Iran Protests: Sanandaj Becomes Latest Killing Zone Amid Worsening State Violence
Oil Workers Wage Strikes in Solidarity with Nationwide Anti-State Demonstrations October 10, 2022 – The government in ...
Right to Protest
Joint Letter: Human Rights Groups Urge Biden to Help Protect Iran’s Protesters
The following letter, signed by 21 human rights groups including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, was sent on October 6, 2022, to the offices of U.S. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State ...
Iran Protests: Scores of Civil Society Members Detained “Preventatively”
Grave Concerns for Torture, Killings of Political Prisoners Amid Mass Arrests October 6, 2022 – Less than three weeks after ...
Students Violently Attacked, Arrested by Security Forces as Protests in Iran Spread
Students Trapped, Beaten, Tear Gassed, Taken to Unknown Locations Fears of Worsening Violence as ...
At least 25 Reporters and Journalists Among Hundreds Detained Amid Iran Protests
Minimum Total of At Least 37 Members of the Press Currently Detained Nationwide September 30, 2022 – At ...
World Leaders Must Act Now to Avoid Bloodbath in Iran
Threat of Mass Deaths Grows as Government Seeks to Squash Protests September 26, 2022—With the government of Iran signaling it intends to silence the protests across Iran that are now well into their second ...
Iran Protests: Lawyers Call for Fact-Finding Commission, Referendum
A group of prominent Iranian lawyers has called for international action amid nationwide protests that erupted in ...
Iran Protests: Grave Concerns for Extreme State Violence Amid Rising Death Toll
World Leaders Must Call on Iranian Officials to Immediately Cease Use of Lethal Force, Allow Peaceful Protest September ...
Iran’s Raisi to Freely Address UNGA While Crushing Rights and Freedoms at Home
Mahsa Amini’s Death in State Custody Should be Investigated as Murder World Must Condemn Violent Repression ...
Political Prisoner Behnam Mousivand’s Life is in Danger
Authorities in Iran Intentionally Deny Critical Medical Attention to Political Prisoners September 7, 2022 – A ...
Statements by Iranian Officials Who’ve Criticized the State’s Forced Hijab Policy
As the government of President Ebrahim Raisi, a devoted soldier of unelected “supreme leader” Ali Khamenei, ...
Sepideh Rashnoo: Latest Target of Raisi Government’s Campaign of Repression
*Editor's Note: Sepideh Rashnoo was released on bail on August 30, 2022, while she awaits her trial. August 23, 2022 – Charges filed against a woman in Iran, Sepideh Rashnoo, after she was ...
Salman Rushdie is Yet Another Victim of Iran’s Extraterritorial Censorship
Government of Iran Has Long Targeted its Critics Abroad for Assassination August 15, 2022 – The heinous attack in New York on the author Salman Rushdie, in which a knifeman inflicted life-threatening injuries, stems ...
Human Rights Can and Should be Front and Center in U.S. Foreign Policy on Iran
Prioritizing human rights represents the most effective means for the U.S. to influence Iranian state behavior and address the Islamic Republic’s destabilizing activities, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a new Q&A, “Prioritizing Human Rights in Iran: A ...
Prioritizing Human Rights in Iran: A New U.S. Foreign Policy Approach
The Center for Human Rights in Iran’s (CHRI) new briefing, Human Rights in Iran and U.S. National Security Interests: A Path Forward for U.S. Foreign Policy Toward the Islamic Republic, lays out a U.S. foreign policy approach to Iran that ...
Heightened Reign of Terror in Iran Under New Intelligence Chief
Less than a month after the intelligence chief of the Iranian military’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was replaced, a crackdown on dissent is being ramped up in the country ...
EU Should Loudly Condemn Iran’s Baseless Jailing of French Tourist Benjamin Brière
Iranian Court Refers to France as an “Enemy Government” June 28, 2022 – Countries negotiating with Iran over ...
Borrell, EU Must Speak Out Against Growing Human Rights Crisis in Iran
Same Efforts Applied to Nuclear Deal Can and Should Be Given to Human Rights President Biden Has Also ...
Mother of Detained Labor Rights Activist Calls for Daughter’s Freedom: “I Ask You All to Be Our Voice”
On May 9, 2022, Anisha Asadollahi and her husband, Keyvan Mohtadi, both labor rights activists, were arrested by security forces in Tehran after serving as translators for two ...
In Cahoots with the State, Iranian Court Sentences Lawyers, Activists Trying to Sue Officials to Prison
Supreme Leader’s COVID Vaccine Ban Resulted in Thousands of Unnecessary Deaths June 22, 2022 – ...
UN Secretary General Condemns Increasing Executions, Worsening Repression in Raisi’s Iran
In his latest report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed ...
UN Experts Alarmed by Civil Society Crackdown in Iran
UN human rights experts today expressed serious concerns about a violent crackdown against civil society in Iran, ...
Policy Briefing: Human Rights in Iran and U.S. National Security Interests
Repression of Civil Society Harms U.S. Security Interests June 14, 2022— President Biden’s silence so far ...
Rights Groups Call on Meta to Fix Persian Content Moderation for Instagram
June 9, 2022 — In a joint statement released today, human rights organizations ARTICLE 19, Access Now, ...
85 Lawyers Call on Iranian Government to Respect Right to Protest
In an unprecedented display of unity in defense of the Iranian people, 85 lawyers from Iran have signed an open letter calling on the Iranian government to respect the right to protest. “It ...