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September 5, 2018

Women Activists Arrested for Trying to Raise Awareness of Women’s Rights in Marriage and Divorce

Women’s rights activists Hoda Amid and Najmeh Vahedi were arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization in Tehran ...

September 4, 2018

Detained Civil Rights Activist Refusing to Break Hunger Strike

Farhad Meysami Thin and Pale after More than a Month on Hunger Strike Farhad Meysami, ...

September 4, 2018

Husband of Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer, Arrested for Speaking Out, Must Be Released Immediately

State Harassment, Arrest of Family Members to Silence Dissent Intensifies in Iran September 4, 2018—Reza Khandan, the husband of imprisoned human rights lawyer ...

August 31, 2018

Tehran Penitentiary Guards Launch “Brutal” Attack on Imprisoned Sufi Muslims

Guards in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) attacked and beat detainees inside Ward 3 ...

August 31, 2018

University Student Sentenced to Seven Years Imprisonment in Iran as Another is Ordered to Attend Friday Prayers

As Iran continues to imprison university students for attending protests, a judge in the city of Semnan, ...

August 31, 2018

Fighting Between IRGC and Kurdish Forces Results in More Deaths of Iran’s Border Couriers

At least one courier has been killed and five other people injured near Iran’s border with Iraq since August 23, 2018, the Center ...

August 30, 2018

Zaghari-Ratcliffe Told Furlough Would be Extended Before Being Sent Back to Prison

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August 29, 2018

Four Christians in Iran Appeal Prison Sentences For Alleged Missionary Activities

Four Christians in Iran, including two converts, have appealed their prison sentences for alleged missionary activities, arguing that they’re innocent ...

August 28, 2018

Iranian American Prisoner in Iran, Baquer Namazi, On Medical Leave

Lawyers File Appeals With Iran’s Supreme Court and the UN Baquer Namazi, an Iranian American dual national who was imprisoned ...

August 28, 2018

Kurdish Death Row Inmate Sews Lips Shut in Hunger Strike Against Denial of Rights

Ramin Hossein Panahi, a Kurdish man in danger of imminent execution in Iran, has sewn his lips shut to protest the ...

August 27, 2018

Detained Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Refuses to Appear in Court, Begins Hunger Strike

Sotoudeh Facing Seven “National Security” Charges as Judiciary Continues to Build Case Against Her Prominent defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has gone on hunger strike and ...

August 25, 2018

Journalist Recounts “Inhumane” Living Conditions at Tehran Penitentiary

An Iranian journalist who was detained at Iran’s Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary (GTCP) has written ...

August 24, 2018

Fourth Human Rights Lawyer Slapped With National Security Charges in Iran

Arash Keykhosravi, a lawyer representing the family of an Iranian Canadian man who recently died under suspicious circumstances in state custody, has been slapped with national security charges, making him the fourth defense attorney detained under this pretense in Iran ...

August 24, 2018

Iran Sanctions “Unjust and Harmful,” Says UN Expert Warning Against Generalised Economic War

Mr. Idriss Jazairy, Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures GENEVA (22 ...

August 24, 2018

Iranian Journalist Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison For Criticizing Ultra-Conservative Cleric in a Tweet

Amir Mohammad Hossein Miresmaili, a former journalist and satirist for the Jahan Sana’at (Industry World) newspaper in Iran, has been sentenced ...

August 23, 2018

Too Little, Too Late: Iran Should Permanently Release Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

August 23, 2018 - The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges the Iranian Judiciary to turn the three-day furlough it has granted to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe into permanent and unconditional release. "Three days of ...

August 23, 2018

Intelligence Agents Raid Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Home, Taking Pins as Evidence  

“They’re going to use the pins as criminal evidence, as if they had found bombs” Iranian security agents raided the homes of ...

August 23, 2018

Imprisoned Iranian Mystic Mohammad Ali Taheri Expects to Be Freed “This Week”

Shiite mystic Mohammad Ali Taheri, who has been imprisoned in Iran since 2011, expects to be freed on parole “soon,” according to his lawyer ...

August 22, 2018

Iranian Law Should Allow People With Disabilities to Make Their Own Legal Decisions

Ten years after Iran’s Parliament ratified the UN’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), ...

August 22, 2018

60 European MPs Call on President Rouhani to Work For Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Release

Iranian defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh was detained on June 13, 2018, ...

August 22, 2018

Unpaid Workers Arrested at Protests Against Iran’s Biggest Sugar Production Company

After security forces attempted to violently repress protests at the Haft Tappeh sugarcane company in southeastern Iran, at least ...

August 21, 2018

Former Tehran Mayor Sentenced to Prison For Criticizing Iran’s Involvement in Syrian War

Former Mayor of Tehran Gholamhossein Karbaschi has been sentenced to one year in prison for publicly criticizing Iran’s involvement in the Syrian civil war, an ...

August 20, 2018

Mass Conviction of Sufi Protesters “Unprecedented in Iran’s Judicial History”

Twenty Sufi Muslims, all members of Iran’s Gonabadi Order, have been issued heavy prison sentences by the ...

August 17, 2018

Prolonged Detention of Environmentalists “None of Your Business,” Iran’s Judiciary Tells Vice President

The chief of Iran’s Department of Environment, Vice President Isa Kalantari, has told state media that the judiciary has ...

August 17, 2018

Judicial Official Refuses to Lift Iran’s Ban on Twitter Despite Growing Use by State Officials

Iran's hardline prosecutor general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri. After ...

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