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, works to implement stricter enforcement ...
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August 23, 2022
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 accosted by another woman who accused ...
August 22, 2022
UN Experts Alarmed by Escalating Persecution of Baha’i Faith in Iran
The UN has condemned the Iranian government's renewed campaign of persecution against the Baha'i faith minority. Bahai's, including former prisoners of conscience, are ...
August 15, 2022
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 from the Islamic Republic’s longstanding ...
August 12, 2022
More Prisoner Deaths Feared in Iran’s COVID-Infested Jails
Authorities Deny Prisoners Medical Treatment and Safety Measures Despite a renewed wave of COVID-19 infections in Iranian prisons, a growing number of infected political prisoners have been denied proper treatment, raising fears of more unnecessary deaths of prisoners ...
August 9, 2022
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 New U.S. Foreign Policy Approach: ...
August 9, 2022
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 affords human rights a central ...
August 5, 2022
UN Should Condemn Renewed Crackdown on Persecuted Baha’i Faith in Iran
August 5, 2022 – Increasing arbitrary arrests of members of the persecuted Baha’i faith in Iran, and an intensifying government-sponsored campaign of destruction and confiscation of their properties should be internationally condemned, said the Center for Human Rights ...
August 5, 2022
Gharchak Prison in Iran: A Cauldron of Abuse and Violations
Longstanding, Severe Violations of International Standards for Prisoners International Community Should Demand Closure of Facility For more than a decade, the inmates incarcerated at Iran’s Gharchak Prison for women have been desperately protesting inhumane, unsafe and unlawful conditions at the ...
July 15, 2022
UN Expert Welcomes Historic Verdict in Universal Jurisdiction Case on Iran
Lauding a landmark universal jurisdiction conviction in Sweden against Hamid Nouri, an ...
July 14, 2022
Nouri Conviction by Swedish Court a Triumph for Iran’s “Seeking-Justice” Movement
Conviction Opens Door for More Trials Against Officials Accused of Atrocities July 14, 2022 -- After 92 sessions of a trial ...
July 11, 2022
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 ...
July 5, 2022
400+ Iranian Human Rights Leaders Urge Belgium to Drop Prisoner Swap Treaty with Iran
Treaty Encourages Hostage-Taking, Would Return Convicted Terrorist to Iran July 5, 2022 – More than 400 leading Iranian human rights activists, ...
June 28, 2022
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 its nuclear program, including France, ...
June 27, 2022
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 Remained Silent on State’s Violent ...
June 27, 2022
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 French nationals who were arrested ...
June 22, 2022
As Eight Prisoners Face Finger Amputations, UN Calls on Government in Iran to Cease the Torture Once and For All
In a statement released today by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani, the UN called on the Iranian government, headed by President Ebrahim Raisi and ...
June 22, 2022
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 – For trying to sue Iranian ...
June 21, 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 deep concern over the rising ...
June 15, 2022
International Community Should Call on Iran to End Punitive Amputations
Eight Prisoners Could Soon See Their Fingers Cut Off June 15, 2022 – In violation of its international obligations ...
June 15, 2022
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, including members of workers’ unions ...
June 14, 2022
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 on the killings and mass ...
June 9, 2022
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, and the Center for Human ...
June 7, 2022
Open Letter by Former Cellmates of Imprisoned Conservationists in Iran
Former female cellmates of a group of wildlife conservationists who’ve been unjustly imprisoned in Iran since January 2018 penned the following ...
June 3, 2022
Iran Should Be Ejected from ILO’s Governing Board Says Iran’s National Teacher Organization
Open Letter Condemns Iran’s “Brutal Repression” of Trade Unions and Labor Activists June 2, 2022—In an open letter to the delegates at the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 110th Session of the International Labour Conference, currently being ...