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June 18, 2020

World Refugee Day: Watch Nazanin Boniadi’s New DocuFilm “Stateless”

June 18, 2020 -- Last summer, the actress and human rights activist Nazanin Boniadi visited the Northern french cities of Calais ...

June 10, 2020

Father of Female Political Prisoner Worries She Has COVID-19 Without Access to Treatment

Fears that the ethnic Kurdish Iranian political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian (also spelled Zeynab) could have contracted COVID-19 in Tehran Province’s Gharchak Prison have ...

June 5, 2020

Mother of Jailed Anti-Compulsory Hijab Activist Calls for Legal Reform

*Update: On November 9, 2020, Branch 28 of the Supreme Court rejected a petition by Kord-Afshari’s lawyer, Hosein Taj, to review the 24-year prison sentence against Saba ...

June 3, 2020

Get Up, Stand Up: Protest and the Struggle for Justice

The murder of George Floyd was not just the killing of one man, it was an assault on justice and the rule ...

May 26, 2020

“They Aimed at My Son’s Head”: Report Reveals Carnage in Crushed Iran Protests

May 27, 2020 — A new report released today by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) documents the extraordinary state ...

May 21, 2020

Prison, Flogging for Protesters Who Gathered to Commemorate Victims of Plane Crash

“The trial did not last even a minute,” Legal Counsel Denied Civil rights activist Shora Fekri was taken to prison in Amol, Mazandaran ...

May 18, 2020

French Academic Fariba Adelkhah Sentenced to Six Years Imprisonment in Iran

Nearly one year after she was detained in Tehran, Iranian-born French anthropologist Fariba Adelkhah was sentenced to a total ...

May 12, 2020

Persian Translation: UN Guidance on Protecting People with Disabilities from COVID-19

May 12, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) today published an unofficial Persian translation of the UN’s ...

May 11, 2020

Mourning the Passing of Ali Ajami

We at the Center for Human Rights in Iran mourn the death of our former colleague Ali Ajami, and express our ...

May 11, 2020

Human Rights Lawyer Sentenced to Prison Without Access to Counsel

Four Defense Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran in Less Than Two Years Human rights attorney Payam Derafshan was denied access to counsel while ...

May 7, 2020

Australian Academic Who Attempted Suicide Should be Freed from Unlawful Confinement in Iran

Scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert Kept in Bathroom-Like Temporary Holding Cell Since 2018 May 7, 2020 – A British-Australian academic held in isolation in Iran ...

May 4, 2020

Coronavirus in Iran: Information Saves Lives

Together We Can Help This Giving Tuesday Now, please support our campaign to save the lives of Iranians gravely endangered by the government’s disregard for ...

April 30, 2020

Jailed Activist’s Son Threatened with Imprisonment to Silence Dissent

Three Relatives of Iranian Dissidents Arbitrarily Prosecuted in One Month Amid a renewed crackdown on peaceful criticism of Iranian state policies, the ...

April 28, 2020

Novelist Brother of “Iran’s Bob Dylan” Loses Appeal Against Politically Motivated Prison Sentence

Iranian Judiciary Contiguously Targeting Dissidents’ Family Members Iran’s Appeals Court upheld a one-year prison sentence against novelist Hamid Namjoo for the ...

April 24, 2020

Masih Alinejad: My Brother is Facing Prison Time for Being Related to Me

The brother of activist Masih Alinejad is being prosecuted in Tehran to “pressure” her to end her campaign against the compulsory hijab, she ...

April 23, 2020

COVID-19 Poses Extreme Danger to Arbitrarily Jailed Conservationists, Dual Nationals

Infected Wildlife Conservationist Sam Rajabi Refused Hospitalization, Cellmates Untested American Citizen Siamak Namazi Held in Same “Cell and Bunk Bed Row” as ...

April 17, 2020

UN Urges Iran to “Immediately Release” Political Prisoners and Dual, Foreign Nationals

April 17, 2020 - UN human rights experts today called on Iran to expand its temporary release of thousands of detainees to include prisoners ...

April 16, 2020

Detained Teen Instagram Star With COVID-19 on Ventilator After Judge Refused to Release Her

Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, Who Could Authorize Her Release, Has Been Unreachable Detained teenage Instagram celebrity Fatemeh Khishvand is currently on a ventilator at ...

April 15, 2020

Doctors Punished for Contradicting Iran’s Official Line on COVID-19

Physicians in Iran including university officials have been reprimanded including by way of prosecution for publicizing information about the country’s COVID-19 outbreak ...

April 8, 2020

Political Prisoner with COVID-19 Symptoms Denied Treatment, Transferred to Solitary Confinement

Peaceful prisoner of conscience Mohammad Hossein Sepehri, who was imprisoned in the Iranian city of Mashhad after signing an open letter calling on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to resign, was denied hospital treatment and ...

April 8, 2020

Persian Translation: WHO Guidance on Protecting Prison Populations from COVID-19

April 8, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran today published its unofficial Persian translation of the World Health ...

April 2, 2020

Rights Attorneys Call for Release of All Eligible Prisoners: “Tomorrow Will be Too Late”

As inmates in Iran continue to be killed or injured in "prison disturbances" amid the country's devastating COVID-19 outbreak, two ...

March 26, 2020

Commentary: Trump’s Refusal to Relax Iran Sanctions in the Era of COVID-19 Threatens Everyone

*This commentary was originally published on NBC News THINK. Iranian officials were dismissive of the threat, and now their ...

March 25, 2020

UN Human Rights Chief: Ease Sanctions Against Countries Fighting COVID-19

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called for easing or suspension of "sectoral sanctions" against countries including Iran to allow their medical systems to ...

March 18, 2020