Iran: Proposed Cyber Bill Gives Authorities Sweeping New Powers to Block and Punish Online Content
If Approved, Law Could Criminalize Any Content the Authorities Consider “False” July 29, ...
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UN Rights Chief Calls for Death Penalty Moratorium in Iran as Executions Skyrocket
At Least 48 People on Death Row, 12 at Imminent Risk of Execution “Proceedings consistently failed to meet due ...
‘They Said My Body Would Be Dumped in a Lake’: Kurdish Political Prisoner Details Brutal Torture in Detention
“We haven’t registered your name anywhere as a prisoner. So ...
Iran: Political Death Sentences Surge in Brutal Crackdown on Minorities
Torture, Forced Confessions and Sham Trials Drive Deadly State Campaign Against Kurds and Arabs July 16, 2025 — The Iranian government is ...
Iran Forcibly Deports Nearly 600,000 Afghan Migrants Amid Post-War Crackdown
Arrests and Deportations Follow Baseless Charges of Spying for Israel State ...
Op-Ed: Iran Is Terrorizing Its Own Citizens. The World Needs to Respond.
This article was originally published in The New York Times ...
Iran Launches Sweeping Crackdown: Hundreds Detained, Executions Underway
U.S. Must Confront Iran Over Human Rights Abuses in Upcoming Talks June ...
Lives of Prisoners in Iran in Immediate Danger
Global Leaders Must Demand Emergency Protections and Immediate Release of Political ...
Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran at Grave Risk Amid War
CHRI Warns Iran May Use Wartime Chaos to Execute Political Prisoners June ...
Iranian Political Prisoner in Evin Prison Urges Action to Protect Prisoners As War Escalates
Legal Scholar Asks for Emergency Furloughs and Releases for ...
Immediate Ceasefire Needed as Attacks on Civilians Intensify
Global Leaders Must Confront Growing Civilian Crisis with Urgency and Resolve June ...
CHRI: Civilians Must Not Be Targets in Iran
CHRI Urges Compliance with International Law June 12, 2025 — In ...
UNICEF’s Silence on Iran: Nobel Laureate Demands Action on Children’s Rights Abuses
Shirin Ebadi: UNICEF Headquarters Should Act Where Local Iran ...
Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested
Families Pressured to Remain Silent to Obtain Release of Loved Ones Largest ...
Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners
Systematic Denial of Medical Care in Iran: A Slow ...
Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
At Least 19 Writers and Poets Targeted in 2025, One Sentenced ...
Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers
New CHRI Fact Sheet Exposes Deepening Legal Crisis for Iran’s Embattled ...
‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist
May 5, 2025 — In a letter obtained by the ...
Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions
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
This article was originally published on The Hill. April 24, ...
Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency
Over 100 Executed in Just Three Months for Drug Offences Former Prisoner ...
EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals
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
Executions Follow Sham Trials and “Confessions” Extracted Under Torture At Least 50 ...
Landmark Resolution: UN Human Rights Council Expands Fact-Finding Mission on Iran
All of Iran’s Ongoing Human Rights Crimes To Be Investigated 24 States ...