Executions in Iran: World Must Respond with Strong Action Against State Killings of Protesters
Café Worker Mohsen Shekari, 23, Denied Due Process in Kangaroo Court December 8, 2022 – The execution today ...
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Iran Protests: Detained University Students Subjected to Sexual Assault, Disappearances
At Least 574 Known Students Arrested in Less Than Three Months, Actual Number Much Higher December 6, 2022 – Iranian police and state security forces have arrested at least 574 university students, according to research ...
Iran Protests: Juveniles Could Face Death Penalty in Kangaroo “Revolutionary” Court
Governments, UN Must Take Urgent Action to Protect Them November 30, 2022 – At least three juveniles are among 15 individuals ...
Iran: Key Labor Sectors Launch Major Strikes Amid Anti-State Protests
At Least a Dozen Labor Leaders Arrested in Effort to Crush Strikes Islamic Republic Should Be ...
Iran Protests: Massacre in Kurdish Areas Feared as Security Forces Launch Lethal Crackdown
Authorities Shut Down Internet to Prevent Evidence of State’s Atrocities from Reaching Outside World November 21, ...
Three More Children Killed as Iranian Merchants Close Shops in Solidarity with Uprising
November 18, 2022 – In a strong show of support for their country’s growing protest movement, and as children continue to be among those killed by state security forces, merchants in major cities ...
World Must Warn Iran Against Death Sentences for Protesters in Upcoming Mass Trials
Charges Carrying Possible Death Sentence Already Being Issued November 2, 2022 – With mass public trials ...
Witch Hunt in Iran: Grave Concerns for Journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi
Unable to Crush Protests, State Resorts to Smearing Female Reporters with Sham Accusations November 1, 2022 ...
Iran Protests: Doctors Treating Wounded Protesters Face Deadly State Violence
One Female Doctor Reportedly Killed, At Least Six Arrested October 31, 2022 – Reports of at least one doctor being killed by state security forces and at least six others being arbitrarily arrested at ...
Iran Protests: State Trying to Crush Dissent Through More Killings, Imprisonment
Prominent Teachers, Labor Leaders Slapped with Jail Time as 500+ Face Sham Charges October 24, 2022 – The ...
Hero Climber Elnaz Rekabi Deserves Support of Climbing Organizations, International Community
International Federation of Sport Climbing Should Suspend Islamic Republic’s Membership Serious Concerns ...
New Briefing: International Action Urgently Needed to Stop Carnage in Iran
U.S., World Must Collectively Address State Atrocities Against Peaceful Protesters in Iran Policy Paper Lays out Specific Actions ...
Breaking: Iran’s Enflamed Evin Prison Provokes Extreme Concerns
Defenseless Prisoners Barricaded Inside Embattled Prison Editor's update on Oct. 15, 7:01pm EST: A source in Tehran told CHRI that people were protesting near Evin ...
Iran Protests: Arrests of School Children Prompt Grave Fears of More Child Killings
Officials Paint Children as Enemies of the State, Claim They’re “Reforming” Kids At Least 28 Children ...
Iran Protests: Human Rights Lawyers Arrested, Teargassed
Unmarked Vans Rounded Up Dozens of Peaceful Protesters Outside Iranian Bar Association October 12, 2022 – ...
Iran Protests: Sanandaj Becomes Latest Killing Zone Amid Worsening State Violence
Oil Workers Wage Strikes in Solidarity with Nationwide Anti-State Demonstrations October 10, 2022 – The government ...
Iran Protests: Scores of Civil Society Members Detained “Preventatively”
Grave Concerns for Torture, Killings of Political Prisoners Amid Mass Arrests October 6, 2022 – Less than three ...
Students Violently Attacked, Arrested by Security Forces as Protests in Iran Spread
Students Trapped, Beaten, Tear Gassed, Taken to Unknown Locations Fears of Worsening Violence as ...
World Leaders Must Act Now to Avoid Bloodbath in Iran
Threat of Mass Deaths Grows as Government Seeks to Squash Protests September 26, 2022—With the government of Iran signaling it intends to silence the protests across Iran that are now well into their second ...
Joint Statement: U.S. Treasury’s New General License D2 Advances Internet Freedom in Iran
Now Companies Must Make Tech Products Available and U.S. Government Must Encourage Them September 26, 2022—Today, ...
Iran Protests: Grave Concerns for Extreme State Violence Amid Rising Death Toll
World Leaders Must Call on Iranian Officials to Immediately Cease Use of Lethal Force, Allow Peaceful Protest September ...
Iran’s Raisi to Freely Address UNGA While Crushing Rights and Freedoms at Home
Mahsa Amini’s Death in State Custody Should be Investigated as Murder World Must Condemn Violent Repression ...
Mahsa Amini is Another Victim of the Islamic Republic’s War on Women
Protesters in Tehran Call for “Death to the Oppressor” September 16, 2022 – The death of ...
Political Prisoner Behnam Mousivand’s Life is in Danger
Authorities in Iran Intentionally Deny Critical Medical Attention to Political Prisoners September 7, 2022 – A ...
UN, Governments Worldwide Must Speak Out for LGBTQ Activists Sentenced to Death in Iran
The international community should loudly and publicly condemn the blatantly unlawful death sentences issued without due process against two LGBTQ activists in West Azerbaijan Province, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a statement today ...