UN Fact-Finding Mission Urgently Calls on Iran to Immediately Halt Executions
On July 23, 2026, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran ...
Right to Protest
As Executions Surge in Iran, Prisoners Risk Their Lives to Protest the State’s Killings
For more than two years, prisoners have staged weekly hunger strikes against one of the world's deadliest execution sprees—despite facing execution, torture, and retaliation June 8, 2026 — As Iranian authorities carry out...
Over 200 Schoolchildren Killed by Security Forces in Iran: ‘They’ve Effectively Massacred an Entire School’
Families Forced to Carry Out Secret Burials, Banned from Publicly Mentioning Their ...
Unreported Atrocities: Eyewitnesses Detail Massive and Deadly State Crackdown Against Protesters in Iran’s Provincial Cities
Arrests Skyrocketing After Mass Killings, Detainees Held in Hidden Warehouses, Violent ...
30+ Rights Groups Sound Alarm Over Grave Risks to Detainees in Iran Amid Blackout
January 14, 2025 — The Center for ...
Iranian Authorities Intensify Crackdown on Protests with Live Fire, Arbitrary Arrests, and Attacks on Hospitals
More Than 27 Civilians Killed, including Six Children, Over 2000 Arrested Authorities' ...
Grave Concerns Over Detainees’ Safety Following Arrests at Slain Lawyer’s Memorial
39 Detained, Access to Lawyers and Families Denied, Brutal Interrogations Underway December ...
Political Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Highlights Plight of Religious and Political Prisoners in Iran
Nasim Simiyari Protests Iran’s Brutal Persecution of Baha’is, Demands ...
Iran’s New Tactics to Crush Mandatory Hijab Resistance: Business Raids and Surveillance
Closures, Undercover Agents, and Prosecutions Replace Street Patrols in New Phase ...
Iran: Political Death Sentences Surge in Brutal Crackdown on Minorities
Torture, Forced Confessions and Sham Trials Drive Deadly State Campaign Against Kurds and Arabs July 16, 2025 — The Iranian government is ...
Iran Launches Sweeping Crackdown: Hundreds Detained, Executions Underway
U.S. Must Confront Iran Over Human Rights Abuses in Upcoming Talks June ...
Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested
Families Pressured to Remain Silent to Obtain Release of Loved Ones Largest ...
Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners
Systematic Denial of Medical Care in Iran: A Slow ...
Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
At Least 19 Writers and Poets Targeted in 2025, One Sentenced ...
‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist
May 5, 2025 — In a letter obtained by the ...
Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People
This article was originally published on The Hill. April 24, ...
UN Says Iran’s Crimes Against Humanity Demand Expanded Investigation
Fact-Finding Mission Cites Widescale Murder, Imprisonment, Torture and Rape UN: Systematic Abuses Continue, Accountability Outside Iran Should be Pursued March 14, 2025 – In a new report based on a two-year investigation, the UN ...
Gender Apartheid in Iran is Crushing Women’s Lives and Futures
This International Women’s Day, the World Must Declare Gender Apartheid a ...
Joint Statement: Stop the Imminent Deportation of Activist Nahid Modaressi to Iran
Refugees in Turkey at High Risk of Imprisonment, Torture if Returned to Iran February 25, 2025 — We, ...
Death Sentence for Woman Labor Activist In Iran Re-Issued
Sharifeh Mohammadi’s Second Death Sentence Imposed on Her Son’s 13th Birthday Three Women Political Prisoners Face Execution on ...
Two More Political Prisoners Join Dozens at Risk of Political Executions in Iran
Iran Using the Gallows to Terrorize Population into Silence Severe Violations of Due Process and Fair Trial ...
Iran’s Campaign of Terror Against Minorities Surges Across Country
State Commits Mass Violent Crimes as It Moves to Suppress Dissent Huge Surge in Mass Arrests, Violence, and ...
Iran’s Judiciary Shields Perpetrators of ‘Bloody Friday’ State Massacre
Senior Officials Protected, Low-Ranking Officers Receive Reduced Sentences Lawyers for Victims Arrested, Evidence Suppressed, Families Pressured to ...
A Year of Resistance Inside Iran’s Prisons Against Executions
Prisoners in Over 30 Prisons Stage Weekly Hunger Strikes Demanding End to Executions January 21, 2025 — One ...