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Beleaguered Yet Defiant, Iranian Artists Persecuted for Supporting Anti-State Protests  

Beleaguered Yet Defiant, Iranian Artists Persecuted for Supporting Anti-State Protests  

November 16, 2022

Actresses Appear Without State-Mandated Headscarves as 100+ Film Industry Workers Face Unemployment, Prosecution  Almost anywhere else, it wouldn’t have been a big deal. But because she’s based in the Islamic Republic of Iran, prominent Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti made international headlines when she, for the ...

Witch Hunt in Iran: Grave Concerns for Journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi

Witch Hunt in Iran: Grave Concerns for Journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi

November 1, 2022

Unable to Crush Protests, State Resorts to Smearing Female Reporters with Sham Accusations November 1, 2022 – The Iranian government’s fabricated accusations against two unlawfully detained female journalists, Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, who face severe punishments without access to due process, are part of the ...

Iran Protests: Doctors Treating Wounded Protesters Face Deadly State Violence

Iran Protests: Doctors Treating Wounded Protesters Face Deadly State Violence

October 31, 2022

One Female Doctor Reportedly Killed, At Least Six Arrested October 31, 2022 – Reports of at least one doctor being killed by state security forces and at least six others being arbitrarily arrested at peaceful protests in Tehran and Mashhad indicate Iran’s medical community is facing deadly state violence as the ...

Iran Protests: State Trying to Crush Dissent Through More Killings, Imprisonment

Iran Protests: State Trying to Crush Dissent Through More Killings, Imprisonment

October 24, 2022

Prominent Teachers, Labor Leaders Slapped with Jail Time as 500+ Face Sham Charges October 24, 2022 – The sentencing of prominent teachers and labor rights advocates to prison in Iran amid a violent crackdown on protests that has seen hundreds killed, including children, more than 12,000 ...

Hero Climber Elnaz Rekabi Deserves Support of Climbing Organizations, International Community

Hero Climber Elnaz Rekabi Deserves Support of Climbing Organizations, International Community

October 19, 2022

International Federation of Sport Climbing Should Suspend Islamic Republic’s Membership Serious Concerns for Rekabi, Under Extreme Pressure by State Since Competing without Hijab October 19, 2022 – Climbing organizations and professionals, as well as the international community, should stand with professional climber Elnaz Rekabi, who is under ...

New Briefing: International Action Urgently Needed to Stop Carnage in Iran

New Briefing: International Action Urgently Needed to Stop Carnage in Iran

October 18, 2022

U.S., World Must Collectively Address State Atrocities Against Peaceful Protesters in Iran Policy Paper Lays out Specific Actions Biden and Other World Leaders Should Take October 18, 2022—With security forces in Iran continuing their month-long assault on peaceful protesters, the only way to stop the killing in Iran—which has ...

Breaking: Iran’s Enflamed Evin Prison Provokes Extreme Concerns

Breaking: Iran’s Enflamed Evin Prison Provokes Extreme Concerns

October 15, 2022

Defenseless Prisoners Barricaded Inside Embattled Prison Editor's update on Oct. 15, 7:01pm EST: A source in Tehran told CHRI that people were protesting near Evin Prison as of 2:25 AM, October 16 Tehran time. The source who request ...

Iran Protests: Arrests of School Children Prompt Grave Fears of More Child Killings

Iran Protests: Arrests of School Children Prompt Grave Fears of More Child Killings

October 13, 2022

Officials Paint Children as Enemies of the State, Claim They’re “Reforming” Kids At Least 28 Children Killed Since September 16, Reports Tehran-based Group October 13, 2022 – The arrests and interrogations of school children accused of joining nationwide protests in Iran and their detention in so-called “psychological ...

Iran Protests: Human Rights Lawyers Arrested, Teargassed

Iran Protests: Human Rights Lawyers Arrested, Teargassed

October 12, 2022

Unmarked Vans Rounded Up Dozens of Peaceful Protesters Outside Iranian Bar Association October 12, 2022 – At least three lawyers were among dozens of individuals who were arrested today outside the Iranian Bar Association in Tehran amid anti-state protests that continued in the capital and several ...

Oil Workers Condemn Arbitrary Arrests, Pledge to Continue Protests

Oil Workers Condemn Arbitrary Arrests, Pledge to Continue Protests

October 12, 2022

“We will Not Remain Silent” A union representing oil workers in Iran has published a statement condemning Iranian authorities for arbitrarily arresting their colleagues who have joined the nationwide, anti-state protests that have been ongoing throughout the country since September 16, 2022. Protests by large numbers of oil and petrochemical project workers ...

Iran Protests: Scores of Civil Society Members Detained “Preventatively”

Iran Protests: Scores of Civil Society Members Detained “Preventatively”

October 6, 2022

 Grave Concerns for Torture, Killings of Political Prisoners Amid Mass Arrests  October 6, 2022 – Less than three weeks after protests erupted across Iran, at least 1,200 people have been arrested, including at least 92 members of civil society who were not arrested at street protests, but instead ...

Students Violently Attacked, Arrested by Security Forces as Protests in Iran Spread

Students Violently Attacked, Arrested by Security Forces as Protests in Iran Spread

October 3, 2022

Students Trapped, Beaten, Tear Gassed, Taken to Unknown Locations  Fears of Worsening Violence as Protests Spread to Over 100 Universities October 3, 2022—On Sunday night, October 2, 2022, after 15 days of nationwide protests in Iran following the death in state custody of 22-year-old Mahsa ...

