30+ Rights Groups Sound Alarm Over Grave Risks to Detainees in Iran Amid Blackout
January 14, 2025 — The Center for Human Rights in Iran has joined ...
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January 12, 2026
Exclusive Interview: Physician Treating Protesters in Iran Describes Mass Casualties, Overwhelmed Hospitals
“The images and data broadcast by international media do not represent even one percent of the reality, because ...
January 9, 2026
Grave Concern That State Massacre of Protesters is Underway in Iran Amid Internet Blackout
Internet Shutdown Preventing Critical Info on Killings from Reaching World January 9, 2026—The Center for Human ...
January 6, 2026
Iranian Authorities Intensify Crackdown on Protests with Live Fire, Arbitrary Arrests, and Attacks on Hospitals
More Than 27 Civilians Killed, including Six Children, Over 2000 Arrested Authorities' Crackdown Again Amounts to Crimes ...
December 28, 2025
UN: Iran Must Stop Execution of 67-Year-Old Iranian Woman
"What we see here is a mockery of justice that falls far short ...
December 17, 2025
Grave Concerns Over Detainees’ Safety Following Arrests at Slain Lawyer’s Memorial
39 Detained, Access to Lawyers and Families Denied, Brutal Interrogations Underway December 17, 2025 — Concerns are ...
December 12, 2025
Narges Mohammadi and other Activists Violently Arrested at Memorial Service for Slain Lawyer
Eyewitness: “Arrests were carried out with severe violence” Streets Blocked, Crowd Prevents Arrest of ...
December 11, 2025
Over 80 Iranian Lawyers Demand Transparency in Suspicious Death of Human Rights Lawyer Khosro Alikordi
Brother of Alikordi Summoned, Authorities Warn Activists Not to Give Any Speeches at Funeral December 11, 2025 ...
December 3, 2025
UN: Iran Must Halt Execution of Woman Survivor of Child Marriage and Abuse
“Her execution would constitute a grave violation of international human rights law” December 3, 2025 ...
November 25, 2025
Eight Political Prisoners at Grave Risk of Execution as Death Sentences Upheld
At least 42 Political Prisoners Currently Sentenced to Death in Iran Case of Ehsan Faridi, 22, Highlights ...
November 13, 2025
Victim of Child Marriage Faces Execution in Iran
Execution Scheduled for December Unless $90K Paid for Killing Abusive Husband Denied Lawyer During Interrogation, Coerced into ...
November 6, 2025
Writers and Scholars Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Iran
Whereabouts Unknown, No Contact with Families or Lawyers Iranian Authorities' Attack on Intellectuals Meant to Silence Any ...
November 3, 2025
Iran Shuts Down Oldest NGO Supporting Vulnerable Children, Detains Founder
NGO Leader Held Without Charge, Whereabouts Unknown, Denied Access to Family and Lawyer State’s Intensifying Assault on ...
November 3, 2025
UN: Iran’s Surge in Unlawful Executions May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity
November 3, 2025 — The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran has sounded the alarm ...
October 27, 2025
Iran’s Rappers: Voices of Dissent, Targets of the State
Artists Face Arrests, Torture, Forced Confessions, Prison October 27, 2025 — In Iran, rap music has become ...
October 23, 2025
Political Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Highlights Plight of Religious and Political Prisoners in Iran
Nasim Simiyari Protests Iran’s Brutal Persecution of Baha’is, Demands Release of Fariba Kamalabadi October ...
October 15, 2025
Iran’s New Tactics to Crush Mandatory Hijab Resistance: Business Raids and Surveillance
Closures, Undercover Agents, and Prosecutions Replace Street Patrols in New Phase of Mandatory Hijab Enforcement October 15, ...
October 7, 2025
Iran’s Qarchak Prison: A Place of Death That Must Be Closed
Three Women Prisoners Dead in Ten Days After Denial of Medical Care October 7, 2025 ...
September 30, 2025
Three Years After Bloody Friday, Iran Shields Commanders Behind the Massacre of Over 100 Protesters
"We Killed Them; Take Your Blood Money" Low-Level Officers Receive Light Sentences, Senior Officials Walk Free; Families ...
September 25, 2025
45 Women Political Prisoners in Iran Blame Authorities for Death of Somayeh Rashidi After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care
Woman Political Prisoner in Iran Is Dead After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care Many ...
September 24, 2025
Wave of Unlawful Arrests Targets Iran’s Minority Children
Children Held Incommunicado, Without Any Access to Families or Lawyers “The number of children who have been ...
September 22, 2025
Lives at Risk: An Urgent Call from Inside Evin Prison
A letter from imprisoned Iranian lawyers urging immediate medical care for their colleague, Taher ...
September 17, 2025
Iran Intensifies Crackdown on Teachers: Dozens Arrested, Fired, or Sentenced for Peaceful Union Activity
At Least 45 Teachers Unlawfully Targeted During Summer School Break “The judicial proceedings and security pressures ...
September 3, 2025
‘They see us as targets’: Iran’s Brutal Repression of Journalistic Freedom
‘Don’t step outside your house. You are going to be arrested again.’ September 3, ...
September 2, 2025
UN Human Rights Chief Demands Iran Cease All Executions
UN Says Iran Uses the Death Penalty “as a Tool of State Intimidation” Condemns “Disproportionate targeting of ethnic minorities and ...