Right to Protest

Iranian Women Face Increased Violence as State Resumes Forced-Veiling Patrols

Fact-Finding Mission on Iran Must Vigilantly Monitor, Document Associated Abuses UN Should Call on Islamic Republic to Repeal Compulsory ...

Fact-Finding Mission Calls on Iran to Stop Executing Protesters, Release Political Prisoners

The independent, international Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) on the Islamic Republic of ...

Iran: State’s “Investigation” of Bar Association Aims to Crush Dissent

Iranian Officials Commit Rights Violations with Impunity While Parliament Votes to Further Persecute Human Rights Defenders June 28, 2023 – ...

Students Across Iran Say “No” to Forced Hijab

At least a dozen student groups from universities across Iran have issued strong statements of support for fellow students who are facing severe persecution at the Art University of Tehran for peacefully protesting forced-hijab rules and punishments on campus ...

Iran: Proposed Bill Pushes Denial of Basic Rights to Unveiled Women

Defiance Against Mandatory Hijab Grows as Iranian Government Seeks Stricter Measures Unveiled Women Assaulted, Blocked from Accessing Essential Services June 15, 2023 – In the wake of the "Woman Life Freedom" movement that ignited nine ...

Young Man Shot Dead as Iranian Authorities Try to Silence Justice-Seeking Families

Police Kill Cousin at Gravesite of Nine-Year-Old Kian Pirfalak Thirty Relatives of Slain Street Protesters, ...

Students Arrested and Banished, Professors Fired in Latest State Crackdown in Iran

University Officials Are Committing Major Rights Violations, Say Students At Least 720 Students Arrested Since Protests Began in ...

Leading Iranian Lawyers Urge UN to Address Illegal Use of Death Penalty

In light of the escalating number of illegal executions in Iran, a group of leading Iranian ...

World Leaders Urged to Radically Increase Pressure on Iran to Cease Executions

Islamic Republic Is Severely Violating International Laws Governing Death Penalty Protesters Hanged After Sham ...

UN Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission on Iran Condemns Surging Executions

UN Photo Press briefing by Mr. Javaid Rehman, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of ...

More Executions of Protesters in Iran Imminent after Sham Trials

Prosecution of Three Young Men Relied on Torture, Forced “Confessions” Defendant: "They kept beating me to make me tell their version of their crime on camera" *Editor's Note: Saeed Yaghoubi, Saleh Mirhashemi, and Majid ...

Activists Detained, Workers Threatened as Oil Industry Workers Strike in Iran

ILO Must Speak Out Forcefully Against Islamic Republic’s Abuses Against Labor May 4, ...

Dozens of Labor Activists Detained, Thousands of Workers Threatened as Strikes Roil Iran

ILO Must Speak Out Forcefully Against Islamic Republic’s Abuses Against Labor Strikers in ...

Iran: School Girls Continue to Face Chemical Attacks, Officials Refuse to Provide Security

Authorities Threaten Students, Families and Teachers While Refusing to Provide Transparent Investigations School Girls and Staff Describe Being Forced to Stay in Affected Buildings While Authorities Dismiss Concerns April 24, 2023 – Five months after ...

Imprisoned Dissident Rapper Toomaj Salehi, Voice of Iran’s Protests, Faces Possible Execution

Sources Close to Toomaj Urge International Community to Demand His Release Before Trial Begins Imprisoned Unjustly Since October 2022, in Urgent Need of Medical Care April 6, 2023 – The international community, including music ...

Journalists Denied Release from Prison Amid Supreme Leader’s “Pardon” PR Ploy

More than a month has passed since the Iranian government issued a “pardon” for an unverified number of prisoners and detainees following the arrests of tens of thousands of people across ...

Teachers Across Iran Protest Government’s Inaction on School Gas Attacks

Arrests, Tear Gas Against Peaceful Protesters Reported by Eyewitnesses Government Dithers While Thousands of Schoolgirls Sickened Amid ongoing poison gas attacks reported at girls’ schools in dozens of cities in Iran, the Coordinating ...

CHRI Board Member Mehrangiz Kar Receives Women’s Award for Justice and Advocacy from NYC Bar Association

March 9, 2023 – Iranian human rights lawyer and activist Mehrangiz Kar, a board ...

20 Prominent Iranian Lawyers Call on UN to Investigate School Girl Poisonings

Over 1,000 Students, Mostly Girls, Poisoned by Gas in Iran Since November 2022 March 6, 2023 – Twenty prominent human rights lawyers from Iran today published a letter urgently calling for an independent, joint ...

Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi: I Will “Testify” About Sexual Assault Against Protesters

Prominent Human Rights Defender Takes Grave Risks by Penning Open Letter in Prison “As ...

One Girl Dead, 400 Children Poisoned Amid Attacks on Schools in Iran

Unfettered Acts of Terror Against School Girls Raise Questions of Government Complicity School Girls Enthusiastically Participated in Major Anti-State Protests February 28, 2023 – Five months into Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, in which ...

Iranian Activists Announce “Justice-Seeking” Pact in New Statement

A coalition of Iranian human and civil rights defenders, including prominent activists Shirin Ebadi, Nasrin ...

Iran: Scores Blinded as Security Forces Aim Guns at Protesters’ Eyes

Protesters: “We Aren’t Afraid of the Darkness” In their violent drive to crush the anti-state protests that have roiled Iran over the last five months, Islamic Republic security forces have shot scores of young ...