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French National Benjamin Briere Tried on National Security Charges in Iran

French National Benjamin Briere Tried on National Security Charges in Iran

March 15, 2021

Ten months after being arrested in Iran, a French national has been charged with “espionage” and “propaganda against the state,” the Center for Human Rights in Iran has learned. Benjamin Briere, 35, appeared at a hearing in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad on ...

Iranian Courts are Unlawfully Banishing Political Prisoners Into “Prison Exile”

Iranian Courts are Unlawfully Banishing Political Prisoners Into “Prison Exile”

March 12, 2021

*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 sentencing detainees held on politically motivated charges to “exile”—prolonged banishment to a remote, underdeveloped town or city far from the detainee’s residence—after the completion of ...

Lawsuit by Civil Rights Activists Reignites Debate on Solitary Confinement in Iran’s Prisons

Lawsuit by Civil Rights Activists Reignites Debate on Solitary Confinement in Iran’s Prisons

March 11, 2021

Judicial Action Sought Against “Those Who Enforce Solitary Confinement and Superiors Who Order It” Use of Solitary Confinement Not Supported Under Iranian law Key Findings:  Civil rights activists have filed a lawsuit in Tehran against those who order or enforce solitary confinement in Iran’s detention centers and prisons ...

Joint Statement: Civil Society Groups Call on Iran to Overturn Disbandment of Prominent Charity

Joint Statement: Civil Society Groups Call on Iran to Overturn Disbandment of Prominent Charity

March 11, 2021

The Imam Ali Popular Students Relief Society (IAPSRS) is Iran’s largest independent NGO and the only one in the ...

For Translating a Book About Syria, Arash Ganji Must Serve 5 Years in an Iranian Prison

For Translating a Book About Syria, Arash Ganji Must Serve 5 Years in an Iranian Prison

March 9, 2021

Arash Ganji, a translator and secretary of the board of directors of the Iranian Writers Association (IWA), must serve five years of an 11-year prison sentence that was upheld by the Appeals Court in Tehran on ...

Relatives Visit Ethnic Arab Prisoners in Khuzestan Jail Only to Be Handed Corpses Minutes Later

Relatives Visit Ethnic Arab Prisoners in Khuzestan Jail Only to Be Handed Corpses Minutes Later

March 4, 2021

"They Learned of the Executions When the Bodies of Their Children Were Delivered to Them" Ethnically Arab political prisoners Jasem Heidary, Hossein Silawi, Ali Khasraji, and Nasser Khafajian (Khafaji) were executed inside Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz, the capital of Iran's Khuzestan Province, on February 28, 2021, without ...

Security Establishment and Judiciary Collude in Disbandment of Iran’s Largest NGO

Security Establishment and Judiciary Collude in Disbandment of Iran’s Largest NGO

March 4, 2021

Imam Ali Popular Students Relief Society Shuttered after Tehran Court Grants Motion by Interior Ministry  March 4, 2021—An Interior Ministry motion to disband the Imam Ali Popular Students Relief Society (IAPSRS) was granted by a court in Tehran on March 3, 2021. ...

84-Year-Old U.S. Detainee Baquer Namazi Suffering “Severe Health Conditions” in Iran

84-Year-Old U.S. Detainee Baquer Namazi Suffering “Severe Health Conditions” in Iran

February 23, 2021

In a statement published on February 22, 2021, a relative of two U.S. citizens detained in Iran on trumped-up charges--Baquer Namazi and his son, Siamak Namazi--called on President Joe Biden to secure their release. The statement, published on the fifth anniversary of former UNICEF official Baquer ...

Iran’s Political Prisoners Are Dying Due to Denial of Medical Care

Iran’s Political Prisoners Are Dying Due to Denial of Medical Care

February 22, 2021

Death of Behnam Mahjoubi Will Be Followed by Others without Urgent Action February 22, 2021—The death of prisoner of conscience Behnam Mahjoubi, who died on February 21, 2021, after untreated medical conditions that included serious neurological issues, reflects the continued crisis in Iran’s prisons, where prisoners, especially prisoners of conscience ...

Critically Ill Political Prisoner Should be Freed, Receive Life-Saving Medical Care

Critically Ill Political Prisoner Should be Freed, Receive Life-Saving Medical Care

February 16, 2021

Iran Must End Systematic Denial of Healthcare in Prisons February 16, 2021 – Prisoner of conscience Behnam Mahjoubi could die if he is not provided the immediate and comprehensive medical treatment that he was initially denied, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a statement ...

Female Activists Imprisoned for Attending Protests, Refusing “Virginity Test”

Female Activists Imprisoned for Attending Protests, Refusing “Virginity Test”

February 11, 2021

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 collusion against national security” for peacefully participating in protests, Saha Mortezaei must now serve six years in prison after her sentence was ...

36 Human Rights Groups Appeal for Release of Kurdish Detainees and Other Minorities in Iran

36 Human Rights Groups Appeal for Release of Kurdish Detainees and Other Minorities in Iran

February 4, 2021

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 and individuals in Iran.   URGENT INTERNATIONAL ACTION NEEDED TO SECURE RELEASE OF ...

