DONATE
فارسی | ENGLISH
Center for Human Rights in Iran Center for Human Rights in Iran
DONATE
  • Home
  • Press Releases
  • Issues
    • Right to Protest
    • Right to Health
    • Internet Freedom
    • Dual and Foreign Nationals
    • Disability Rights
    • Women’s Rights
    • Children’s Rights
    • Labor Rights
    • Right to Education
    • Art, Culture, Society
    • Prisoners / Arrests
    • Free Expression
    • Religious Freedom
    • Human Rights Defenders
    • Ethnic Discrimination
    • Assembly / Association
    • The U.N. and Iran
    • Executions / Life
    • Torture
    • Unfair Trials
  • Publications
  • Multimedia
    • Videos
    • Fact Sheets
    • Posters
    • GIFs & Graphics
    • Illustrations
    • Editorial Cartoons
    • Interactive
  • About Us
    • Donate to CHRI
    • Press Kit
    • Who We Are
    • What We Do
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Sign Up
  • Careers
Go to...

Press releases

Allow Activists Freedom of Movement

July 28, 2008

(28 July 2008) The Iranian government prevented Abdollah Momeni, a well-known human rights activist, from travelling to Malaysia to attend the upcoming Asia-Pacific Forum in Malaysia on 25 July, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Intelligence ...

New Arrests Target Student Activists

July 23, 2008

(23 July 2008) Security and intelligence agents are engaged in an extensive campaign of arbitrary detentions targeting student activists around the country, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. During the past two weeks, the authorities have detained ...

Juvenile Offender faces Imminent Execution despite Retraction of Sentence

July 21, 2008

(21 July 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is calling on the Iranian Judiciary to halt the imminent execution of Abu Moslem Sohrabi for a crime he allegedly committed at the age of 17. Local officials ...

Spare Four Youths From Execution

July 8, 2008

(Geneva, 08 July 2008) Today 24 international and regional human rights organizations called on Iranian authorities to spare four youths facing execution and to stop imposing the death penalty for crimes committed by juvenile offenders – persons who commit crimes ...

Women’s Rights Activist Sentenced to Five Years

June 21, 2008

(21 June 2008) Hana Abdi, a student and women’s rights activist from Sanandaj in Kurdistan who has been in prison since 4 November 2007, was sentenced on 18 June 2008 by Judge Tayari in Branch Two of the Sanandaj Revolutionary ...

114 Child Offenders Awaiting Hangman’s Noose

June 18, 2008

(18 June 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published a list of 114 child offenders awaiting execution in Iran today, the first time such a list has been made available detailing the practice, which has been banned ...

Former Student Detainees Terrorized by their Interrogators

June 16, 2008

(16 June 2008) Security and intelligence agents are regularly contacting and terrorizing nine former student detainees with threats of prosecution under the charge of apostasy that can result in execution sentences. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is ...

ALERT: Nine Iranian Women Released After Daylong Detention

June 12, 2008

(12 June 2008) According to latest information from Tehran, all nine women’s rights activists detained today by security forces have been released. Security forces had detained the nine women and prevented a gathering on the anniversary of Iran’s historic 12 ...

Child Offender Put to Death

June 11, 2008

(11 June 2008) Iranian authorities hung Mohammad Hassanzadeh, a youth sentenced to death when he was only 15 years old, on 10 June 2008, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Hassanzadeh, born in 1992, was under ...

Support of Iranian Women on the Anniversary of 12 June 2006 Demonstration

June 10, 2008

(10 June, 2008) We, the undersigned, representing international women’s and human rights organizations, express our solidarity with Iranian women, on 12 June 2008. This is the day identified by women’s rights activists in Iran as their national day of ...

Groups Urge Iran to Cooperate with UN Rights Bodies

June 6, 2008

(Geneva, 6 June 2008) – The Iranian government should cooperate with United Nations human rights bodies in order to address the ongoing human rights abuses in the country, a group of international human rights organizations said today. The Iranian government’s refusal ...

Imprisoned Cleric’s Life in Danger

June 1, 2008

(1 June 2008) The Iranian Judiciary should immediately release Ayatollah Boroujerdi, an imprisoned cleric, so he may receive urgently needed specialist medical care, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. Boroujerdi has been in prison since 2006, ...

Fatal Workplace Fire Highlights Need for Independent Workers Unions

May 29, 2008

(29 May 2008) Security forces and riot police attacked a peaceful gathering of thousands of workers from the Haft-Tapeh Sugar factory in the southern Iranian city of Shush on 26 May 2008, detaining 12 workers. The workers have been demonstrating ...

Urgent Appeal to Stop Imminent Juvenile Execution

May 21, 2008

(21 May 2008) The Iranian Judiciary should immediately stop the imminent execution of Saeed Jazzi for a crime he allegedly committed while he was under the age of 18, according to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. ...

Entire Baha’i Leadership in Iran Detained Without Charge

May 16, 2008

(16 May 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is calling on Iranian judicial authorities to account, in terms of Iranian and international law, for the detention on 14 May 2008 of six leading members of the Baha’i ...

An Appeal to the EU to Act, As Human Rights Deteriorate in Iran

May 7, 2008

(Brussels, 7 May 2008) The European Union (EU) should deny visas to Iranian officials who have participated in grave human rights abuses and freeze bank assets held in the EU, according to an appeal made by the International Campaign for ...

