One Child, and at Least Six Political Prisoners Hanged This Week December 1, 2023 – The surging executions of political prisoners in Iran are part of a state campaign deployed to crush dissent, and ...
November 17, 2023 – An arbitrarily detained woman, facing unjust imprisonment in Iran, has provided a detailed account of her violent abduction amid mass arrests of peaceful protesters who were beaten and coerced into ...
A UN human rights expert has reported on the entrenched shortcomings within the Islamic Republic of Iran's legal and political framework, which severely curtail the ability of Iranian citizens to engage in democratic participation ...
Niloufar Hamedi Gets 13 Years Behind Bars and Elahe Mohammadi 12 Years Iranian Government Moves to Crush “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement On All Fronts October 23, 2023 — The sentencing of two women journalists ...
Iranian Government Targeting Disability Rights Advocates In Separate Case, Lawyer Representing Mahsa Jina Amini Sentenced to a Year in Prison October 18, 2023 – A prominent and blind disability rights lawyer from Saqqez, the hometown of Mahsa Jina Amini, whose killing in Iranian state custody sparked months of anti-state protests, ...
Signatories, Including Wounded Protesters, Urge Investigation by UN’s Fact-Finding Mission and Support by International Medical Organizations October 9, 2023 — A group of more than 120 Iranians, including medical professionals, lawyers, activists, and ...
New Law Requires Teachers To Be “Evaluated” with Ideological Questions Every Year September 28, 2023 – A year-long state crackdown on civil society and dissent in Iran has been corroding the country’s education ...
September 27, 2023 — The release of the five American hostages held in the Islamic Republic of Iran is a welcome development. The imprisonment of these individuals, long-held unlawfully in the country, ...
Another Political Prisoner’s Death Sparks Outrage Weeks Before Anniversary of Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” Uprising Citing Relative, Activist Says Javad Roohi was “Killed” September 1, 2023 – The death of Javad Roohi, aged 35, ...
Rights and Revolt: Three Lawyers Analyze the Legal Terrain of Iran's "Women Life Freedom" Movement In anticipation of the anniversary of Iran's transformative "Women, Life, Freedom" movement, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) hosted a webinar on September 12, 2023, featuring distinguished human ...
At Least 22 Activists Arrested in Last Three Weeks as State’s Repressive Capacity Gears Up International Community “Must Take Decisive Measures” August 21, 2023 – The recent detention of at least 22 activists ...
Saman Yasin: Latest Victim of Iran’s Use of Forced Psychiatric Care to Punish Political Prisoners July 24, 2023 – The forced psychiatric hospitalization of jailed rapper Saman Yasin in Iran shortly after he ...
Iranian Officials Commit Rights Violations with Impunity While Parliament Votes to Further Persecute Human Rights Defenders June 28, 2023 – Bolstering a state campaign aimed at crushing dissent, the Iranian Parliament has ...
In light of the escalating number of illegal executions in Iran, a group of leading Iranian human rights lawyers have penned a letter to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, urging him ...
Islamic Republic Is Severely Violating International Laws Governing Death Penalty Protesters Hanged After Sham Trials, Minorities Targeted for Capital Punishment May 24, 2023 — In a letter delivered to 75 ...
Prosecution of Three Young Men Relied on Torture, Forced “Confessions” Defendant: "They kept beating me to make me tell their version of their crime on camera" *Editor's Note: Saeed Yaghoubi, Saleh Mirhashemi, and Majid Kazemi were hanged on May 19, 2023 May 17, 2023 – Three young men—Saeed Yaghoubi, 37, ...
Ten People Being Put to Death Each Week, 209 Hangings Since January 1 UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk called on the authorities in Iran to “halt all executions” and “abolish the ...
Executions to Silence Dissent After Grossly Unfair Trials Increase in Iran Dissidents and Minorities Targeted, 42 People Executed in Last Ten Days May 8, 2023—The execution of three men over the last three days ...
Sources Close to Toomaj Urge International Community to Demand His Release Before Trial Begins Imprisoned Unjustly Since October 2022, in Urgent Need of Medical Care April 6, 2023 – The international community, including music and arts institutions as well as freedom of speech and expression organizations, should urgently call ...
More than a month has passed since the Iranian government issued a “pardon” for an unverified number of prisoners and detainees following the arrests of tens of thousands of people across the country amid anti-state protests that began in September 2022. As CHRI has noted, the announced ...
31 Lawyers and Doctors Call for Freedom of “Peace-Seeking Lawyer and Human Rights Activist” In a joint letter published today, 31 doctors and human rights lawyers from within Iran and France called on ...
Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence Against Habib Farajollah Chaab After Show Trial Three Foreign Dissidents Have Been Abducted and Sentenced to Death in Iran Since 2019 March 13, 2022 – An Iranian-born Swedish citizen ...
Jamshid Sharmahd Was Abducted by Islamic Republic Agents, Tortured and Denied Due Process February 21, 2023 – The death sentence against Iranian-born German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd is a blatant ...
Blatant Attempt to Silence Sotoudeh for Outspoken Support for Protesters February 14, 2023 – The human rights activist Reza Khandan, who is the husband of the prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, has been summoned to report to prison within 30 days to begin serving ...
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 ...