Iran’s security officials have warned the family of Erfan Faeghi, a 21-year-old who died from a bullet wound to the heart on November 17 in south Tehran when he unintentionally drove near a ...
Public Outrage Grows As Reports of Bloody Crackdown Emerge: “Every Corner of Iran is Mourning the Atrocities” As reports of the unprecedented state violence against protestors in Iran begin to emerge now that the state-imposed ...
Family Surrounded by Agents at Funeral, Warned to Keep Mourning Crowd Small An unarmed civilian and mother of three young children, Ameneh Shahbazi, was killed by a bullet as she was trying to help a ...
Body Only Released to Family After They Pledge to “Bury Him Calmly” Hamid Rasouli, who died in the Golshahr district of Karaj, west of Tehran, on November 17, 2019, during the recent protests ...
Parisa Rafiei Loses Her Last Legal Challenge to Seven-Year Sentence for Peaceful Protest Parisa Rafiei, the young student activist who recently lost her last chance to have her seven-year prison sentence reviewed by ...
Journalists Will Be Charged with “Crimes” if Coverage Diverges from Official Line Officials Expected Protests, Dictated Instructions to Media Before Price Hike Was Announced November 25, 2019—While Iran is still reeling from the ...
Women and Girls in Iran Are Unprotected from Many Forms of Violence November 25 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women The UN states: “Violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread, persistent and devastating human rights violations in our world today.” In ...
*This article was updated with additional details on November 25. Early Tally Indicates at Least 4,000 Arrests as Concerns Mount for Detainees Smeared by State Media as “Rioters” In the wake of preliminary reports suggesting that thousands of people were arrested in the Iranian government’s crackdown on ...
Violence “Unacceptable,” Free Flow of Information Must Be Ensured The European Union’s External Action Committee, which manages the EU's diplomatic relations with other countries and conducts EU foreign and security policy for the 28-country bloc, released a statement today, November 21, calling on ...
Preliminary Sentences Range Between 6 and 10 Years, Two Still Awaiting Ruling No Evidence of Wrongdoing Ever Found *Update: Two conservationists were sentenced on November 23: Sam Rajabi was sentenced to six years in prison and Abdolreza Koohpayeh to four years. November 20, 2019 – Six of the ...
November 19, 2019—The authorities’ use of excessive force against protestors in Iran, which has included the use of live ammunition and has resulted in dozens of deaths, is a blatant and unjustifiable violation of international law and must cease, the Center for Human Rights in Iran said in a statement today. ...
State security forces have used violent and deadly force to repress protests that erupted in dozens of cities in Iran during the evening of November 15, 2019, after the government announced a sudden gasoline price hike. On November 19, ...
Intelligence Ministry Bans Working for the British Council Without Legal Backing The family of Aras Amiri, a young Iranian woman who is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Iran because she worked for the British ...
Hamid Nouri, in Swedish Custody, Linked to Death Commissions that Ordered the Extrajudicial Killing of Thousands of Prisoners Legal experts weighing in on the arrest in Sweden on ...
Imprisoned attorney Amirsalar Davoudi, the latest human rights attorney to be sentenced to a lengthy prison term in Iran for doing his job, is demanding a judicial review after refusing to appeal ...
IRIB Briefly Airs Pseudo-Documentary About Detained Conservationists Ahead of Verdict A man claiming to be a reporter in a pseudo-documentary about Iran’s detained conservationists that was aired by the state-controlled Islamic Republic of Iran ...
Farhad Meysami at a protest in Tehran beside current political prisoner and human rights attorney, Nasrin Sotoudeh. Imprisoned civil rights activist Farhad Meysami was transferred from Evin ...
Held Almost Six Months, Over Two Months Incommunicado, Even As Family Has Posted Bail Kurdish language teacher Zahra Mohammadi has been in detention in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, since ...
One of the longest-serving political prisoners in Iran, Mohammad Nazari, is eligible for release but is being arbitrarily denied freedom, Mohammad Hossein Aghasi told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Nazari, who is of ...
Complaint: Authorities Should Investigate Last Known Person Who Saw Levinson Before His Disappearance, American Citizen Dawud Salahuddin No Mention of Statement or Findings by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence Organization in Case Files The Iran-based lawyer representing the family of missing U.S. citizen Robert Levinson, ...
Judiciary Chief and Supreme Leader Hollow Out Appeal Process, Defendants’ Last Line of Defense The decision by Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi, with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s blessing, to prevent the ...
Bill Does Not Ban Extraction of Confessions, They Can Still Be Used at Later Stages An Iranian parliamentary bill that aims to stop state-funded media outlets from airing forced “confessions” during the investigative phase ...
Fate of Detainees Unclear Despite Intervention by Supreme Leader Nearly two years after they were first detained in Tehran, eight conservationists have been charged with “cooperation with U.S. and Israeli enemy states against the Islamic Republic of Iran for the purpose of espionage for the CIA and Mossad,” the Center ...
Despite suffering from serious medical problems, the authorities are denying long-time political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian treatment outside the prison’s limited clinic, according to her father, Ali Jalalian. The 38-year-old Kurdish political activist is suffering from ...
Six Prisoners Posted Extraordinarily High Bail, Unclear Why Fellow Prisoners of Conscience Remain Jailed A Christian convert, four journalists and two activists were released from prisons in Iran on October 26, 2019, ...