced to Prison and Flogging For the Charge of “Insulting the Sacred”

November 5, 2017

Poet and civil rights activist Reza Ekvanyan has been sentenced to three years in prison and 40 lashes for the charges of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting the sacred” by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, presided by Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh ...

After 10 Years in Prison, Faith Leader Fariba Kamalabadi Says Baha’is Hope to Serve Iran

After 10 Years in Prison, Faith Leader Fariba Kamalabadi Says Baha’is Hope to Serve Iran

November 5, 2017

In her first interview since being released from Evin Prison on October 31, 2017, Baha’i faith leader Fariba Kamalabadi said Baha’is “love” Iran and want to “serve” their country. “There have been a lot of reports about the rights that have been denied to Baha’is,” Kamalabadi told the ...

Thousands of Iranian Death Row Inmates to Receive Sentence Reviews Under Amended Drug Law

Thousands of Iranian Death Row Inmates to Receive Sentence Reviews Under Amended Drug Law

November 3, 2017

Alleged drug traffickers stand in front of narcotics after a police operation. Thousands of Iranians currently on death row for low-level drug crimes will ...

Website Close to IRGC Says Judicial Attack Against BBC Persian is “Spoils of War”

Website Close to IRGC Says Judicial Attack Against BBC Persian is “Spoils of War”

November 2, 2017

A website serving as a mouthpiece for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has attempted to justify the criminal investigation launched by the judiciary against Iranian nationals working for BBC Persian, ...

Agents Interrupt Labor Activist’s Dialysis Treatment to Transport Him to Prison

Agents Interrupt Labor Activist’s Dialysis Treatment to Transport Him to Prison

October 31, 2017

Labor activist Mahmoud Salehi was detained by security agents on October 28, 2017, while undergoing dialysis at a hospital in the city of Saqqez, in Iran’s Kurdistan ...

Judge Refuses to Order Psychological Evaluation That Could Save Man Sentenced to Death as Minor

Judge Refuses to Order Psychological Evaluation That Could Save Man Sentenced to Death as Minor

October 31, 2017

A judge in Iran is refusing to order a psychological evaluation to determine the maturity level of Mohammad Reza Haddadi in 2003, the year he allegedly ...

Hundreds of Iranian Rights Activists Call on Political Prisoner Mohammad Nazari to End Hunger Strike

Hundreds of Iranian Rights Activists Call on Political Prisoner Mohammad Nazari to End Hunger Strike

October 30, 2017

Mohammad Nazari has been imprisoned since 1994. More than 700 Iranian political and civil rights activists have called on one ...

Man Imprisoned on Nuclear Program Related Espionage Charges on Hunger Strike

Man Imprisoned on Nuclear Program Related Espionage Charges on Hunger Strike

October 30, 2017

Alireza Golipour has been imprisoned since 2012 for allegedly passing on information about Iran's Natanz nuclear site to US officials. Refusing food in Tehran’s Evin Prison ...

Iranian Mother Sentenced to Prison for Demanding Justice For Slain Son

Iranian Mother Sentenced to Prison for Demanding Justice For Slain Son

October 29, 2017

“Confessions” Obtained by Intelligence Ministry While Shahnaz Akmali Held in Solitary Confinement A court in Tehran has sentenced Shahnaz Akmali, the mother of a well-known victim of the ...

UN Special Rapporteur: Despite “Encouraging Signs,” Human Rights Deteriorating in Iran

UN Special Rapporteur: Despite “Encouraging Signs,” Human Rights Deteriorating in Iran

October 26, 2017

Asma Jahangir, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In presenting her semi-annual 2017 report on Iran to the United ...

Conservative Clerics, IRGC Pressured Court to Convict Rouhani Campaigner

Conservative Clerics, IRGC Pressured Court to Convict Rouhani Campaigner

October 25, 2017

Ali Mohammad Mohammadi, a former local chief campaigner for ...

Swedish Resident Facing Death Penalty: I Was Imprisoned For Refusing to Spy For Iran’s Intelligence Ministry

Swedish Resident Facing Death Penalty: I Was Imprisoned For Refusing to Spy For Iran’s Intelligence Ministry

October 25, 2017

Ahmadreza Djalali poses for a picture with his wife, Vida Mehran-nia. Ahmadreza Djajali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident who was sentenced to death by a Revolutionary ...

Iranian-Born Swedish Resident Sentenced to Death Based on Forced Confession

Iranian-Born Swedish Resident Sentenced to Death Based on Forced Confession

October 23, 2017

Ahmadreza Djalali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident who has been imprisoned in Iran since April 2016, was sentenced to death for “moharebeh” (enmity with God) ...

After Years of International Condemnation, Iran Revises Death Penalty Policy

After Years of International Condemnation, Iran Revises Death Penalty Policy

October 20, 2017

Amendment to Drug Law Could Result in Drastically Reduced Execution Rate After years of being pressured by the UN and other rights groups to reduce the country’s high execution rate, Iran’s Parliament has passed ...

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