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Unfair Trials

In Cahoots with the State, Iranian Court Sentences Lawyers, Activists Trying to Sue Officials to Prison

In Cahoots with the State, Iranian Court Sentences Lawyers, Activists Trying to Sue Officials to Prison

June 22, 2022

Supreme Leader’s COVID Vaccine Ban Resulted in Thousands of Unnecessary Deaths June 22, 2022 – For trying to sue Iranian leaders for their grossly negligent response to the COVID-19 pandemic, three ...

As Millions Face Poverty, Iran’s Government Dissolves Largest NGO for the Poor

As Millions Face Poverty, Iran’s Government Dissolves Largest NGO for the Poor

May 26, 2022

May 26, 2022 – While millions of Iranians are struggling to make ends meet, the Iranian government has shut down the country’s oldest and largest independent non-governmental organization (NGO) focused on poverty alleviation, the Imam Ali Popular Student Relief Society (IAPSRS). “The Iranian authorities are so threatened by any ...

Iran’s Execution Threat Against Swedish Scientist Aimed at Thwarting War Crimes Trial

Iran’s Execution Threat Against Swedish Scientist Aimed at Thwarting War Crimes Trial

May 4, 2022

May 4, 2022 – The Iranian government’s threat to execute Swedish scientist Ahmadreza Djalali later this month is aimed at thwarting the trial in Sweden against Iranian official Hamid ...

Relatives of Victims of State Violence are Being Persecuted in Iran

Relatives of Victims of State Violence are Being Persecuted in Iran

March 31, 2022

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

Civil Disobedience: Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi Resists Prison Summons

March 23, 2022

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

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

March 22, 2022

Defense attorney Amirsalar Davoudi was imprisoned in Iran for running a social media channel that provided information to lawyers. *Editor's Note: Amirsalar Davoudi was forced to ...

Denial of Medical Treatment for Ailing Political Prisoners in Iran Aimed at Crushing Dissent

Denial of Medical Treatment for Ailing Political Prisoners in Iran Aimed at Crushing Dissent

March 3, 2022

Continued Refusal to Provide Proper Medical Care Risks More Prisoner Deaths March 3, 2022 - The continued denial of proper medical treatment to ailing political and civil rights activists in Iran ...

Joint Statement: Free Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer Mohammad Najafi in Iran

Joint Statement: Free Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer Mohammad Najafi in Iran

March 3, 2022

Lawyer Unlawfully Imprisoned for His Defense of Basic Civil and Political Liberties March 3, 2022 – The lawyer Mohammad Najafi, who has been unlawfully and unjustly imprisoned in Iran since 2018 on ...

Rights Groups: Human Rights Sanctions on Iran Must Not Be Lifted to Reach Nuclear Deal

Rights Groups: Human Rights Sanctions on Iran Must Not Be Lifted to Reach Nuclear Deal

February 18, 2022

President Raisi Should Remain Sanctioned for His Crimes Against Humanity February 18, 2022 - In a joint statement released today, 10* human rights organizations, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran ...

Crackdown on Labor Activists in Iran

Crackdown on Labor Activists in Iran

February 15, 2022

Amid an intensifying campaign of political repression in Iran, state authorities have been summoning, detaining, and imprisoning peaceful labor rights activists and a journalist in various cities throughout the country. A ...

Another Foreign Citizen Nabbed by Iran Now Faces Possible Execution

Another Foreign Citizen Nabbed by Iran Now Faces Possible Execution

February 8, 2022

Political Dissident Jamshid Sharmahd Is Unable to Defend Himself in Iranian Judicial System World Must Speak Out against Iran’s Abductions and Attacks on Dissidents Abroad February 8, 2022 – An Iranian-born German citizen, ...

Five-Minute Trial Resulted in Narges Mohammadi’s Eight-Year Prison Sentence

Five-Minute Trial Resulted in Narges Mohammadi’s Eight-Year Prison Sentence

January 31, 2022

EU Calls for Rights Defender’s Release In a letter from Iran’s notoriously harsh Gharchak Prison, translated into English below by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), renowned rights defender Narges Mohammadi ...

Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Sentenced to Another Eight Years in Prison

Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Sentenced to Another Eight Years in Prison

January 24, 2022

Situation of Political Prisoners Worsens as Iranian Government’s Assault on Peaceful Dissent Intensifies Activists, Lawyers, Dissidents being Kept Behind Bars with Continuous New Convictions January 24, 2022 – In an ongoing campaign to ...

