Activists Welcome FIFA Deadline For Iran to Lift Discriminatory Ban on Women in Stadiums
Iran Only Country in the World That Bans Women From Football Stadiums FIFA Human Rights Body Recommends Using “Existing Leverage” For Iran to ...
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Iran Must Pass Legislation to Protect Women Against Violence
Bill Languishing for Years, While Women Are Abused with Impunity Women with Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Groups ...
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85 Countries Vote to Adopt UN Resolution Urging Iran to Halt Widespread Human Rights Violations
Editor's Note: This resolution was passed December 17, 2018, with 84 voting for, 30 against and 67 in ...
Iran’s Execution of Two Traders Convicted in Iran’s New Corruption Courts Is Unlawful
Vahid Mazloumin and Mohammad Esmail Ghassem Both Hanged at Dawn Despite Denials of ...
Attorney Must Be Released from Prison in Iran While Case is Under Appeal
Mohammad Najafi May Also Be Flogged Despite Health Concerns November 12, 2018—The attorney Mohammad Najafi is ...
Iran’s Corruption Courts Handing Out Death Sentences While Trampling on Rights to a Fair Trial
Five Death Sentence Issued in Preliminary Rulings, Two Upheld by Supreme Court November 7, 2018—Special courts set up by ...
Forced Psychiatric Hospitalization Cannot Become New Means of Silencing Dissent in Iran
*Editor's Update: Teachers’ rights activist HashemKhastar was released November 10, 2018, from the psychiatric facility in ...
Iran Must Stop Imprisoning Lawyers for Defending Their Clients
Mohammad Najafi is the Seventh Attorney to Be Sent to Prison in Last Six Months, Six Remain Behind Bars October ...
Iran’s Judiciary Should Release Ailing Prisoner Saeed Malekpour on Medical Grounds
Imprisoned in Iran's Evin Prison since 2008, Canadian permanent resident Saeed Malekpour ...
Iran Charges Environmentalists With National Security Crimes
Prosecutions Lacking Due Process Aimed at Deflecting Attention from Death of One of the Detainees October 23, 2018 – Nine ...
International Community Must Establish Mechanisms to Sell Humanitarian Goods to Iran, Iranian Government Must Ensure Affordability
Access to Medicines and Basic Foods in Iran Must Be Protected Economic Mismanagement and Sanctions Combine ...
Iranian Women Attend Men’s Soccer Game, Standing Firm Against State Ban and Hardline Threats
October 17, 2018 – After decades of activists peacefully campaigning against Iran’s state ban on women ...
Five Environmentalists Charged in Iran After Eight Months in Prison
* This article was last updated on October 10, 2018. October 8, 2018 – Five out of the eight environmentalists ...
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 ...
Iran Should Immediately Free Political Prisoner Arash Sadeghi on Medical Grounds
Denial of Medical Care to Political Prisoners Routine in Iran October 1, 2018 – Iranian authorities should immediately free political ...
Iran Should Fulfill Its UN Commitments and Recognize Sign Language
September 25, 2018—On the occasion of the International Day of Sign Languages and International Week of the ...
Rouhani Should Be Called to Account for Human Rights Abuses in Iran at UN Gathering
Mobile Billboard with Photos of Iran’s Political Prisoners to Circle UN Headquarters During Meetings September 19, 2018—As President Hassan Rouhani ...
Three Detained Women’s Rights Activists Should be Immediately Released
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 ...
Iran’s Execution of Three Kurdish Prisoners is Unlawful and Unjust
All Three Cases Rife with Denial of Due Process and Evidence of Torture and Forced Confessions ...
Iran’s Assault on Legal Profession Intensifies with Three More Attorneys Arrested
Seven Lawyers Now Behind Bars with More Summoned or Banned from Work *On September 6, after publication of ...
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, ...
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 ...
Judiciary’s Intensifying Crackdown on Defense Attorneys in Iran Must End
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 ...