Global Medical Community Must Speak Out Against Severe Violation of International Law February 10, 2023 — An increasing number of doctors and medical workers continue to be arrested, detained, tortured and killed by Islamic Republic forces for treating wounded protesters, in direct violation of international law that requires the protection ...
Previous Pardons Have Not Been Followed by Actual Prisoner Releases Detained Protesters Assumed Guilty, Must “Apologize” First February 8, 2023 - The announced pardons and sentence reductions for tens of thousands of people charged or prosecuted ...
Recommendations Lay Out Tangible Actions Governments Can Take to Address Violent Repression February 7, 2023 – More than four months into the Islamic Republic’s violent suppression of nationwide protests in Iran, in which hundreds have ...
In an open letter, renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi has announced the beginning of his hunger strike in Tehran's Evin Prison until he is freed from his illegal imprisonment. "I firmly declare that in protest against the unlawful and inhumane behavior of the judicial and security apparatus and this ...
Attorneys Jailed to Prevent Them From Defending Protesters and Their Families January 25, 2023 – Four months into the Islamic Republic’s violent suppression of anti-state protests, Iranian authorities are beating, firing ...
Executions of Protesters Continuing; Forceful Action Urgently Needed EU and At Least Eight European Countries Summon Iran’s Ambassadors January 12, 2023 – Governments around the world should recall their ambassadors from the Islamic Republic in protest against the Iranian government’s hanging of protesters and killing of hundreds ...
Crackdown Aimed at Destroying Any Chance of Fair Trials for Protesters Detainees Forced to Use Court-Appointed Lawyers January 10, 2023 – While the Islamic Republic has been gunning down and executing street protesters, it ...
World Leaders Should Withdraw Ambassadors, Demand Moratorium on Executions January 7, 2023 – The hanging in Iran today of two men who were arrested in connection with street protests, Mohammad Mehdi ...
Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, and UK Call for Binding Arbitration No One Held Accountable for IRGC’s Killing of 176 Passengers January 6, 2023—Three years after the shooting down of Ukrainian Passenger Flight PS752 ...
Editor's Note: This article is regularly updated with new information. January 4, 2023 – The Islamic Republic’s persecution of athletes for peacefully supporting anti-state protests that have been ongoing throughout the country since September ...
26-Year-Old Actor Sentenced to Death, More Than 100 Industry Members Imprisoned December 20, 2022 – The sentencing of theater actor Hossein Mohammadi to death in Iran after a show trial, and the ...
At Least 11 Sentenced to Death and 24 Others Facing Charges that Could Carry Death Penalty December 15, 2022 – At least 11 men have been sentenced to death in the Islamic ...
Café Worker Mohsen Shekari, 23, Denied Due Process in Kangaroo Court December 8, 2022 – The execution today in Iran of Mohsen Shekari, 23, after a trial by a kangaroo court that denied ...
Governments, UN Must Take Urgent Action to Protect Them November 30, 2022 – At least three juveniles are among 15 individuals in the Iranian city of Karaj who are facing charges that could carry the ...
Government Ignores Top Sunni Cleric’s Calls for Accountability Massacres of protesters by state security forces in the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan have not stemmed protests that began there in late September over the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl by the police chief of the city ...
In a joint statement obtained by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) and translated into English below, 40 Iranian human rights lawyers from inside and outside the country have expressed ...
Charges Carrying Possible Death Sentence Already Being Issued November 2, 2022 – With mass public trials for protesters recently announced in Iran, and charges already beginning to be issued that could carry ...
Unable to Crush Protests, State Resorts to Smearing Female Reporters with Sham Accusations November 1, 2022 – The Iranian government’s fabricated accusations against two unlawfully detained female journalists, Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe ...
Prominent Teachers, Labor Leaders Slapped with Jail Time as 500+ Face Sham Charges October 24, 2022 – The sentencing of prominent teachers and labor rights advocates to prison in Iran amid a violent crackdown ...
The international community should loudly and publicly condemn the blatantly unlawful death sentences issued without due process against two LGBTQ activists in West Azerbaijan Province, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a statement today ...
August 5, 2022 – Increasing arbitrary arrests of members of the persecuted Baha’i faith in Iran, and an intensifying government-sponsored campaign of destruction and confiscation of their properties should be internationally condemned, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom ...
Lauding a landmark universal jurisdiction conviction in Sweden against Hamid Nouri, an Iranian official accused of mass atrocities, the UN special rapporteur on ...
Conviction Opens Door for More Trials Against Officials Accused of Atrocities July 14, 2022 -- After 92 sessions of a trial that lasted almost a year, a court in Stockholm, Sweden ...
Iranian Court Refers to France as an “Enemy Government” June 28, 2022 – Countries negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program, including France, the U.K., and the U.S., as well as European Union foreign ...
In a statement released today by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani, the UN called on the Iranian government, headed by President Ebrahim Raisi and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, to rescind a finger amputation sentence ...