Iran Locking Up Its Labor Activists as Worker Demands Grow
Growing Number of Activists Behind Bars for Asking for Their Rights Islamic Republic in Severe Violation of Its ILO Obligations July 17, 2024 – The recent ...
Growing Number of Activists Behind Bars for Asking for Their Rights Islamic Republic in Severe Violation of Its ILO Obligations July 17, 2024 – The recent ...
Mother of 12-Year-Old Was Tortured and Held Incommunicado in Solitary Credible and Corroborated Evidence of Fabricated Charges July 8, 2024 – The death sentence issued by ...
In a joint letter to the International Labor Organization (ILO), prominent imprisoned labor activists Reza Shahabi and Davoud Razavi have issued a stark reminder: ...
“They Hung Me from the Ceiling with Handcuffs” Escalating Political Executions in Iran Demand Strong International Response May 7, 2024 – In a brief, heart-wrenching ...
Atena Farghadani Beaten to the Point of Losing Consciousness International Community Must Demand Her Freedom April 30, 2024 – Atena Farghadani, a 37-year-old cartoonist ...
UN experts have called for the immediate release of rapper and songwriter Toomaj Salehi and urged Iranian authorities to overturn his unjust death ...
Rapper Toomaj Salehi's Death Sentence Marks New Low in Iran's Crackdown on Dissent April 24, 2024 – A death sentence issued in Iran against dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi underscores the glaring unlawfulness and injustice of the Islamic Republic’s ...
Sakineh Parvaneh Denied Access to Counsel, Imprisoned after Sham Trial Lawyer Who Tried to Defend Her Arrested and Also Tortured April 16, 2024 – Grave concerns are mounting for a young woman imprisoned in Iran, who has been denied counsel ...
Son Was Executed After Torture, Forced “Confessions” and Sham Trial April 1, 2024 – The ongoing state persecution of Mashallah Karami, whose son was unlawfully executed following protests that erupted across Iran in September 2022, epitomizes a wider campaign ...
Abbas Deris Sentenced to Death after Torture, Lack of Evidence, and Gross Due Process Violations Lawyer Being Prosecuted for Defending ...
Prisoners Will Endure Collective Hunger Strike Each Tuesday In an urgent, open letter appeal, a group of political and non-political prisoners facing death sentences ...
Mass Hunger Strike Launched by Women Prisoners of Conscience Spreading Quickly January 25, 2024 – The surge in executions in Iran has triggered a ...
Death Sentences Confirmed Within 24 Hours of Secret Trial, 18 Months of Incognito Detention Denied Independent Counsel and Right to Appeal Court Ruling January 18, 2024 – In the midst of a surge in executions in Iran, four ethnic Kurds ...
Relentless Campaign of Repression Seeks to Quash “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement Jan 16, 2024 – Three women prisoners of conscience in Iran, Nobel ...
IRGC’s Refusal to Hand Over Alleged Video “Evidence” Raises Concerns of Frame-Up January 11, 2024 – There are serious concerns for a group of ...
Toomaj Salehi Re-Arrested After Publicly Disclosing Plans to Sue State Requires Medical Treatment for Injuries Sustained in Prison December 5, 2023 – The arbitrary ...
Nobel Laureate Should Be Allowed to Travel to Oslo to See Family and Receive Prize The Center for Human Rights ...
November 17, 2023 – An arbitrarily detained woman, facing unjust imprisonment in Iran, has provided a detailed account of her violent abduction amid ...
Imprisoned for Peaceful Advocacy, Global Leaders Must Demand Her Immediate Release November 13, 2023 – Imprisoned Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi faces new charges that ...
Niloufar Hamedi Gets 13 Years Behind Bars and Elahe Mohammadi 12 Years Iranian Government Moves to Crush “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement On All Fronts October ...
Signatories, Including Wounded Protesters, Urge Investigation by UN’s Fact-Finding Mission and Support by International Medical Organizations October 9, 2023 — A group of more ...
UN and International Community Must Spotlight Cases, Demand End to Escalating Oppression 180 Reports of Baha’is Targeted by State Security ...
Religious Leaders of Minority Communities Are Arrested, Imprisoned, Defrocked for Supporting Protesters August 15, 2023 – Religious leaders of the Sunni Muslim communities in ...
Saman Yasin: Latest Victim of Iran’s Use of Forced Psychiatric Care to Punish Political Prisoners July 24, 2023 – The forced psychiatric hospitalization of ...
Fact-Finding Mission on Iran Must Vigilantly Monitor, Document Associated Abuses UN Should Call on Islamic Republic to Repeal Compulsory Hijab Law July 18, 2023 – ...