29 Members of EU Parliament Urge Iran to Release Detained Journalists and Activists Ahead of 2017 Elections
Ahead of Iran’s elections on May 19 for president and local councils, 29 members of the European Parliament have written a ...
Ahead of Iran’s elections on May 19 for president and local councils, 29 members of the European Parliament have written a ...
Esmail Abdi, the imprisoned former leader of Iran’s largest teachers’ union, is suffering from a severe drop in blood ...
A number of prominent reformist politicians have been disqualified from running in Tehran’s City Council election despite being previously approved by the election monitoring committee. The list ...
Any citizen or candidate who attempts to disrupt the upcoming elections will receive a “hard slap in the face,” ...
A teacher in a port city in northern Iran has been exiled for singing to his students. Aziz Ghasemzadeh has been ordered ...
Articles Iran’s Supreme Leader Issues Familiar Anti-Protest Warning Ahead of 2017 Elections Any citizen or candidate who attempts to disrupt the upcoming elections will receive a “hard slap in the face," warned Khamenei in a ...
By preventing speeches in favor of President Hassan Rouhani and blocking his campaigners from reaching voters, hardliners ...
For the second time, Iranian authorities have allowed two-time Iranian Paralympic gold medalist Zahra Nemati to travel abroad ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, currently campaigning for a second term win in the May 19, 2017 ...
A reformist journalist who was detained and tortured in a secret detention center under the supervision of current Iranian presidential candidate ...
Political prisoner Hamid Babaei is being refused hospital treatment by the authorities of ...
Hengameh Shahidi Held Without Charge or Legal Counsel Since March 2017 More than 50 days into her hunger strike in Evin Prison in Tehran, ...
Presidential candidate Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf played a key role in major human rights violations as the commander of ...
For the second week in a row, the staff at the campaign headquarters of incumbent President ...
Speeches by reformist politicians and supporters of incumbent president Hassan Rouhani have been cancelled ahead of the May 19, 2017 presidential election, including two by former member of Parliament Faezeh Hashemi. Hashemi, an outspoken political activist and the ...
During a ceremony marking International Labor Day on May 1, 2017, President Hassan Rouhani, who will ...
To discourage users in Iran from accessing websites that have not been sanctioned by the government, mobile and internet service companies ...
Effectiveness of Legal Measure Remains Unclear The government of President Hassan Rouhani has announced the passage of a new amendment intended ...
The employer, and possibly the government are legally liable for the explosion at a coal mine in northern Iran that killed ...
Renowned scholar Dr. Ervand Abrahamian discusses the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners in Iran with CHRI. ...
After serving seven years, labor activist As’ad (Behnam) Ebrahimzadeh was released from Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, ...
Get caught up on Iran’s 2017 presidential and local council elections with a special weekly update by CHRI. ...
Gholamhossein Karbaschi, the reformist former mayor of Tehran and a supporter of President Hassan Rouhani, has ...
Not one of the candidates running for Iran’s presidency has an acceptable human rights record, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate ...
The campaign headquarters of reformists in Khorasan Razavi Province, northeastern Iran, was shuttered on May 2, 2017—three weeks before the country’s presidential and local council elections on May 19, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. ...