Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi and five other prominent Iranian human rights lawyers have called for the prosecution of state officials who have encouraged violence against protesters in the anti-government demonstrations in Iran. “We ...
January 2, 2018—The Iranian government and state security forces should immediately end their violent crackdown on the nationwide protests that have so far led to the deaths of at least 21 people, the Center for Human ...
Editor's Note: Mahdavifar’s two-year prison sentence was upheld by an Appeals Court on July 3, 2018. Poet Mohammad Mahdavifar has been sentenced to two years in prison for criticizing Iranian Supreme ...
Political prisoner Majid Assadi is being denied urgent hospitalization despite severe pain in his spine and digestive problems, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. “The ...
Protests flared across several Iranian cities during the last week of December 2017 as citizens faced off with security forces to demand better living circumstances. Hardline officials meanwhile blamed the Rouhani government ...
Protests erupted in several Iranian cities on December 28, 2017, as citizens peacefully spoke out against the rising cost of living. In Mashhad, Iran’s second most populated city, police ...
The wife of an Iranian-born Swedish resident sentenced to death in Iran on espionage charges has denied new allegations that her husband spied for the Israeli secret ...
Detained after criticizing a powerful local lawmaker, Sina Ghalandari, an independent journalist based in the city of Kuhdasht, Lorestan Province, has been released on bail. “Every journalist or political activist who has criticized ...
Prisoner Alireza Golipour, who suffers from epilepsy, has threatened to go on a life-threatening hunger strike again if judicial authorities do not carry out their promise to review his case and release him on medical grounds, the Center ...
Anti-vice police arrested more than 230 young men and women at two private parties in Tehran during the Iranian festival of Yalda on December 21, 2017. Yalda is a winter solstice celebration observed on the ...
Former Iranian Vice President Hamid Baghaei has denounced his 63-year prison sentence, alleging it was issued in retaliation for his criticisms of Iran’s judiciary. ...
Political prisoner Ali Shariati is being denied specialist medical treatment by Evin Prison’s medical chief Abbas Khani despite exhibiting symptoms of severe dental issues. ...
“All they want to do is harass the political prisoners.” The authorities of Rajaee Shahr Prison are keeping political prisoners in unbearably cold conditions without providing protection, a ...
After four months in arbitrary detention, Iranian journalists Sasan Aghaei and Yaghma Fashkhami have been released on bail. The semi-official Iranian ...
Baha’i leader Behrouz Tavakkoli has spoken out about the Iranian government’s “misunderstandings” about his minority faith. Tavakkoli spoke to the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on December 15, 2017, 11 days after his release from Rajaee Shahr Prison where he served a 10-year-prison sentence for his religious beliefs. “Those ...
A family photo of Richard Ratcliffe, Gabriella, and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. December 21, 2017--The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has stated that the Iranian-British dual national, who is currently ...
A screenshot of a clip of Ahmadreza Djalali’s so-called “confession” on Iran’s state-run IRIB state TV. Iranian state TV aired a forced confession by Ahmadreza Djalali because ...
GENEVA (20 December 2017) – United Nations human rights experts* have appealed to Iran to annul the death sentence against an Iranian academic, saying they are deeply “disturbed” by ongoing reports of due ...
The Tehran prosecutor's office has ignored a request by imprisoned Iranian-Austrian dual national Kamran Ghaderi for an urgent back operation, his wife told ...
Update: Reza Shahabi was released on March 19, 2018. December 19, 2017—The Iranian judiciary should immediately free ailing trade unionist Reza Shahabi, who recently suffered a stroke in Rajaee Shahr Prison, and allow him ...
A scene from Ahmadreza Djalali's forced confession that was aired on Iran's state-run IRIB news channel on December 17, 2017. Islamic Republic Has Long ...
Political prisoner Narges Mohammadi has criticized Iran’s judiciary and security organizations for holding detainees in solitary confinement for prolonged periods without charge while trying to build a case against them. In an open ...
An imprisoned trade unionist, Reza Shahabi, has been denied hospitalization despite suffering a stroke, according to a statement by the ...
Judge Salavati Often Assigned to Issue Harsh Sentences in Political Cases The judge who will re-sentence imprisoned spiritual thinker Mohammad Ali Taheri for the charge of “corruption on earth” has demanded that ...
Sohrab Mokhtari is the son of writer Mohammad Mokhtari, who was murdered by agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in 1998. The families of intellectuals and dissidents murdered by agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in ...