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EU Should Loudly Condemn Iran’s Baseless Jailing of French Tourist Benjamin Brière

EU Should Loudly Condemn Iran’s Baseless Jailing of French Tourist Benjamin Brière

June 28, 2022

Iranian Court Refers to France as an “Enemy Government” June 28, 2022 – Countries negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program, including France, the U.K., and the U.S., as well as European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, should condemn the Iranian judiciary’s blatantly unlawful prison sentence against ...

Borrell, EU Must Speak Out Against Growing Human Rights Crisis in Iran

Borrell, EU Must Speak Out Against Growing Human Rights Crisis in Iran

June 27, 2022

Same Efforts Applied to Nuclear Deal Can and Should Be Given to Human Rights President Biden Has Also Remained Silent on State’s Violent Crackdown in Iran June 27, 2022 - European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who has traveled travel to Tehran and issued multiple public ...

Mother of Detained Translator Calls for Daughter’s Freedom: “I Ask You All to Be Our Voice”

Mother of Detained Translator Calls for Daughter’s Freedom: “I Ask You All to Be Our Voice”

June 27, 2022

On May 9, 2022, Anisha Asadollahi and her husband, Keyvan Mohtadi were arrested by security forces in Tehran for serving as translators for two French nationals who were arrested a few days later. Teachers in Iran had been waging large protests throughout the country ...

As Eight Prisoners Face Finger Amputations, UN Calls on Government in Iran to Cease the Torture Once and For All

As Eight Prisoners Face Finger Amputations, UN Calls on Government in Iran to Cease the Torture Once and For All

June 22, 2022

In a statement released today by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani, the UN called on the Iranian government, headed by President Ebrahim Raisi and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, to rescind a finger amputation sentence against eight prisoners, and called on the Iranian government to ...

In Cahoots with the State, Iranian Court Sentences Lawyers, Activists Trying to Sue Officials to Prison

In Cahoots with the State, Iranian Court Sentences Lawyers, Activists Trying to Sue Officials to Prison

June 22, 2022

Supreme Leader’s COVID Vaccine Ban Resulted in Thousands of Unnecessary Deaths June 22, 2022 – For trying to sue Iranian leaders for their grossly negligent response to the COVID-19 pandemic, three lawyers and two civil rights activists have been sentenced to prison. “These individuals are being ...

UN Secretary General Condemns Increasing Executions, Worsening Repression in Raisi’s Iran

UN Secretary General Condemns Increasing Executions, Worsening Repression in Raisi’s Iran

June 21, 2022

In his latest report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern over the rising number of executions in the Islamic of Iran, as well as "patterns of arbitrary deprivation of life due to excessive force used by the authorities ...

International Community Should Call on Iran to End Punitive Amputations

International Community Should Call on Iran to End Punitive Amputations

June 15, 2022

Eight Prisoners Could Soon See Their Fingers Cut Off June 15, 2022 – In violation of its international obligations against torture, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s judicial system has authorized prison authorities to amputate the fingers of eight prisoners accused of theft. The prisoners ...

Open Letter by Former Cellmates of Imprisoned Conservationists in Iran

Open Letter by Former Cellmates of Imprisoned Conservationists in Iran

June 7, 2022

Former female cellmates of a group of wildlife conservationists who’ve been unjustly imprisoned in Iran since January 2018 penned the following letter as a tribute to their nature-loving friends on the occasion World Environment Day, June 5, 2022. The letter was initially written in Persian and provided ...

Protesters Killed While Iran’s Government Blocks Internet and Media Coverage

Protesters Killed While Iran’s Government Blocks Internet and Media Coverage

May 17, 2022

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 domestic media not to cover the protests, and arrested growing numbers of protesters and activists. Yet the protesters ...

Iran’s Execution Threat Against Swedish Scientist Aimed at Thwarting War Crimes Trial

Iran’s Execution Threat Against Swedish Scientist Aimed at Thwarting War Crimes Trial

May 4, 2022

May 4, 2022 – The Iranian government’s threat to execute Swedish scientist Ahmadreza Djalali later this month is aimed at thwarting the trial in Sweden against Iranian official Hamid Nouri, who is accused of war crimes. “The Iranian government is ...

Dozens of Teachers Arrested in Iran During Workers’ Day Protests

Dozens of Teachers Arrested in Iran During Workers’ Day Protests

May 2, 2022

Iranian security forces arrested at least 28 teachers in the four days leading up to international workers’ day, between April 28 and May 1, 2022, according to the Iranian Teachers Trade Unions Coordination Council (ITTUCC). Multiple activists from other labor sectors were also arrested or summoned in Iran ...

Relatives of Victims of State Violence are Being Persecuted in Iran

Relatives of Victims of State Violence are Being Persecuted in Iran

March 31, 2022

The government of President Ebrahim Raisi should end the state’s campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of victims of state violence, including those who died during street protests ...

Civil Disobedience: Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi Resists Prison Summons

Civil Disobedience: Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi Resists Prison Summons

March 23, 2022

Longtime human rights defender and former prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi is peacefully refusing to report to prison in Tehran to serve an eight-year sentence that was issued against her after a five-minute trial ...

