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 Protests ...
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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 week, ...
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, the Public ...
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 ...
Sepideh Rashnoo: Latest Target of Raisi Government’s Campaign of Repression
*Editor's Note: Sepideh Rashnoo was released on bail on August 30, 2022, while she awaits her trial. August 23, 2022 – Charges filed against a woman in Iran, Sepideh Rashnoo, after she was ...
Salman Rushdie is Yet Another Victim of Iran’s Extraterritorial Censorship
Government of Iran Has Long Targeted its Critics Abroad for Assassination August 15, 2022 – The heinous attack in New York on the author Salman Rushdie, in which a knifeman inflicted life-threatening injuries, stems ...
Human Rights Can and Should be Front and Center in U.S. Foreign Policy on Iran
Prioritizing human rights represents the most effective means for the U.S. to influence Iranian state behavior and address the Islamic Republic’s destabilizing activities, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a new Q&A, “Prioritizing Human Rights in Iran: A ...
UN Should Condemn Renewed Crackdown on Persecuted Baha’i Faith in Iran
August 5, 2022 – Increasing arbitrary arrests of members of the persecuted Baha’i faith in Iran, and an intensifying government-sponsored campaign of destruction and confiscation of their properties should be internationally condemned, said ...
Nouri Conviction by Swedish Court a Triumph for Iran’s “Seeking-Justice” Movement
Conviction Opens Door for More Trials Against Officials Accused of Atrocities July 14, 2022 -- After ...
Heightened Reign of Terror in Iran Under New Intelligence Chief
Less than a month after the intelligence chief of the Iranian military’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was replaced, a crackdown on dissent is being ramped up in the country ...
400+ Iranian Human Rights Leaders Urge Belgium to Drop Prisoner Swap Treaty with Iran
Treaty Encourages Hostage-Taking, Would Return Convicted Terrorist to Iran July 5, 2022 – More than 400 ...
EU Should Loudly Condemn Iran’s Baseless Jailing of French Tourist Benjamin Brière
Iranian Court Refers to France as an “Enemy Government” June 28, 2022 – Countries negotiating with Iran over ...
Borrell, EU Must Speak Out Against Growing Human Rights Crisis in Iran
Same Efforts Applied to Nuclear Deal Can and Should Be Given to Human Rights President Biden Has Also ...
In Cahoots with the State, Iranian Court Sentences Lawyers, Activists Trying to Sue Officials to Prison
Supreme Leader’s COVID Vaccine Ban Resulted in Thousands of Unnecessary Deaths June 22, 2022 – ...
International Community Should Call on Iran to End Punitive Amputations
Eight Prisoners Could Soon See Their Fingers Cut Off June 15, 2022 – In ...
Policy Briefing: Human Rights in Iran and U.S. National Security Interests
Repression of Civil Society Harms U.S. Security Interests June 14, 2022— President Biden’s silence so far ...
Rights Groups Call on Meta to Fix Persian Content Moderation for Instagram
June 9, 2022 — In a joint statement released today, human rights organizations ARTICLE 19, Access Now, ...
Iran Should Be Ejected from ILO’s Governing Board Says Iran’s National Teacher Organization
Open Letter Condemns Iran’s “Brutal Repression” of Trade Unions and Labor Activists June 2, 2022—In an open letter to the delegates at the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 110th Session of the ...
As Millions Face Poverty, Iran’s Government Dissolves Largest NGO for the Poor
May 26, 2022 – While millions of Iranians are struggling to make ends meet, the Iranian government has shut down the country’s oldest and largest independent non-governmental organization (NGO) focused on poverty alleviation, ...
Protesters Killed While Iran’s Government Blocks Internet and Media Coverage
May 17, 2022 – At least five protesters are dead amid a violent state crackdown on street demonstrations in Iran, while the authorities have blocked internet access in protest hot zones, pressured ...
Iran Protesters at Risk of Lethal State Violence
International Community Must Call on Iranian Officials to Refrain from Deadly Repression May 12, 2022 – Ongoing street protests in Iran could lead to more killings and arbitrary imprisonments by state security forces if ...
Activists Urge UN Rep to Meet Them During Trip to Iran
Government’s Refusal to Allow UN Human Rights Experts into Country Condemned May 12, 2022 -- A group of prominent civil rights activists in Iran has called on UN representative Alena Douhan, who ...