UN Experts Condemn Secret Execution of Kurdish Prisoner in Iran

UN Experts Condemn Secret Execution of Kurdish Prisoner in Iran

December 22, 2021

UN human rights experts today strongly condemned the execution in Iran of political prisoner Heydar (or Heidar) Ghorbani, who was tortured and sentenced to death without a lawyer. Following is ...

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

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

December 9, 2021

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 Arash Keykhosravi and Mostafa Nili. These peaceful human rights defenders, who were arbitrarily arrested while ...

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

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

December 8, 2021

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 in Khuzestan alone ...

Iran Atrocities Tribunal on November 2019 Massacre: A Major Step towards Seeking Justice

Iran Atrocities Tribunal on November 2019 Massacre: A Major Step towards Seeking Justice

November 15, 2021

International Community Must Finally Act with One Voice to Address these Crimes Evidence of the Islamic Republic’s Top Officials Directly Involved in the Atrocities November 15, 2021 -- The Iran Atrocities Tribunal (or “Aban ...

Iran Rights Lawyer: Judicial Process is a “Means to Settle Political Scores”

Iran Rights Lawyer: Judicial Process is a “Means to Settle Political Scores”

November 11, 2021

One of the few remaining defense lawyers in Iran willing to take on human rights cases, Nasser Zarafshan is an expert at navigating the Islamic Republic’s judicial system, which criminalizes ...

Detained Lawyer of Iranian Instagram Star Tortured, Bit Off Tongue After Unidentified Injection

Detained Lawyer of Iranian Instagram Star Tortured, Bit Off Tongue After Unidentified Injection

October 20, 2021

More Political Prisoners Could Die in Custody without Urgent International Action October 20, 2021 – A prominent defense attorney in Iran bit off part of his tongue after being forcibly given an injection ...

Human Rights Lawyers, Activist to Be Illegally Tried as Their Legal Team is Denied Case Files

Human Rights Lawyers, Activist to Be Illegally Tried as Their Legal Team is Denied Case Files

October 12, 2021

Group was Arrested Ahead of Filing Lawsuit Against State Officials for Disastrous Pandemic Response Legal Teams of Defendants Denied Access to Case Files, Homes Raided Detainees Were Pressured to Sign Pledges ...

Supreme Court Refusal to Review 25-year Sentence for Afkari Brother is Travesty of Justice

Supreme Court Refusal to Review 25-year Sentence for Afkari Brother is Travesty of Justice

August 26, 2021

Investigation Marked by Torture, Witness Tampering and Contradictions August 26, 2021—The refusal by Iran’s Supreme Court to allow a judicial review of the 25-year prison sentence for Vahid Afkari, the brother of ...

Analysis: Falsehoods and Contradictions in the Rulings against the Afkari Brothers

Analysis: Falsehoods and Contradictions in the Rulings against the Afkari Brothers

August 26, 2021

Lawyer: The Ruling against Vahid Afkari had “24 Contradictions and 3 Lies” Despite Inconsistencies and Torture, Supreme Court Refuses to Review 25-year Prison Sentence Nearly a year after the unlawful execution of wrestling champion ...

Swedish Trial of Iranian Prosecutor Offers Historic Opportunity to Shed Light on Iran’s 1988 Massacre

Swedish Trial of Iranian Prosecutor Offers Historic Opportunity to Shed Light on Iran’s 1988 Massacre

August 4, 2021

Upcoming Trial of Hamid Nouri May Reveal Details of Executions of Thousands of Prisoners and Role of Incoming President Raisi August 4, 2021—The upcoming trial of a former assistant prosecutor in Iran, ...

Two Elderly Dual Nationals Among Five Sentenced to Prison in Iran

Two Elderly Dual Nationals Among Five Sentenced to Prison in Iran

August 4, 2021

Prisons Pose High Risks to Inmates Amid the Country’s Surging Covid-19 Pandemic August 4, 2021 – Elderly dual national prisoners Mehran Raoof, 66, and Nahid Taghavi, 64, were among five prisoners held ...

Three More Iranian Human Rights Attorneys Slapped with Unjust Prison Sentences

Three More Iranian Human Rights Attorneys Slapped with Unjust Prison Sentences

August 2, 2021

Three more human rights attorneys in Iran were handed unjust prison sentences in July 2021 amid an ongoing campaign to eliminate due process for activists and dissidents by intimidating the ...

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