At least 25 Reporters and Journalists Among Hundreds Detained Amid Iran Protests

At least 25 Reporters and Journalists Among Hundreds Detained Amid Iran Protests

September 30, 2022

Minimum Total of At Least 37 Members of the Press Currently Detained Nationwide September 30, 2022 – At least 25 reporters and journalists are among the hundreds of people who’ve been arrested by state security forces since protests erupted throughout Iran on September 16, 2022, the Center ...

Iran Protests: Lawyers Call for Fact-Finding Commission, Referendum

Iran Protests: Lawyers Call for Fact-Finding Commission, Referendum

September 26, 2022

A group of prominent Iranian lawyers has called for international action amid nationwide protests that erupted in Iran on September 16, 2022, following the death in state custody of Mahsa Amini, and which have been centered around advancing social and political change. The lawyers’ statement comes ...

Mahsa Amini’s Father: “Everything They Have Said and Shown is Lies”

Mahsa Amini’s Father: “Everything They Have Said and Shown is Lies”

September 20, 2022

In an interview with Rouydad24 (“Event24”), a semi-independent reformist news site in Iran, the father of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in Iranian state custody, strongly contradicted the authorities’ narrative about his daughter’s death and demanded justice. “What makes me sad is that the authorities are spreading ...

Iran’s Raisi to Freely Address UNGA While Crushing Rights and Freedoms at Home

Iran’s Raisi to Freely Address UNGA While Crushing Rights and Freedoms at Home

September 19, 2022

Mahsa Amini’s Death in State Custody Should be Investigated as Murder World Must Condemn Violent Repression of Protests and Civil Society September 19, 2022 – President Ebrahim Raisi will use his platform at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on September 21 to freely address world leaders at ...

Mahsa Amini is Another Victim of the Islamic Republic’s War on Women

Mahsa Amini is Another Victim of the Islamic Republic’s War on Women

September 16, 2022

Protesters in Tehran Call for “Death to the Oppressor” September 16, 2022 – The death of Mahsa Amini, 22, after being declared medically braindead following her arrest by so-called morality police in Tehran is a preventable tragedy that should be strongly condemned worldwide to prevent further ...

Interview: Mansour Farhang on How a UN Special Rapporteur Was “Deceived on Human Rights” in Iran

Interview: Mansour Farhang on How a UN Special Rapporteur Was “Deceived on Human Rights” in Iran

September 14, 2022

A recent trip by a UN special rapporteur to Iran could have been a historic moment—had she responded to an open letter by human rights activists to meet. Instead, Alena Douhan, the UN’s special rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures, ignored ...

Political Prisoner Behnam Mousivand’s Life is in Danger

Political Prisoner Behnam Mousivand’s Life is in Danger

September 7, 2022

Authorities in Iran Intentionally Deny Critical Medical Attention to Political Prisoners September 7, 2022 – A political prisoner’s precarious health situation is raising fears of another preventable death in Iranian state custody due to the authorities’ denial of proper medical treatment, said the Center for ...

UN, Governments Worldwide Must Speak Out for LGBTQ Activists Sentenced to Death in Iran

UN, Governments Worldwide Must Speak Out for LGBTQ Activists Sentenced to Death in Iran

September 6, 2022

The international community should loudly and publicly condemn the blatantly unlawful death sentences issued without due process against two LGBTQ activists in West Azerbaijan Province, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a statement today ...

Families Appeal to EU’s Borrell to Prioritize Release of Hostages from Iran

Families Appeal to EU’s Borrell to Prioritize Release of Hostages from Iran

September 6, 2022

As negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program continue to drag, the families of individuals unjustly detained in the Islamic Republic have appealed to EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell Fontelles to prioritize the release of the hostages. Citing the European Convention on Human Rights, and the International Convention Against ...

Prejudiced Courts Aiding Land Grabs of Baha’i Properties in Iran

Prejudiced Courts Aiding Land Grabs of Baha’i Properties in Iran

August 29, 2022

Bigoted statements against Baha'is (in this photo calling them "infidels") have been written in graffiti on their properties in Iran. Court Rulings Based ...

More Prisoner Deaths Feared in Iran’s COVID-Infested Jails

More Prisoner Deaths Feared in Iran’s COVID-Infested Jails

August 12, 2022

Authorities Deny Prisoners Medical Treatment and Safety Measures Despite a renewed wave of COVID-19 infections in Iranian prisons, a growing number of infected political prisoners have been denied proper treatment, raising fears of more unnecessary deaths of prisoners in state custody. In a non-exhaustive study, Amnesty International has reported that ...

UN Should Condemn Renewed Crackdown on Persecuted Baha’i Faith in Iran

UN Should Condemn Renewed Crackdown on Persecuted Baha’i Faith in Iran

August 5, 2022

August 5, 2022 – Increasing arbitrary arrests of members of the persecuted Baha’i faith in Iran, and an intensifying government-sponsored campaign of destruction and confiscation of their properties should be internationally condemned, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion ...

Gharchak Prison in Iran: A Cauldron of Abuse and Violations

Gharchak Prison in Iran: A Cauldron of Abuse and Violations

August 5, 2022

Longstanding, Severe Violations of International Standards for Prisoners  International Community Should Demand Closure of Facility For more than a decade, the inmates incarcerated at Iran’s Gharchak Prison for women have been desperately protesting inhumane, unsafe and unlawful conditions at the facility that violate all international norms and standards for prisons. Consistent reports of ...

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