Iran Election: Political Prisoners Dying Under Candidate Raisi’s Watch
At Least Two Political Prisoners Have Died in Past Four Months Niknafs Was Jailed Despite Health Conditions That Made Him Unfit for Prison June 7, ...
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June 1, 2021
More Defense Attorneys Prosecuted in Iran for Defending Human Rights
The state policy of persecuting and imprisoning independent defense lawyers under false charges for doing their jobs is continuing under Iranian Judiciary Chief ...
May 18, 2021
For Iran’s Lawyers, Defending Dissidents Is Getting Dangerous (Commentary Published in World Politics Review)
Internationally renowned human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh is among at least five defense ...
April 30, 2021
Labor Day in Iran: Listen to the People’s Demands for Basic Rights
Unpaid Wages and Benefits, Unfair Wages Trigger Increasingly Organized Strikes Labor Activists Jailed Under Trumped-Up Charges April 30, 2021 – As International ...
April 27, 2021
“Show Trials” of Dual Nationals Will Continue Until P5+1 Creates United Front Against Hostage-Taking
April 27, 2021 – World powers negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program should present a joint stance against Iran’s cruel ...
April 19, 2021
Sharif University Honor Students Tortured, Detained in High-Security Ward
A year after agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry arrested and tortured them, university students Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi remain ...
April 14, 2021
Iranian Government Responsible to Protect Prisoners against Fourth Wave of COVID
Prisoners Trapped in Overcrowded, Unhygienic Prisons without Adequate Medical Care April 14, 2021—The start of a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic ...
March 24, 2021
Traditional New Year Furloughs and Other Privileges Denied to Iran’s Political Prisoners
Lawyer: “Humanity, in addition to the rule of law, has vanished” Political prisoners in Iran, long subjected to especially harsh treatment in Iran’s ...
March 19, 2021
UN to Iran: Ahmadreza Djalali Nearing Death in Solitary Confinement, Torture Must End Now
Persian version (PDF) GENEVA, UN Press Release (18 March 2021) — UN human rights experts* today demanded that Iranian authorities ...
March 15, 2021
French National Benjamin Briere Tried on National Security Charges in Iran
Ten months after being arrested in Iran, a French national has been charged with “espionage” and “propaganda against ...
March 12, 2021
Iranian Courts are Unlawfully Banishing Political Prisoners Into “Prison Exile”
*Editor's Note: Transfers that occurred after this article was published are listed at the bottom. Iran’s judicial system has a long, documented history of ...
March 9, 2021
For Translating a Book About Syria, Arash Ganji Must Serve 5 Years in an Iranian Prison
Arash Ganji, a translator and secretary of the board of directors of the ...
February 26, 2021
Non-Persian Mother Languages Treated as “National Security Threat” in Iran
As the world marked International Mother Language Day in 2021, non-Persian native languages remained under attack in Iran, where non-Persian-speaking ethnic minorities ...
February 23, 2021
84-Year-Old U.S. Detainee Baquer Namazi Suffering “Severe Health Conditions” in Iran
In a statement published on February 22, 2021, a relative of two U.S. citizens detained in Iran on trumped-up charges--Baquer Namazi ...
February 11, 2021
Female Activists Imprisoned for Attending Protests, Refusing “Virginity Test”
Two imprisoned student activists continue to be persecuted for peacefully protesting unjust policies and practices in Iran, including so-called "virginity tests." Charged with “assembly and ...
February 4, 2021
36 Human Rights Groups Appeal for Release of Kurdish Detainees and Other Minorities in Iran
The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has joined 35 fellow civil society and human rights organizations to make the following urgent appeal and end the ongoing intimidation and arrest campaign against Kurdish and other minority activists ...
January 15, 2021
Freemuse and Center for Human Rights in Iran Call on Iran to Free Writer Arash Ganji, Stop Prosecuting Free Speech
Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced writer, translator, and the secretary of the board of directors of the Iranian Writers' ...
December 23, 2020
Three Baluch Prisoners Executed, Three Others in Imminent Danger of Execution
At Least 10 Prisoners on Death Row in Zahedan, Accused of Membership in Militant Groups Application of Death Penalty in Political Cases Continues ...
December 23, 2020
Abducted German-Iranian Denied Choice of Attorney, Whereabouts Still Unknown
Jamshid Sharmahd Assigned Lawyer Who “Defended” Executed Dissident Ruhollah Zam The exact whereabouts of Jamshid Sharmahd, the German-Iranian dissident who was ...
December 14, 2020
Europe Says “No Business as Usual” with Iran After Hanging of Dissident Journalist
EU Countries Withdraw from Iran Business Forum in Protest Over Execution France Tweets Outrage over “Barbaric and Unacceptable” Execution of Rouhollah Zam December 14, ...
December 4, 2020
Iranian Authorities Go After More Members of Writers Association
Poet Amin Moradi Detained, Arash Ganji Released on Bail Manufactured National Security Charges Used to Silence Free Expression In yet another blow to the ...
December 2, 2020
Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Being Returned to Gharchak Prison
Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has already previously served three ...
December 2, 2020
Rights Groups Call on Supreme Leader to Release Sotoudeh, Stop Persecution of Lawyers
A group of human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) have penned an open letter ...
November 7, 2020
Nasrin Sotoudeh Released on Temporary Leave from Prison
Human Rights Lawyer, Weakened from Lack of Proper Medical Care, Now Home in Tehran November 7, 2020—Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was ...
October 27, 2020
Sotoudeh’s Daughter Defends Herself in Court against Bogus Charges
Harassment of Family Members of Imprisoned Human Rights Attorney Intensifies As part of a continuing campaign of harassment and manufactured prosecutions against the ...