Report Documents the Persecution of Women’s Rights Activists in Iran

May 5, 2008

(5 May 2008) Iranian authorities have systematically thwarted peaceful and legal civil society efforts to advocate for women’s rights in Iran, abusing the legal system and gravely violating internationally protected civil rights in the process. “Equal Rights Denied—The Systematic Repression ...

Permit May Day Labor Observances

April 28, 2008

(28 April 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is appealing to Iranian authorities to allow independent labor activists to gather on 1 May to support fulfillment of their internationally guaranteed rights and express solidarity with one another. ...

Flogging and Prison Sentences for Women’s Rights Activists

April 22, 2008

(22 April 2008) The Iranian Judiciary has issued flogging and prison sentences for four campaigners for women’s rights, thus continuing its program of harassment and prosecution of the women’s rights movement. ...

Judiciary Must Review the Sentencing of Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad Ghasaban

April 20, 2008

(20 April, 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is appealing to the head of Iran’s Judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, to review the sentencing by an appeals court of three students, Ehsan Mansouri, Majid Tavakoli and Ahmad ...

Austrian Firm Should Delay Investment Pending Abolition of Child Executions

April 16, 2008

(16 April, 2008) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is urging the Austrian energy company Österreichische Mineralölverwaltung (OMV) to delay finalization of a 22 billion EURO investment agreement with the National Iranian Oil Company until Iran authorities agree ...

Students Resist Prosecution for Peaceful Protests

April 11, 2008

(11 April 2008) Students at Shiraz University are refusing to respond to summonses relating to their participation in peaceful protests in March. The students are reportedly outraged that the university administration is bringing charges of “causing rioting and chaos” against ...

“Inquisition Court” Sends Outspoken Cleric to Prison

April 9, 2008

(9 April 2008) Hadi Ghabel, an outspoken Iranian cleric and member of the central council of the reformist Participation Front, was imprisoned on April 7, beginning a 40 month term following prosecution and conviction by the Special Court for the ...

Detentions and Summonses Target Women, Students, and Labor Activists

April 9, 2008

(April 9, 2008) Iranian authorities marked the arrival of the Persian New Year with an extensive campaign of summonses and detentions of social and labor activists, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. ...

Judge Refuses to Release Imprisoned Labor Activist Who Completed His Sentence

April 7, 2008

(21 March 2008) Iranian Judiciary officials are refusing to free Mahmoud Salehi, an imprisoned union leader, who is due to complete his sentence on March 23, 2008. A prosecutor has brought new charges against Salehi relating to letters he published ...

1 … 37 38 39
  • Press Releases

    • Iran Launches Sweeping Crackdown: Hundreds Detained, Executions Underway
      June 26, 2025
    • Lives of Prisoners in Iran in Immediate Danger
      June 23, 2025
    • Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran at Grave Risk Amid War
      June 19, 2025
    • Iranian Political Prisoner in Evin Prison Urges Action to Protect Prisoners As War Escalates
      June 18, 2025
    • Immediate Ceasefire Needed as Attacks on Civilians Intensify
      June 16, 2025
    • CHRI: Civilians Must Not Be Targets in Iran
      June 12, 2025
    • UNICEF’s Silence on Iran: Nobel Laureate Demands Action on Children’s Rights Abuses
      June 11, 2025
    • Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested
      June 4, 2025
    • Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners
      May 27, 2025
    • Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
      May 20, 2025
    • Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers
      May 14, 2025
    • ‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist
      May 5, 2025
    • Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions
      April 30, 2025
    • Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People
      April 24, 2025
    • Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency
      April 16, 2025
    • EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals
      April 14, 2025
    • Five More Political Prisoners Hanged in Iran as Use of Death Penalty to Crush Dissent Surges
      April 9, 2025
    • Landmark Resolution: UN Human Rights Council Expands Fact-Finding Mission on Iran
      April 3, 2025
    • Imprisonment of Christians Jumps Six-Fold in Iran as Persecution Intensifies
      April 1, 2025
    • Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers
      March 18, 2025
    • 43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Renew Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies
      March 18, 2025
    • UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation
      March 14, 2025
    • Iranian Authorities Are Killing Prisoners by Denying Lifesaving Medical Care
      March 12, 2025
    • Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures
      March 6, 2025
    • Joint Statement: Stop the Imminent Deportation of Activist Nahid Modaressi to Iran
      February 25, 2025
    • Joint Statement: 20 Rights Organizations Alarmed by Appointment of Notorious Judge as Head of Iran's High Council for Human Rights
      February 20, 2025
    • Death Sentence for Woman Labor Activist In Iran Re-Issued
      February 19, 2025
    • FP: Trump’s Grand Bargain With Iran Shouldn’t Abandon Its People
      February 12, 2025
    • Sixteen Lawyers Slammed with Bogus Charges in Iran for Criticizing Government
      February 11, 2025
    • Two More Political Prisoners Join Dozens at Risk of Political Executions in Iran
      February 4, 2025
  • ×

    Stay
    Informed

    Get updates on the latest
    human rights issues in Iran

    Sign up for CHRI's newsletter.


    Get the latest Iran updates. Sign up for our newsletter.

    Lists*

    © 2019 Center for Human Rights in Iran (formerly known as International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran)