A session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Urgent Need for Accountabilty After “Brutal Campaign of Mass Repression by the Iranian Authorities” A coalition of international ...
Keyvan Samimi Sees Worsening Fear and Repression in Iran The veteran journalist and political activist Keyvan Samimi must report ...
Letter Reveals New Details: 144 Bodies Secretly Held in Karaj Medical Examiner’s Office Alone June 29, 2020 — In an ...
The murder of George Floyd was not just the killing of one man, it was an assault ...
May 27, 2020 — A new report released today by the Center for Human Rights in Iran ...
“The trial did not last even a minute,” Legal Counsel Denied Civil rights activist Shora Fekri was ...
Three Relatives of Iranian Dissidents Arbitrarily Prosecuted in One Month Amid a renewed crackdown on peaceful criticism ...
UN Press Release GENEVA (9 March 2020) – Individuals detained in Iranian detention facilities are ...
Reza Khandan, a women's rights activist and the husband of prominent imprisoned human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, ...
Iranian authorities have transferred a large number of inmates out of Evin Prison in Tehran—notorious for holding ...
Tehran-Based Reporter: “They Want Us to Stop Writing” February 11, 2020 – The intelligence arm of the ...
February 10, 2020 – Detainees held in Iran since the November 2019 street protests—including juveniles—are being beaten, ...
Iranian authorities are continuing to pressure the family of Borhan Mansournia, who died from a bullet ...
Iranian government agents pressured at least one family member of Nasser Rezaie, a protester who died after being shot at a street demonstration in the city of Karaj on November 17, 2019, to falsely describe Nasser as a passerby who ...
University of Tehran personnel assisted a raid by state forces on a dormitory that resulted in at least eight students being arrested as they gathered for a protest, an eyewitness told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...
After putting blame on Iran’s Supreme Leader for the downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane, new restrictions have been imposed on former presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi, who has been under extra-judicial house arrest in Tehran for nearly nine years, the ...
Victim Was Caregiver of Mother, and Brother With Down Syndrome The family of Mohammad Hashamdar, who ...
Growing Numbers of Bystanders Killed Reflects Security Forces’ Indiscriminate Firing at Civilians “God will not forgive this injustice...they ...
Alireza Ghandchi: "They Have Taken Away My Family and Destroyed My Life" A man whose wife and two ...
Eyewitnesses Report Heavy Paramilitary Presence, Internet and Phone Disruptions Protesters were physically attacked and arrested at universities in ...
Addressing the Nuclear Deal is Not Enough; Rights Issues Are Central to Region’s Stability 28-Country Bloc Should Call ...
Hundreds of protesters and bystanders were killed in Iran last November when armed forces waged a violent crackdown on widespread demonstrations. Yet Iranians ...
Iranian security forces used what appeared to be live ammunition and tear gas to repress protests in ...
January 11, 2020 – The Iranian people should be allowed to exercise their constitutional right to peaceful ...
Iran's judiciary should free all women and men who were arbitrarily detained as state forces violently repressed street protests ...