Women Aiding Vulnerable Children Detained As State Broadens Efforts to Crush Movement for Change February 1, 2023 – Women who have devoted their lives to aiding underprivileged and at-risk youth ...
Attorneys Jailed to Prevent Them From Defending Protesters and Their Families January 25, 2023 – Four months into the Islamic Republic’s violent suppression of anti-state protests, Iranian authorities are beating, firing and ...
Credible Evidence Challenges Iranian Authorities’ Claims of “Suicides” Families Describe Visibly Tortured Bodies, Fabricated Evidence, Forced Quick Burials January 19, 2023 – The UN Fact-Finding Mission should investigate the suspicious deaths of a number of ...
Executions of Protesters Continuing; Forceful Action Urgently Needed EU and At Least Eight European Countries Summon Iran’s Ambassadors January 12, 2023 – Governments around the world should recall their ambassadors from the Islamic Republic in protest against the Iranian government’s hanging of protesters and killing of hundreds ...
World Leaders Should Withdraw Ambassadors, Demand Moratorium on Executions January 7, 2023 – The hanging in Iran today of two men who were arrested in connection with street protests, Mohammad ...
Editor's Note: This article is regularly updated with new information. January 4, 2023 – The Islamic Republic’s persecution of athletes for peacefully supporting anti-state protests that have been ongoing throughout the country since ...
26-Year-Old Actor Sentenced to Death, More Than 100 Industry Members Imprisoned December 20, 2022 – The sentencing of theater actor Hossein Mohammadi to death in Iran after a show trial, and ...
At Least 11 Sentenced to Death and 24 Others Facing Charges that Could Carry Death Penalty December 15, 2022 – At least 11 men have been sentenced to death in the ...
Young People will Continue to be Killed in Iran without International Action December 12, 2022 – The hanging in public of Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, in Mashhad today—the second execution of a young person in Iran without due process in less than a week—is a prelude to more state-sponsored ...
Café Worker Mohsen Shekari, 23, Denied Due Process in Kangaroo Court December 8, 2022 – The execution today in Iran of Mohsen Shekari, 23, after a trial by a kangaroo court that ...
At Least 574 Known Students Arrested in Less Than Three Months, Actual Number Much Higher December 6, 2022 – Iranian police and state security forces have arrested at least 574 university students, according to research by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), since mid-September when anti-state protests ...
Governments, UN Must Take Urgent Action to Protect Them November 30, 2022 – At least three juveniles are among 15 individuals in the Iranian city of Karaj who are facing charges that could carry ...
At Least a Dozen Labor Leaders Arrested in Effort to Crush Strikes Islamic Republic Should Be Expelled from ILO Governing Board November 29, 2022 – More than three months into anti-state protests ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...