Iranian MP Condemns State TV’s Unsubstantiated Accusations Against Iranian-Canadian Who Died in Prison
A member of Iran’s Parliament has sharply condemned the country’s state-funded radio and TV broadcaster for airing a film...
A member of Iran’s Parliament has sharply condemned the country’s state-funded radio and TV broadcaster for airing a film...
Crowd Attempts to Protect Woman From Police A woman who was pushed off a utility platform in Tehran by a policeman for peacefully protesting ...
Iranian Judge Claims Iranian-British Citizen is Being Held Because of UK Debt to Iran An Iranian-British charity worker imprisoned in Iran since ...
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“Her youth is wasting away in prison and her health is in danger.” Kurdish-Iranian political activist Zeinab Jalalian, who has been ...
A Session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Rights Violations Continue Under President Rouhani’s Watch February 22, 2018 — Iran’s deteriorating human rights record requires the UN Human Rights Council to renew ...
Rights Activist, Condemning Iranian Judiciary’s “Subservience” to Security Agencies, is One of Many Languishing Behind Bars February 22, 2018—The recent ...
Clashes among members of a predominantly peaceful minority faith in Iran and security forces have resulted in a discussion ...
Seven civil rights activists detained in Evin Prison since February 1, 2018, have been denied access to legal counsel, the Center ...
Human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi, who recently marked her 1,000th ...
A protest by followers of Iran’s Muslim Sufi Gonabadi Order was attacked with police ...
Two lawyers representing the family of recently deceased Kavous Seyed-Emami have issued a statement countering the claims made in a short ...
Civil rights activist Parastou Forouhar is awaiting the results of her appeal against a six-year ...
The state crackdown that crushed the protests that erupted across Iran in late December 2017 was marked by violence and brutal disregard for the law. This CHRI briefing, based on interviews with released detainees, the families and attorneys of detainees, and journalists and human rights ...
Civil Rights Activists Also Detained February 16, 2018 – Attorney Mohammad Najafi has been held in detention in the Iranian city of Arak since January ...
Some Detainees Allowed Brief Contact With Their Families Environmental activists who were detained at the same time as Kavous Seyed-Emami—who recently died in ...
Atena Daemi (right) with her mother Masoumeh Nemati. Masoumeh Nemati, the mother of imprisoned civil rights activist Atena Daemi, was attacked in front of Evin Prison in ...
In December and January of this year, Iranian women challenged the Islamic Republic’s compulsory hijab by waving their headscarves in public in various cities across Iran. They risked ...
Kavous Seyed Emami and his son, Ramin. Ramin Seyed-Emami Says Family is Seeking Independent Investigation February 14, 2018 -- The son of ...
Film Shows Detainee Visibly Agitated Before Disappearing From Camera’s View A lawyer representing the family of Kavous Seyed-Emami, who died under ...
“The state has become the main obstacle to the progress and liberation of the Iranian nation” Fifteen prominent Iranians including lawyers, directors and academics, ...
Contrary to Iranian official’s claims that all the university students who were detained in connection with Iran’s ...
Tehran Prosecutor Claims Autopsy Conducted But Still No Medical Examiner’s Report Iran’s deputy parliamentary speaker has stated that, based on a video produced by the Islamic ...
Sam Rajabi was detained on January 25, 2018. ...
Lawyers Point to Existing Laws and Lack of Enforcement as the Real Problem Some Iranian female lawmakers have called for immediate deliberations ...