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Top UN Official: Human Rights Situation in Iran is of “Serious Concern”

Top UN Official: Human Rights Situation in Iran is of “Serious Concern”

June 23, 2021

Secretary-General Cites Impunity for Rights Violations and Increase Risk of Future Violations *Read the full UN Secretary-General report here. In the latest report on Iran by the UN Secretary-General, the world’s top diplomat stated that the rights situation in Iran “remains of serious concern” and that “impediments to the rule ...

For Iran’s Lawyers, Defending Dissidents Is Getting Dangerous (Commentary Published in World Politics Review)

For Iran’s Lawyers, Defending Dissidents Is Getting Dangerous (Commentary Published in World Politics Review)

May 18, 2021

Internationally renowned human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh is among at least five defense attorneys currently imprisoned in Iran for doing their jobs. This op-ed was published in World Politics Review Jasmin Ramsey Tuesday, May 18, ...

UN: Women and Girls in Iran Treated as Second Class Citizens, Reforms Urgently Needed

UN: Women and Girls in Iran Treated as Second Class Citizens, Reforms Urgently Needed

March 9, 2021

UN Press Release, GENEVA (8 March 2021) – Women and girls continue to be treated as second class citizens in Iran, a UN expert says in a report to the Human Rights Council, citing domestic violence, thousands of marriages of girls aged between 10 and 14 ...

Narges Mohammadi Video Message: Evin Prison Director Personally Assaulted Me

Narges Mohammadi Video Message: Evin Prison Director Personally Assaulted Me

February 28, 2021

Following is an excerpted translation by the Center for Human Rights in Iran of comments made by the renowned rights activist and former prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi in a February 26, 2021, video message about being assaulted by the director of Evin Prison and other security ...

New UN Report Assails Iran for Persistent Discrimination against Women

New UN Report Assails Iran for Persistent Discrimination against Women

February 15, 2021

Juvenile Executions, Persecution of Human Rights Defenders Also Condemned In the latest report issued by the UN’s top expert on Iran, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran Javaid Rehman expressed alarm and concern over a broad range of human rights violations in ...

Female Activists Imprisoned for Attending Protests, Refusing “Virginity Test”

Female Activists Imprisoned for Attending Protests, Refusing “Virginity Test”

February 11, 2021

Two imprisoned student activists continue to be persecuted for peacefully protesting unjust policies and practices in Iran, including so-called "virginity tests." Charged with “assembly and collusion against national security” for peacefully participating in protests, Soha Mortezaei must now serve six years in prison after her sentence was ...

Women’s Rights in Iran

Women’s Rights in Iran

January 6, 2021

Women in Iran are among the Middle East’s most educated, yet they continue to face severe rights violations in both law and practice. In CHRI’s Women’s Rights Fact Sheet, these abuses—in areas such as the lack of protections against violence, inequality in family and criminal law, discrimination in the political and economic spheres, and the ...

Easy State Loans Prompting Surge in Child Marriages in Iran

Easy State Loans Prompting Surge in Child Marriages in Iran

December 1, 2020

Child Marriages Rise Four-Fold as Parents Marry Off Their Children to Receive Loans Easily available loans provided by state-owned banks to cover marriage expenses are resulting in a huge surge in child marriages in Iran—a country that already has large numbers of girls being married off by their ...

Two Students Sentenced to Prison for Peaceful Protest During November 2019

Two Students Sentenced to Prison for Peaceful Protest During November 2019

November 13, 2020

Issued on Anniversary of Protests, Six-Year and One-Year Sentences May Be Warnings to Others  24-Year Prison Sentence Upheld for Peaceful Campaigner against Compulsory Hijab University of Tehran student Marjan Eshaghi has been slapped with a one-year prison sentence, plus a suspended four-year prison term, by Branch 15 of the ...

Iran Moving Women Political Prisoners to Jails with “Common Criminals”

Iran Moving Women Political Prisoners to Jails with “Common Criminals”

October 23, 2020

Sotoudeh and Three Other Activists Transferred Out of Evin’s Women’s Ward to Other Prisons As part of a new policy to isolate political prisoners by incarcerating them alongside common criminals at various prisons in Iran, three women convicted of national security crimes for opposing Iran’s mandatory hijab laws ...

“We Must Not be Silent” Watch the New “Nasrin” Documentary

“We Must Not be Silent” Watch the New “Nasrin” Documentary

October 6, 2020

Available for viewing within the U.S. at the Globe Docs Film Festival from October 1-12, 2020, "Nasrin" is a new feature documentary about one of the world’s most courageous human rights activists and political prisoners, Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh--and the women's rights movement she's helping lead. Narrated by Academy Award-winning ...

New Charges Thrown at Political Prisoners to Keep Them Behind Bars

New Charges Thrown at Political Prisoners to Keep Them Behind Bars

September 30, 2020

Rushed Convictions Show Judiciary Willing to Do Bidding of Intelligence Forces State Responds to Growing Societal Discontent with Intensified Efforts to Silence All Dissent October 1, 2020—In a blatant move to keep political prisoners in Iran behind bars despite completing their sentences, judicial authorities in Iran are increasingly issuing ...

