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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 Prisoner Condemns “Shameful” Acts Against Lawyers in Iran

Interview: Rights Lawyer Turned Political Prisoner 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 ...

UN Experts Condemn Secret Execution of Kurdish Prisoner in Iran

UN Experts Condemn Secret Execution of Kurdish Prisoner in Iran

December 22, 2021

UN human rights experts today strongly condemned the execution in Iran of political prisoner Heydar (or Heidar) Ghorbani, who was tortured and sentenced to death without a lawyer. Following is the complete UN press release. GENEVA, UN Press Release (22 December 2021) - UN ...

Joint Statement: Free Arbitrarily Detained Right to Health Defenders in Iran

Joint Statement: Free Arbitrarily Detained Right to Health Defenders in Iran

December 9, 2021

The following joint statement, signed by 23 international human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, calls on Iranian judicial authorities to release the activist Mehdi Mahmoudian and defense attorneys Arash Keykhosravi and Mostafa Nili. These peaceful human rights defenders, who were arbitrarily arrested while trying to ...

Khuzestan Kangaroo Court Sentences Two Protesters to Death, Life in Prison

Khuzestan Kangaroo Court Sentences Two Protesters to Death, Life in Prison

December 8, 2021

Abbas and Mohsen Deris, both members of Iran’s ethnic Arab minority in Khuzestan Province, were arrested during the country’s violently repressed November 2019 protests, which broke out across the country that month and which saw an estimated 100 protesters killed in Khuzestan alone ...

Renowned Activist Narges Mohammadi Arrested on Anniversary of Historic Protests

Renowned Activist Narges Mohammadi Arrested on Anniversary of Historic Protests

November 17, 2021

Mother of Two Facing Flogging, Prison—Two Years After Completing 5.5-Year Sentence November 17, 2021 – The prominent rights advocate Narges Mohammadi was detained on the anniversary of the country’s violently repressed November 2019 protests and could be flogged and serve a 30-month prison term if the ...

Relatives of UK Hostages in Iran Spend Cold Night Outside Foreign Office   

Relatives of UK Hostages in Iran Spend Cold Night Outside Foreign Office  

November 3, 2021

Two British citizens spent the night in frigid temperatures outside the Foreign Office in London on November 2, 2021, in a bid to gain freedom for their loved ones who are unjustly jailed in Iran ...

Iranian Political Prisoner Sets Himself on Fire to Be Heard

Iranian Political Prisoner Sets Himself on Fire to Be Heard

November 2, 2021

Mehdi Darini, a political prisoner in Tehran’s Evin Prison, set himself on fire on October 27, 2021, after his lawful requests for parole were repeatedly rejected, independent journalist Keyvan Samimi reported. The event stirred public memory of a young woman, Sahar Khodayari, who set herself on ...

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