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 its nuclear ...
Same Efforts Applied to Nuclear Deal Can and Should Be Given to Human Rights President Biden Has Also Remained Silent ...
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 ...
International Community Must Call on Iranian Officials to Refrain from Deadly Repression May 12, 2022 – Ongoing street protests in Iran could lead to more killings and arbitrary imprisonments by state security forces if ...
Internet Shutdown, Heavy Security Presence Signal Lethal State Repression May 9, 2022 – Government-enforced internet outages and the increased presence of state security forces throughout the Iranian province of Khuzestan, where street protests erupted ...
Iranian security forces arrested at least 28 teachers in the four days leading up to international workers’ ...
The 15 undersigned organizations, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), today issued a joint statement calling on the international community to urge the Iranian authorities to immediately cease their reprisals against the Iran Atrocities (Aban) Tribunal’s witnesses ...
The government of President Ebrahim Raisi should end the state’s campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of victims of state violence, including those who died during street protests ...
Longtime human rights defender and former prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi is peacefully refusing to report to prison in Tehran to serve an eight-year sentence that was issued against her after a five-minute trial ...
Defense attorney Amirsalar Davoudi was imprisoned in Iran for running ...
Complaint Alleges Gross Negligence in Government’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic Lawyers Who Filed the Complaint are Facing ...
Amid an intensifying campaign of political repression in Iran, state authorities have been summoning, detaining, ...
High-Level Intelligence Official: “Social Discontent Has Increased About 300 Percent” A top-secret Iranian state document ...
Sattar Rahmani, a former teacher and political prisoner in ...