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Right to Protest

Father of Executed Protester in Iran Faces Imprisonment for Seeking Justice

Father of Executed Protester in Iran Faces Imprisonment for Seeking Justice

Son Was Executed After Torture, Forced “Confessions” and Sham Trial April 1, 2024 – The ongoing state persecution of Mashallah Karami, whose son was unlawfully executed following protests that erupted across Iran in September ...

Executions, Murder, Rape, Torture Used to Repress “Woman, Life, Freedom” Protests Detailed in 500+ Page UN Report

Executions, Murder, Rape, Torture Used to Repress “Woman, Life, Freedom” Protests Detailed in 500+ Page UN Report

Mission Calls on States to Prosecute Responsible Officials Under Universal Jurisdiction Crimes Against Humanity: State Atrocities in Iran Revealed in ...

43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Extend Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies

43 International Rights Organizations Urge UN Human Rights Council to Extend Mandates of Iran Monitoring Bodies

Crimes Against Humanity Unveiled in Fact-Finding Mission on Iran's Inaugural Report March 18, 2024 – A ...

Crimes Against Humanity Unveiled: UN Fact-Finding Mission Exposes Iran’s State Atrocities

Crimes Against Humanity Unveiled: UN Fact-Finding Mission Exposes Iran’s State Atrocities

Peaceful Protesters Subjected to Excessive Force, Torture, Rape, and Arbitrary Executions  Call to Action: UN Human Rights Council Members Urged to Extend Fact-Finding Mission and Special Rapporteur Mandates March 8, 2024 – Grave human rights ...

Street Protester Facing Imminent Execution in Iran Should be Released

Street Protester Facing Imminent Execution in Iran Should be Released

Abbas Deris Sentenced to Death after Torture, Lack of Evidence, and Gross Due Process Violations ...

Tortured Street Protester in Iran Faces Years of Imprisonment Without Due Process

Tortured Street Protester in Iran Faces Years of Imprisonment Without Due Process

Case Reflects Severe Rights Violations Faced by Ethnic Minorities in Iran  “For a long time after his release, ...

Unlawfully Imprisoned Activist and Organizer of Mahsa Jina Amini’s Funeral Must Be Released on Medical Grounds

Unlawfully Imprisoned Activist and Organizer of Mahsa Jina Amini’s Funeral Must Be Released on Medical Grounds

Medical Examiner: Osman Esmaili “Could Not Withstand Further Imprisonment” Sentenced to Prison After “Two-Hour Trial,” Denied Counsel of ...

Iran: Amid Surging Executions, Civil Society Registers Unprecedented Plea to Abolish Death Penalty

Iran: Amid Surging Executions, Civil Society Registers Unprecedented Plea to Abolish Death Penalty

Mass Hunger Strike Launched by Women Prisoners of Conscience Spreading Quickly January 25, 2024 – The surge in ...

Street Protester Mohammad Ghobadlou Hanged in Iran Amid State-Sanctioned Killing Spree

Street Protester Mohammad Ghobadlou Hanged in Iran Amid State-Sanctioned Killing Spree

January 23, 2024 — The execution today of 23-year-old street protester Mohammad Ghobadlou is a ...

Rampage Against Women: Prisoners of Conscience in Iran Face More Jail Time

Rampage Against Women: Prisoners of Conscience in Iran Face More Jail Time

Relentless Campaign of Repression Seeks to Quash “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement Jan 16, 2024 – Three women ...

Imprisoned Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi Needs Global Demands for Release

Imprisoned Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi Needs Global Demands for Release

“I will make my voice louder for the world to hear,” says Mohammadi Suffering from Serious Health Issues, Authorities Ban Phone Calls, Visitations December 8, 2023 – Governments worldwide, UN ...

Urgent Call to Free Rapper Detained in Iran After Revealing Torture in State Custody

Urgent Call to Free Rapper Detained in Iran After Revealing Torture in State Custody

Toomaj Salehi Re-Arrested After Publicly Disclosing Plans to Sue State Requires Medical Treatment for Injuries Sustained in ...

Joint Letter: Free Unjustly Imprisoned Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi

Joint Letter: Free Unjustly Imprisoned Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi

Nobel Laureate Should Be Allowed to Travel to Oslo to See Family and ...

Peaceful Protesters’ Plight in Iran: Abductions and Forced Confessions

Peaceful Protesters’ Plight in Iran: Abductions and Forced Confessions

November 17, 2023 – An arbitrarily detained woman, facing unjust imprisonment in Iran, has provided a detailed ...

Prominent Lawyer and Activists Beaten, Detained at Funeral of Teenager Armita Geravand

Prominent Lawyer and Activists Beaten, Detained at Funeral of Teenager Armita Geravand

Nasrin Sotoudeh Among Those Violently Arrested, Faces Grave Danger and Re-Imprisonment Manzar Zarabi, Who Lost Family Members on ...

UN Expert: Iran is “Dangerously Lacking in Basic Human Rights Safeguards”

UN Expert: Iran is “Dangerously Lacking in Basic Human Rights Safeguards”

A UN human rights expert has reported on the entrenched shortcomings within the Islamic Republic of Iran's ...

