Young Woman Put to Death in Iran for Crime Committed as Juvenile
Zeinab Sekaanvand is Fifth Known Juvenile Offender Executed in Past Year October 2, 2018 – The Center for Human Rights in ...
Zeinab Sekaanvand is Fifth Known Juvenile Offender Executed in Past Year October 2, 2018 – The Center for Human Rights in ...
Denial of Medical Care to Political Prisoners Routine in Iran October 1, 2018 – Iranian authorities should immediately free political prisoner Arash ...
September 25, 2018—On the occasion of the International Day of Sign Languages and International Week of the ...
Mobile Billboard with Photos of Iran’s Political Prisoners to Circle UN Headquarters During Meetings September 19, 2018—As President Hassan Rouhani comes to ...
No Information on Charges or Where Hoda Amid, Najmeh Vahedi or Rezvaneh Mohammadi are Being Held, Families Denied Contact September 11, 2018—The three women’s rights activists arrested by Iran’s security forces since September ...
All Three Cases Rife with Denial of Due Process and Evidence of Torture and Forced Confessions ...
Seven Lawyers Now Behind Bars with More Summoned or Banned from Work *On September 6, after publication of ...
State Harassment, Arrest of Family Members to Silence Dissent Intensifies in Iran September 4, 2018—Reza Khandan, ...
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 ...
Seven Human Rights Lawyers Detained or Blocked from Working in Iran in Less Than a Year August 14, 2018—An intensifying state crackdown on human rights defenders in Iran, in which the authorities have ...
Mizan News Agency “Incites Violence Against Our Journalists” Says BBC August 9, ...
State Broadcasts of Family Members Used to Silence Activists (New York, August 9, 2018) – Iranian authorities ...
Iranian defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has been detained in Evin Prison under ...
Students and professors gather to protest at a university in Iran 120 Academics in ...
July 12, 2018--During a speech in March 2018, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed ...
Iran is one of world’s few countries executing juveniles; dozens currently on death row July 10, 2018—The execution of ...
“Due to the Injustices of Iran’s Judicial System I Had to Leave Iran” Draconian Sentences Demonstrate the Authorities’ Cultural ...
Authorities Ramp Up Crackdown on Social Media July 9, 2018—Forcing a teenage girl to confess on state TV for the ...
Human Rights Watch and the Center for Human Rights in Iran conducted in-depth interviews with 58 women and men with various disabilities, as well as with disability rights advocates and specialists across Iran. The World Health Organization and World Bank ...
June 22, 2018—In an open letter, prominent women of Iranian origin including Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, Oscar-nominated actress ...
Fear Grows After Bus Driver Was Executed in Iran Despite Similar Concerns June 20, 2018—The ...
This report examines the Iranian Judiciary’s ban on the Telegram messaging app, which as of 2018 was integrated into all aspects of daily life in Iran and had some 40 million active users in the country. It assesses what it ...
GENEVA, UN (18 June 2018) – UN human rights experts* have made a fresh ...
Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh ...
The undersigned organisations call on the Rouhani administration to challenge the order and call on the Judiciary to revoke the order and end this egregious violation of freedom of expression rights ...