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Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested

Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested

June 4, 2025

Families Pressured to Remain Silent to Obtain Release of Loved Ones Largest Labor ...

Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners

Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners

May 27, 2025

Systematic Denial of Medical Care in Iran: A Slow and Silent ...

Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences

Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences

May 20, 2025

At Least 19 Writers and Poets Targeted in 2025, One Sentenced to Death “Lawyers ...

Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers

Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers

May 14, 2025

New CHRI Fact Sheet Exposes Deepening Legal Crisis for Iran’s Embattled ...

‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist

‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist

May 5, 2025

May 5, 2025 — In a letter obtained by the ...

Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions

Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions

April 30, 2025

19 Labor Activists Still Imprisoned, One Woman at Risk of Execution Over ...

Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People

Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People

April 24, 2025

This article was originally published on The Hill. April 24, ...

Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency

Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency

April 16, 2025

Over 100 Executed in Just Three Months for Drug Offences  Former Prisoner ...

EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals

EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals

April 14, 2025

Collective Action Is Only Way to Address Iran’s Hostage ...

Five More Political Prisoners Hanged in Iran as Use of Death Penalty to Crush Dissent Surges

Five More Political Prisoners Hanged in Iran as Use of Death Penalty to Crush Dissent Surges

April 9, 2025

Executions Follow Sham Trials and “Confessions” Extracted Under Torture At Least 50 ...

Landmark Resolution: UN Human Rights Council Expands Fact-Finding Mission on Iran

Landmark Resolution: UN Human Rights Council Expands Fact-Finding Mission on Iran

April 3, 2025

All of Iran’s Ongoing Human Rights Crimes To Be Investigated 24 States ...

Imprisonment of Christians Jumps Six-Fold in Iran as Persecution Intensifies

Imprisonment of Christians Jumps Six-Fold in Iran as Persecution Intensifies

April 1, 2025

Judge to Christian: “It’s a disgrace that you are even ...

Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers

Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers

March 18, 2025

Iran’s Lawyers in a “Perilous Position,” Face Arrest, Torture and Imprisonment Statement ...

43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Renew Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies

43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Renew Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies

March 18, 2025

Work of the Special Rapporteur and the Fact-Finding Mission Deemed Critical Given “Full-fledged Human Rights Crisis” in Iran March 18, 2025 – A broad coalition of international human rights organizations, including the Center for Human ...

UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation

UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation

March 14, 2025

Fact-Finding Mission Cites Widescale Murder, Imprisonment, Torture and Rape UN: Systematic Abuses Continue, Accountability Outside Iran Should be Pursued March 14, 2025 – In a new report based on a two-year investigation, the UN ...

Iranian Authorities Are Killing Prisoners by Denying Lifesaving Medical Care

Iranian Authorities Are Killing Prisoners by Denying Lifesaving Medical Care

March 12, 2025

At Least Four Prisoners Dead in Just Two Months CHRI Speaks to ...

Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures

Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures

March 6, 2025

This International Women’s Day, the World Must Declare Gender Apartheid a ...

Joint Statement: Stop the Imminent Deportation of Activist Nahid Modaressi to Iran

Joint Statement: Stop the Imminent Deportation of Activist Nahid Modaressi to Iran

February 25, 2025

Refugees in Turkey at High Risk of Imprisonment, Torture if Returned to Iran February 25, 2025 — We, ...

Joint Statement: 20 Rights Organizations Alarmed by Appointment of Notorious Judge as Head of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights

Joint Statement: 20 Rights Organizations Alarmed by Appointment of Notorious Judge as Head of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights

February 20, 2025

February 20, 2025 — In a joint statement released today, the ...

Death Sentence for Woman Labor Activist In Iran Re-Issued

Death Sentence for Woman Labor Activist In Iran Re-Issued

February 19, 2025

Sharifeh Mohammadi’s Second Death Sentence Imposed on Her Son’s 13th Birthday Three Women Political Prisoners Face Execution on ...

FP: Trump’s Grand Bargain With Iran Shouldn’t Abandon Its People

FP: Trump’s Grand Bargain With Iran Shouldn’t Abandon Its People

February 12, 2025

Trump has significant leverage to negotiate a new nuclear deal with Tehran that also protects protesters. ...

Sixteen Lawyers Slammed with Bogus Charges in Iran for Criticizing Government

Sixteen Lawyers Slammed with Bogus Charges in Iran for Criticizing Government

February 11, 2025

Lawyers Who Defended Woman Life Freedom Protesters Targeted for Prosecution Notorious Prosecutor Involved in Death of Iranian-Canadian Journalist ...