Journalists Who Reported on Mahsa Jina Amini’s Killing Sentenced to Long Prison Terms

Journalists Who Reported on Mahsa Jina Amini’s Killing Sentenced to Long Prison Terms

Niloufar Hamedi Gets 13 Years Behind Bars and Elahe Mohammadi 12 Years Iranian Government Moves to Crush “Woman, ...

Business Owners in Iran Face Economic Reprisals for Supporting Protests

Business Owners in Iran Face Economic Reprisals for Supporting Protests

October 11, 2023 – Business owners in Iran are facing severe consequences, including loss of livelihoods and ...

Joint Letter: 120 Iranian Doctors, Lawyers, and Activists Call for Release of Doctor Jailed for Treating Protesters

Joint Letter: 120 Iranian Doctors, Lawyers, and Activists Call for Release of Doctor Jailed for Treating Protesters

Signatories, Including Wounded Protesters, Urge Investigation by UN’s Fact-Finding Mission and Support by International Medical Organizations October 9, ...

Children Among Injured as Iranian Authorities Open Fire on Protests in Zahedan

Children Among Injured as Iranian Authorities Open Fire on Protests in Zahedan

Grave Concerns Over Further State Violence Ahead of “Blood Friday” Anniversary, When 100+ Protesters Were Killed *Update on ...

Academic Year in Iran Begins with Imprisonment of Teachers, Arbitrary Arrests

Academic Year in Iran Begins with Imprisonment of Teachers, Arbitrary Arrests

New Law Requires Teachers To Be “Evaluated” with Ideological Questions Every Year September 28, 2023 – A year-long ...

Iran’s Parliament Approves Harsh New Hijab Law, Escalating Repression of Women

Iran’s Parliament Approves Harsh New Hijab Law, Escalating Repression of Women

International Community Should Call for an End to Gender Apartheid in Iran September 20, 2023 – On the ...

At Least One Shot as Iran Deploys Armed Forces to Suppress “Woman, Life, Freedom” Protests

At Least One Shot as Iran Deploys Armed Forces to Suppress “Woman, Life, Freedom” Protests

Child Soldiers Used to Assist State Security Forces Relatives of Victims of State Violence, Activists Threatened ...

Massacre in Kurdish City by Islamic Republic Forces Exposed in New Report

Massacre in Kurdish City by Islamic Republic Forces Exposed in New Report

More State Violence Feared as Anniversary of “Woman Life Freedom” Uprising Nears Intentional Killing of Unarmed Civilians Amounts to Crimes Against Humanity September 5, 2023 – A new report just released by the Center ...

Tortured Protester Dies in Iranian Prison After Death Sentences Thrown Out

Tortured Protester Dies in Iranian Prison After Death Sentences Thrown Out

Another Political Prisoner’s Death Sparks Outrage Weeks Before Anniversary of Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” Uprising Citing Relative, Activist ...

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Latest News

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    Lives of Prisoners in Iran in Immediate Danger
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  • Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran at Grave Risk Amid War
    Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran at Grave Risk Amid War
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  • Iranian Political Prisoner in Evin Prison Urges Action to Protect Prisoners As War Escalates
    Iranian Political Prisoner in Evin Prison Urges Action to Protect Prisoners As War Escalates
    June 18, 2025
  • Immediate Ceasefire Needed as Attacks on Civilians Intensify
    Immediate Ceasefire Needed as Attacks on Civilians Intensify
    June 16, 2025
  • CHRI: Civilians Must Not Be Targets in Iran
    CHRI: Civilians Must Not Be Targets in Iran
    June 12, 2025
  • UNICEF’s Silence on Iran: Nobel Laureate Demands Action on Children’s Rights Abuses
    UNICEF’s Silence on Iran: Nobel Laureate Demands Action on Children’s Rights Abuses
    June 11, 2025
  • Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested
    Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested
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  • Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners
    Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners
    May 27, 2025
  • Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
    Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
    May 20, 2025
  • Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers
    Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers
    May 14, 2025
  • ‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist
    ‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist
    May 5, 2025
  • Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions
    Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions
    April 30, 2025
  • Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People
    Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People
    April 24, 2025
  • Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency
    Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency
    April 16, 2025
  • EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals
    EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals
    April 14, 2025
  • Five More Political Prisoners Hanged in Iran as Use of Death Penalty to Crush Dissent Surges
    Five More Political Prisoners Hanged in Iran as Use of Death Penalty to Crush Dissent Surges
    April 9, 2025
  • Landmark Resolution: UN Human Rights Council Expands Fact-Finding Mission on Iran
    Landmark Resolution: UN Human Rights Council Expands Fact-Finding Mission on Iran
    April 3, 2025
  • Imprisonment of Christians Jumps Six-Fold in Iran as Persecution Intensifies
    Imprisonment of Christians Jumps Six-Fold in Iran as Persecution Intensifies
    April 1, 2025
  • Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers
    Joint Letter: Global Coalition Calls on Iran to Cease Persecution of Human Rights Lawyers
    March 18, 2025
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