Leaked Iranian State Document: Expect Protests to Get Bigger and More Frequent
High-Level Intelligence Official: “Social Discontent Has Increased About 300 Percent” A top-secret Iranian state document leaked to RFE/RL’s Radio Farda has ...
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February 3, 2022
Interview: Suppressing Teachers’ Protests Would be a “Great Risk” for Iran’s Government
Sattar Rahmani, a former teacher and political prisoner in Iran, is an expert on the country's ...
January 31, 2022
Five-Minute Trial Resulted in Narges Mohammadi’s Eight-Year Prison Sentence
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 ...
January 29, 2022
Iran’s Violent Crushing of Protests Followed by Growth of Security State
IRGC Commanders Appointed as Governor-Generals to 10 of Iran’s 31 Provinces “People’s tolerance level has decreased in recent years, given the ...
January 25, 2022
Hostage Benjamin Briere’s “Price” Raised as Judge Imposes Eight-Year Prison Term
Iran “Toying” with Foreign and Dual Nationals Amid Nuclear Talks to Extract Concessions Lawyer: Briere's Arbitrarily Increased Sentence is “Unlawful” January 25, 2022 – ...
January 24, 2022
Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Sentenced to Another Eight Years in Prison
Situation of Political Prisoners Worsens as Iranian Government’s Assault on Peaceful Dissent Intensifies Activists, Lawyers, Dissidents being Kept Behind Bars with Continuous New ...
January 22, 2022
New Interrogations at Iran’s Airports, Jailing of Dual Citizens Challenge Officials’ Calls for Expatriates to Return
Reports of security agents at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport singling out travelers returning from European destinations to collect “financial and ...
January 20, 2022
Interview: Mina Khani on the “Serious Ramifications” for Women in Iran’s New Population Growth Law
Mina ...
January 14, 2022
UN Decries Imminent Execution of Juvenile Offender Hossein Shahbazi in Iran
Session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Another juvenile offender, Hossein Shahbazi, is in imminent danger of being executed in Iran after being sentenced to death as a ...
January 11, 2022
Imprisoned Journalist Keyvan Samimi is Being Led to His Death
The life of veteran journalist and political activist Keyvan Samimi is in danger as he continues to be unlawfully kept behind bars in Tehran’s Evin Prison despite state officials’ recommendations that he be released to receive treatment for serious health problems ...
January 10, 2022
Families of Victims in Downed Passenger Plane Refuse Iranian Compensation: “No Justice Without the Truth”
Iranian President Ebrahim “Raisi has called for payment of compensation because most of the families have turned it down,” Soleimani told CHRI. “For them, the most important issue is discovering the truth and implementing justice” ...
January 8, 2022
Iranian Poet Baktash Abtin Dies After Being Arbitrarily Detained in Iran
Abtin, Jailed for Dissent, is Second Political Prisoner to Die in Iran in First Week of 2022 January 8, 2022 – ...
January 6, 2022
Downed Passenger Plane: Iran’s Government Should Allow People to Freely Mourn, Pursue Justice
Families Call for Independent UN Investigation January 6, 2022 – While commemorating the second anniversary of the killing of 176 people aboard Ukrainian ...
January 3, 2022
Writer in Coma, Another Political Prisoner Dead after Unjust Imprisonment in Iran
Baktash Abtin (left) and Adel Kianpour (right). Concerns Mount for Prisoners Under Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i COVID-19 ...
December 22, 2021
UN Experts Condemn Secret Execution of Kurdish Prisoner in Iran
UN human rights experts today strongly condemned the execution in Iran of political prisoner Heydar (or Heidar) Ghorbani, who was ...
December 21, 2021
Support Human Rights in Iran and Your Donation Will be Matched
Dear Friend and Supporter, While families around the world come together to celebrate the holiday season, we ask that you remember the people ...
December 17, 2021
UN Adopts Resolution Criticizing Iran’s Human Rights Abuses
On December 16, 2021, the UN General Assembly adopted draft resolution II, “Situation of human rights in the ...
December 13, 2021
Teachers Across Iran Protest for Fair Pay, Release of Jailed Colleagues
Teachers and supporters protested in the streets of more than 119 Iranian cities across Iran ...
December 9, 2021
Joint Statement: Free Arbitrarily Detained Right to Health Defenders in Iran
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 ...
December 8, 2021
Khuzestan Kangaroo Court Sentences Two Protesters to Death, Life in Prison
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 ...
November 29, 2021
Isfahan: Instead of Crushing Protests, the Iranian Government Should Solve Its Water Crisis
The Iranian security and military forces’ violent crackdown on large protests in the city of Isfahan that broke out over severe state mismanagement of water resources is more evidence of the Ebrahim Raisi government’s policy of zero tolerance of public criticism and dissent ...
November 29, 2021
Who Will Support the People of Iran?
Dear Friends and Supporters, The Iranian people have risked and lost their lives protesting the unjust policies of their government, given up years ...
November 24, 2021
UN Calls on Iran to Commute Death Sentences Against Child Offenders Upon Execution of Arman Abdolali
The United Nations has strongly condemned the execution of child offender Arman Abdolali in a press release republished below. Comment by UN Human ...
November 19, 2021
Victims of State Oppression Defy Iranian Government’s Denial of the Right to Mourn
The right to mourn is a human right, yet totalitarian regimes have long tried to deny this right to families who’ve lost ...
November 17, 2021
Renowned Activist Narges Mohammadi Arrested on Anniversary of Historic Protests
Mother of Two Facing Flogging, Prison—Two Years After Completing 5.5-Year Sentence November 17, 2021 – The prominent rights advocate Narges Mohammadi was ...