UN Experts Condemn Iran’s Executions of Baloch Minority Prisoners

UN Experts Condemn Iran’s Executions of Baloch Minority Prisoners

February 4, 2021

Following is the UN statement issued today condemning the Iranian judiciary's hanging of Javid Dehghan, a member of the country's Baloch minority, amid a recent increase in executions of Baloch minority prisoners in the country. Iran: UN experts alarmed over execution of Baloch minority ...

Freemuse and Center for Human Rights in Iran Call on Iran to Free Writer Arash Ganji, Stop Prosecuting Free Speech

Freemuse and Center for Human Rights in Iran Call on Iran to Free Writer Arash Ganji, Stop Prosecuting Free Speech

January 15, 2021

Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced writer, translator, and the secretary of the board of directors of the Iranian Writers' Association, Arash Ganji, to 11 years in prison. Ganji was convicted of conspiracy, membership of an illegal organization and propaganda after he ...

Athletes Appeal to Save Life of Wrestler on Death Row

Athletes Appeal to Save Life of Wrestler on Death Row

January 13, 2021

On January 9, 2021, a press report was published in Iran about the imminent execution of 29-year-old wrestler Mehdi Ali-Hosseini for a murder he allegedly committed five years ago. He was scheduled to be executed on January 10 but was granted a ...

Three Baluch Prisoners Executed, Three Others in Imminent Danger of Execution

Three Baluch Prisoners Executed, Three Others in Imminent Danger of Execution

December 23, 2020

At Least 10 Prisoners on Death Row in Zahedan, Accused of Membership in Militant Groups Application of Death Penalty in Political Cases Continues to Increase Three prisoners were recently executed in Iran, two in the central prison in Zahedan, capital of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan Province, and one in ...

Abducted German-Iranian Denied Choice of Attorney, Whereabouts Still Unknown

Abducted German-Iranian Denied Choice of Attorney, Whereabouts Still Unknown

December 23, 2020

Jamshid Sharmahd Assigned Lawyer Who “Defended” Executed Dissident Ruhollah Zam  The exact whereabouts of Jamshid Sharmahd, the German-Iranian dissident who was arrested and apparently abducted by Iranian intelligence agents in July 2020, is still unknown, according to his daughter, and he has been issued the same ...

Iranian Authorities Go After More Members of Writers Association

Iranian Authorities Go After More Members of Writers Association

December 4, 2020

Poet Amin Moradi Detained, Arash Ganji Released on Bail Manufactured National Security Charges Used to Silence Free Expression In yet another blow to the Iranian Writers Association, an independent group formed in Iran in 1968 to fight state censorship that is now banned, the authorities in Iran ...

Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Being Returned to Gharchak Prison

Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Being Returned to Gharchak Prison

December 2, 2020

Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has already previously served three years in prison for her defense of dissidents, activists, journalists and minorities in Iran after being convicted of national security charges. Weak and Ill with COVID-19, She Must Continue Serving ...

Rights Groups Call on Supreme Leader to Release Sotoudeh, Stop Persecution of Lawyers

Rights Groups Call on Supreme Leader to Release Sotoudeh, Stop Persecution of Lawyers

December 2, 2020

A group of human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) have penned an open letter to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei calling on him to secure the permanent release from prison of renowned defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh and "help to restore ...

Iran Must Not Execute Ahmadreza Djalali

Iran Must Not Execute Ahmadreza Djalali

November 25, 2020

Execution Reported to Be Imminent, Wife Has Received Farewell Call Swedish-Iranian Doctor Was Convicted on Spurious Charges After Unfair Trial November 25, 2020—The reported imminent execution of Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian doctor and academic who was convicted in Iran on manufactured espionage charges after an unfair trial, ...

Top UN Experts: Iran Must Halt Execution of Ahmadreza Djalali

Top UN Experts: Iran Must Halt Execution of Ahmadreza Djalali

November 25, 2020

Execution of Swedish Doctor “would be a clear and serious violation” of law The UN issued a statement today calling for an immediate halt to the execution of Ahmadreza Djalali, which is reportedly imminent. The Swedish-Iranian medical scholar was convicted on spurious charges in 2017 after an unfair ...

Concern Grows Over German-Iranian Women Held in Solitary at Evin Prison

Concern Grows Over German-Iranian Women Held in Solitary at Evin Prison

November 25, 2020

Authorities Refuse to Give Any Information Nearly Six Weeks After Her Arrest Except for one short phone call, 66-year-old German-Iranian dual national Nahid Taghavi has not been heard from since her arrest by security agents in Tehran on October 19, 2020. The retired architect has been held in ...

Two Students Sentenced to Prison for Peaceful Protest During November 2019

Two Students Sentenced to Prison for Peaceful Protest During November 2019

November 13, 2020

Issued on Anniversary of Protests, Six-Year and One-Year Sentences May Be Warnings to Others  24-Year Prison Sentence Upheld for Peaceful Campaigner against Compulsory Hijab University of Tehran student Marjan Eshaghi has been slapped with a one-year prison sentence, plus a suspended four-year prison term, by Branch 15 of the ...

UN: Iran Must Quash Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Convictions and Ensure Her Permanent Release

UN: Iran Must Quash Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Convictions and Ensure Her Permanent Release

November 13, 2020

Top Experts Say Her COVID-19 Diagnosis “Shows the real risks for those in detention in Iran” Top UN experts* released a statement today, welcoming the temporary release of human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh on November 7, 2020, who had been imprisoned since 2018 on manufactured charges, ...

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