Iran Launches Sweeping Crackdown: Hundreds Detained, Executions Underway
U.S. Must Confront Iran Over Human Rights Abuses in Upcoming Talks June 26, 2025—Hundreds of ordinary citizens, members ...
Prisoners of Conscience
June 23, 2025
Lives of Prisoners in Iran in Immediate Danger
Global Leaders Must Demand Emergency Protections and Immediate Release of Political Prisoners Hundreds Being Arrested, Minorities Targeted, Judiciary Pledges ...
June 19, 2025
Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran at Grave Risk Amid War
CHRI Warns Iran May Use Wartime Chaos to Execute Political Prisoners June 19, 2025 — As the war between ...
June 18, 2025
Iranian Political Prisoner in Evin Prison Urges Action to Protect Prisoners As War Escalates
Legal Scholar Asks for Emergency Furloughs and Releases for Trapped Prisoners June 18, 2025 ...
June 16, 2025
Immediate Ceasefire Needed as Attacks on Civilians Intensify
Global Leaders Must Confront Growing Civilian Crisis with Urgency and Resolve June 16, 2025 — As the ...
June 12, 2025
CHRI: Civilians Must Not Be Targets in Iran
CHRI Urges Compliance with International Law June 12, 2025 — In light of the outbreak of ...
June 11, 2025
UNICEF’s Silence on Iran: Nobel Laureate Demands Action on Children’s Rights Abuses
Shirin Ebadi: UNICEF Headquarters Should Act Where Local Iran Office Has Failed June 11, ...
June 4, 2025
Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested
Families Pressured to Remain Silent to Obtain Release of Loved Ones Largest Labor Protests in Years Gain ...
May 27, 2025
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 and Silent Execution May 27, 2025 ...
May 20, 2025
Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
At Least 19 Writers and Poets Targeted in 2025, One Sentenced to Death “Lawyers working on such ...
May 14, 2025
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 Lawyers Vanishing Defenders: Fewer Than 12 ...
May 5, 2025
‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist
May 5, 2025 — In a letter obtained by the Center for Human Rights in ...
April 30, 2025
Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions
19 Labor Activists Still Imprisoned, One Woman at Risk of Execution Over 2000 Workers Dead in Last ...
April 24, 2025
Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People
This article was originally published on The Hill. April 24, 2025 By Michael ...
April 16, 2025
Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency
Over 100 Executed in Just Three Months for Drug Offences Former Prisoner and Lawyers Reveal Blatantly Unlawful ...
April 14, 2025
EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals
Collective Action Is Only Way to Address Iran’s Hostage Taking Conditions of Imprisoned Dual ...
April 9, 2025
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 Political Prisoners Now Facing Execution ...
April 3, 2025
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 Vote to Expand Accountability for ...
April 1, 2025
Imprisonment of Christians Jumps Six-Fold in Iran as Persecution Intensifies
Judge to Christian: “It’s a disgrace that you are even breathing the air in this ...
March 18, 2025
Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers
Iran’s Lawyers in a “Perilous Position,” Face Arrest, Torture and Imprisonment Statement Asks UN to Relay Concerns ...
March 18, 2025
43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Renew Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies
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 Rights in Iran (CHRI), has ...
March 14, 2025
UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation
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 Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on ...
March 12, 2025
Iranian Authorities Are Killing Prisoners by Denying Lifesaving Medical Care
At Least Four Prisoners Dead in Just Two Months CHRI Speaks to Cellmate of Political Prisoner Who ...
March 6, 2025
Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures
This International Women’s Day, the World Must Declare Gender Apartheid a Crime Against Humanity March 6, 2025 ...
February 25, 2025
Joint Statement: Stop the Imminent Deportation of Activist Nahid Modaressi to Iran
Refugees in Turkey at High Risk of Imprisonment, Torture if Returned to Iran February 25, 2025 — We, the undersigned organizations, urgently call ...