Two More Political Prisoners Join Dozens at Risk of Political Executions in Iran

Two More Political Prisoners Join Dozens at Risk of Political Executions in Iran

February 4, 2025

Iran Using the Gallows to Terrorize Population into Silence Severe Violations of Due Process and Fair Trial ...

Iran’s Campaign of Terror Against Minorities Surges Across Country

Iran’s Campaign of Terror Against Minorities Surges Across Country

January 29, 2025

State Commits Mass Violent Crimes as It Moves to Suppress Dissent Huge Surge in Mass Arrests, Violence, and ...

Iran’s Judiciary Shields Perpetrators of ‘Bloody Friday’ State Massacre

Iran’s Judiciary Shields Perpetrators of ‘Bloody Friday’ State Massacre

January 23, 2025

Senior Officials Protected, Low-Ranking Officers Receive Reduced Sentences  Lawyers for Victims Arrested, Evidence Suppressed, Families Pressured to ...

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  • Press Releases

    • Over 200 Schoolchildren Killed by Security Forces in Iran: ‘They’ve Effectively Massacred an Entire School’
      February 12, 2026
    • Unreported Atrocities: Eyewitnesses Detail Massive and Deadly State Crackdown Against Protesters in Iran’s Provincial Cities
      January 30, 2026
    • Statement From Physicians in Iran: ‘Being a Doctor Is Not a Crime’
      January 29, 2026
    • UN Human Rights Council Extends Iran Fact-Finding Mission, Condemns 'Deadliest Crackdown against Iranian People Since 1979 Revolution'
      January 26, 2026
    • Iran: Mass Violent Arrests, Forced Confessions, Lawyers Blocked, Escalating Risk of Executions of Protesters 
      January 23, 2026
    • 30+ Rights Groups Sound Alarm Over Grave Risks to Detainees in Iran Amid Blackout
      January 15, 2026
    • Exclusive Interview: Physician Treating Protesters in Iran Describes Mass Casualties, Overwhelmed Hospitals
      January 12, 2026
    • Grave Concern That State Massacre of Protesters is Underway in Iran Amid Internet Blackout
      January 9, 2026
    • Iranian Authorities Intensify Crackdown on Protests with Live Fire, Arbitrary Arrests, and Attacks on Hospitals
      January 6, 2026
    • UN: Iran Must Stop Execution of 67-Year-Old Iranian Woman
      December 28, 2025
    • Grave Concerns Over Detainees’ Safety Following Arrests at Slain Lawyer’s Memorial
      December 17, 2025
    • Narges Mohammadi and other Activists Violently Arrested at Memorial Service for Slain Lawyer
      December 12, 2025
    • Over 80 Iranian Lawyers Demand Transparency in Suspicious Death of Human Rights Lawyer Khosro Alikordi
      December 11, 2025
    • UN: Iran Must Halt Execution of Woman Survivor of Child Marriage and Abuse
      December 3, 2025
    • Eight Political Prisoners at Grave Risk of Execution as Death Sentences Upheld
      November 25, 2025
    • Victim of Child Marriage Faces Execution in Iran
      November 13, 2025
    • Writers and Scholars Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Iran
      November 6, 2025
    • Iran Shuts Down Oldest NGO Supporting Vulnerable Children, Detains Founder
      November 3, 2025
    • UN: Iran’s Surge in Unlawful Executions May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity
      November 3, 2025
    • Iran’s Rappers: Voices of Dissent, Targets of the State
      October 27, 2025
    • Political Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Highlights Plight of Religious and Political Prisoners in Iran
      October 23, 2025
    • Iran’s New Tactics to Crush Mandatory Hijab Resistance: Business Raids and Surveillance
      October 15, 2025
    • Iran’s Qarchak Prison: A Place of Death That Must Be Closed
      October 7, 2025
    • Three Years After Bloody Friday, Iran Shields Commanders Behind the Massacre of Over 100 Protesters
      September 30, 2025
    • 45 Women Political Prisoners in Iran Blame Authorities for Death of Somayeh Rashidi After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care
      September 25, 2025
    • Wave of Unlawful Arrests Targets Iran’s Minority Children 
      September 24, 2025
    • Lives at Risk: An Urgent Call from Inside Evin Prison
      September 22, 2025
    • Iran Intensifies Crackdown on Teachers: Dozens Arrested, Fired, or Sentenced for Peaceful Union Activity
      September 17, 2025
    • ‘They see us as targets’: Iran’s Brutal Repression of Journalistic Freedom
      September 3, 2025
    • UN Human Rights Chief Demands Iran Cease All Executions
      September 2, 2025
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