Interview: Rights Lawyer Turned Political Prisoners Condemns “Shameful” Acts Against Lawyers in Iran

Interview: Rights Lawyer Turned Political Prisoners Condemns “Shameful” Acts Against Lawyers in Iran

March 22, 2022

Defense attorney Amirsalar Davoudi was imprisoned in Iran for running a social media channel that provided information to lawyers. *Editor's Note: Amirsalar Davoudi was forced to return to Evin Prison in Tehran on June 26, 2022, to serve a 10-year sentence. Human ...

Plea to UN to Demand Freedom for Gravely Ill Sepideh Qoliyan

Plea to UN to Demand Freedom for Gravely Ill Sepideh Qoliyan

March 10, 2022

Fears Mount for Young Activist Who is Being Denied Crucial Medical Treatment March 10, 2022 – Two months after two political prisoners died in Iranian state custody, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has sent a letter to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ...

Denial of Medical Treatment for Ailing Political Prisoners in Iran Aimed at Crushing Dissent

Denial of Medical Treatment for Ailing Political Prisoners in Iran Aimed at Crushing Dissent

March 3, 2022

Continued Refusal to Provide Proper Medical Care Risks More Prisoner Deaths March 3, 2022 - The continued denial of proper medical treatment to ailing political and civil rights activists in Iran is setting the stage for deliberate crimes against the many political prisoners in the country, ...

Joint Statement: Free Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer Mohammad Najafi in Iran

Joint Statement: Free Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer Mohammad Najafi in Iran

March 3, 2022

Lawyer Unlawfully Imprisoned for His Defense of Basic Civil and Political Liberties March 3, 2022 – The lawyer Mohammad Najafi, who has been unlawfully and unjustly imprisoned in Iran since 2018 on multiple convictions for his defense of basic civil and political liberties and is currently serving ...

Crackdown on Labor Activists in Iran

Crackdown on Labor Activists in Iran

February 15, 2022

Amid an intensifying campaign of political repression in Iran, state authorities have been summoning, detaining, and imprisoning peaceful labor rights activists and a journalist in various cities throughout the country. A lawyer who has represented several labor activists could also soon be sent to prison for ...

Another Foreign Citizen Nabbed by Iran Now Faces Possible Execution

Another Foreign Citizen Nabbed by Iran Now Faces Possible Execution

February 8, 2022

Political Dissident Jamshid Sharmahd Is Unable to Defend Himself in Iranian Judicial System World Must Speak Out against Iran’s Abductions and Attacks on Dissidents Abroad February 8, 2022 – An Iranian-born German citizen, U.S. resident and political dissident, Jamshid Sharmahd, who was abducted by Iranian agents in ...

Hostage Benjamin Briere’s “Price” Raised as Judge Imposes Eight-Year Prison Term

Hostage Benjamin Briere’s “Price” Raised as Judge Imposes Eight-Year Prison Term

January 25, 2022

Iran “Toying” with Foreign and Dual Nationals Amid Nuclear Talks to Extract Concessions Lawyer: Briere's Arbitrarily Increased Sentence is “Unlawful” January 25, 2022 – The manner in which an Iranian judge sentenced French national Benjamin Briere to eight years imprisonment is “against the law,” a member of ...

Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Sentenced to Another Eight Years in Prison

Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Sentenced to Another Eight Years in Prison

January 24, 2022

Situation of Political Prisoners Worsens as Iranian Government’s Assault on Peaceful Dissent Intensifies Activists, Lawyers, Dissidents being Kept Behind Bars with Continuous New Convictions January 24, 2022 – In an ongoing campaign to silence human rights defenders and crush dissent in the Islamic Republic, the prominent rights defender ...

UN Decries Imminent Execution of Juvenile Offender Hossein Shahbazi in Iran

UN Decries Imminent Execution of Juvenile Offender Hossein Shahbazi in Iran

January 14, 2022

Session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Another juvenile offender, Hossein Shahbazi, is in imminent danger of being executed in Iran after being sentenced to death as a child at the age of 17. "The court relied in part on confessions ...

Imprisoned Journalist Keyvan Samimi is Being Led to His Death

Imprisoned Journalist Keyvan Samimi is Being Led to His Death

January 11, 2022

The life of veteran journalist and political activist Keyvan Samimi is in danger as he continues to be unlawfully kept behind bars in Tehran’s Evin Prison despite state officials’ recommendations that he be released to receive treatment for serious health problems ...

Iranian Poet Baktash Abtin Dies After Being Arbitrarily Detained in Iran

Iranian Poet Baktash Abtin Dies After Being Arbitrarily Detained in Iran

January 8, 2022

Abtin, Jailed for Dissent, is Second Political Prisoner to Die in Iran in First Week of 2022 January 8, 2022 – The death of Iranian poet Baktash Abtin today in Tehran after contracting COVID-19 in Evin Prison is the result of the Iranian judiciary chief’s ...

Writer in Coma, Another Political Prisoner Dead after Unjust Imprisonment in Iran

Writer in Coma, Another Political Prisoner Dead after Unjust Imprisonment in Iran

January 3, 2022

Baktash Abtin (left) and Adel Kianpour (right). Concerns Mount for Prisoners Under Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i COVID-19 in Crowded Jails and Routine Denial of Medical Treatment Put All at Risk Jan 3, 2022 – News of an imprisoned political prisoner dying after going ...

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