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 ...
Grave Concerns for Torture, Killings of Political Prisoners Amid Mass Arrests October 6, 2022 – Less than three weeks after ...
Students Trapped, Beaten, Tear Gassed, Taken to Unknown Locations Fears of Worsening Violence as Protests Spread ...
Minimum Total of At Least 37 Members of the Press Currently Detained Nationwide September 30, 2022 – At ...
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 ...
A group of prominent Iranian lawyers has called for international action amid nationwide protests that erupted in ...
World Leaders Must Call on Iranian Officials to Immediately Cease Use of Lethal Force, Allow Peaceful Protest September ...
Mahsa Amini’s Death in State Custody Should be Investigated as Murder World Must Condemn Violent Repression ...
Authorities in Iran Intentionally Deny Critical Medical Attention to Political Prisoners September 7, 2022 – A ...
As the government of President Ebrahim Raisi, a devoted soldier of unelected “supreme leader” Ali Khamenei, ...
*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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Iranian Court Refers to France as an “Enemy Government” June 28, 2022 – Countries negotiating with Iran over ...
Same Efforts Applied to Nuclear Deal Can and Should Be Given to Human Rights President Biden Has Also ...
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 ...
Supreme Leader’s COVID Vaccine Ban Resulted in Thousands of Unnecessary Deaths June 22, 2022 – ...
In his latest report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed ...
UN human rights experts today expressed serious concerns about a violent crackdown against civil society in Iran, ...
Repression of Civil Society Harms U.S. Security Interests June 14, 2022— President Biden’s silence so far ...
June 9, 2022 — In a joint statement released today, human rights organizations ARTICLE 19, Access Now, ...
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 ...
May 17, 2022 – At least five protesters are dead amid a violent state crackdown on street demonstrations in Iran, while the authorities have blocked internet access in protest hot zones, pressured ...