A Conversation with the Director and Producers of the New Documentary, “Nasrin”

A Conversation with the Director and Producers of the New Documentary, “Nasrin”

September 30, 2020

Nasrin, a new documentary scheduled for its world premiere on October 1, 2020, tells the important and fascinating story of Nasrin Sotoudeh, the imprisoned human rights lawyer who has endured years behind bars for defending basic civil and political rights in Iran. The Center for ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh in Hospital, Condition Deteriorating, Family Denied Access and Information

Nasrin Sotoudeh in Hospital, Condition Deteriorating, Family Denied Access and Information

September 20, 2020

Husband Catches Glimpse as She is Wheeled for Tests: “She does not look well at all” Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer on Hunger Strike Since August 11 to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners September 20, 2020—The imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been on a hunger strike ...

Top UN Iran Expert Expresses “Alarm” at Iran’s “Unprecedented Violent Crackdown” against Protestors

Top UN Iran Expert Expresses “Alarm” at Iran’s “Unprecedented Violent Crackdown” against Protestors

September 11, 2020

Imprisonment of Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders, Juvenile Executions, Singled Out for Condemnation In the latest report by the UN’s top expert on Iran, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, expressed “alarm” and “dismay” over ...

Critical Deterioration in Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Health as Hunger Strike Hits Three-Week Mark

Critical Deterioration in Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Health as Hunger Strike Hits Three-Week Mark

August 31, 2020

Imprisoned Human Rights Attorney Refuses Food to Demand Release of Prisoners Endangered by COVID-19 Husband: “Nasrin has become extremely weak” August 31, 2020—The health of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has become critically threatened by a hunger strike she began on August 11, 2020 to call for ...

Mother of Jailed Anti-Compulsory Hijab Activist Calls for Legal Reform

Mother of Jailed Anti-Compulsory Hijab Activist Calls for Legal Reform

June 5, 2020

*Update: On November 9, 2020, Branch 28 of the Supreme Court rejected a petition by Kord-Afshari’s lawyer, Hosein Taj, to review the 24-year prison sentence against Saba Kord-Afshari for her peaceful campaign against compulsory hijab. Based on Article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code, which stipulates that in the case of ...

Australian Academic Who Attempted Suicide Should be Freed from Unlawful Confinement in Iran

Australian Academic Who Attempted Suicide Should be Freed from Unlawful Confinement in Iran

May 7, 2020

Scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert Kept in Bathroom-Like Temporary Holding Cell Since 2018 May 7, 2020 – A British-Australian academic held in isolation in Iran since September 2018, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, has repeatedly attempted suicide and could be in extreme danger, according to information received by the Center for Human ...

Detained Teen Instagram Star With COVID-19 on Ventilator After Judge Refused to Release Her

Detained Teen Instagram Star With COVID-19 on Ventilator After Judge Refused to Release Her

April 16, 2020

Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, Who Could Authorize Her Release, Has Been Unreachable Detained teenage Instagram celebrity Fatemeh Khishvand is currently on a ventilator at Sina Hospital in Tehran after contracting COVID-19 in state custody, while the judge who holds the power to free her is unreachable, according to her ...

Coronavirus in Iran: How You Can Help

Coronavirus in Iran: How You Can Help

March 18, 2020

Stand with Healthcare Workers Battling COVID-19 March 18, 2020 -- The Center for Human Rights in Iran stands in solidarity with the people of Iran during this time of great national trauma and suffering, and sends a message of hope and strength with the arrival of the Persian ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh: “If We’re Going to Die, Let Us Be by Our Families’ Sides”

Nasrin Sotoudeh: “If We’re Going to Die, Let Us Be by Our Families’ Sides”

March 17, 2020

Jailed Attorney, Fellow Political Prisoners Hunger Strike for Freedom Amid COVID-19 Outbreak March 17, 2020 -- At least three political activists in Tehran’s Evin Prison have joined prominent imprisoned human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh’s hunger strike demanding “freedom for all political prisoners” amid the country’s deadly ...

“Torture” and “Sexual Threats” Detailed in Letters by Jailed Former UN Environment Consultant

“Torture” and “Sexual Threats” Detailed in Letters by Jailed Former UN Environment Consultant

February 20, 2020

Conservation Scientist Niloufar Bayani: "Every time I... sought help from the authorities, the pressures, threats, and acts of torture increased." Appeals Court Upheld Prison Sentences Against Conservationists on Baseless Charges and Coerced “Confessions” February 20, 2020 – A female former UN Environment consultant’s complaints of physical and psychological torture ...

Iran Moves to Silence Journalists, Activists Ahead of Parliamentary Elections

Iran Moves to Silence Journalists, Activists Ahead of Parliamentary Elections

February 11, 2020

Tehran-Based Reporter: “They Want Us to Stop Writing” February 11, 2020 – The intelligence arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is summoning journalists, raiding their homes and confiscating their electronic devices in a renewed campaign to silence criticism of state policies ahead of Iran’s parliamentary elections ...

Moore-Gilbert’s Letters from Revolutionary Guard’s Prison Ward Reveal Struggle to “Survive”

Moore-Gilbert’s Letters from Revolutionary Guard’s Prison Ward Reveal Struggle to “Survive”

January 21, 2020

January 21, 2020 - Since being jailed in the severely restrictive Ward-2A of Iran's Evin Prison, British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has struggled to obtain proper food and medication, and has been denied contact with the outside world including her family, she wrote in a series of ...

These Women and Men Inspired Us All

These Women and Men Inspired Us All

December 29, 2019

A grieving mother who vowed to continue pursuing her slain son’s pursuit of freedom. A housewife who lost her life while trying to save a victim of state violence. A prisoner of conscience who risked the last few freedoms she has to demand justice ...

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