Another Abducted Dissident Sentenced to Death in Iran
Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence Against Habib Farajollah Chaab After Show Trial Three Foreign Dissidents Have Been Abducted and Sentenced to Death in Iran ...
Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence Against Habib Farajollah Chaab After Show Trial Three Foreign Dissidents Have Been Abducted and Sentenced to Death in Iran ...
Arrests, Tear Gas Against Peaceful Protesters Reported by Eyewitnesses Government Dithers While Thousands of Schoolgirls Sickened Amid ongoing poison gas attacks reported at girls’ schools in dozens of cities in Iran, the Coordinating Council of the Iranian Teachers Trade ...
March 9, 2023 – Iranian human rights lawyer and activist Mehrangiz Kar, a board member of the Center for Human Rights ...
Over 1,000 Students, Mostly Girls, Poisoned by Gas in Iran Since November 2022 March 6, 2023 – Twenty prominent human rights lawyers from Iran today published a letter urgently calling for an independent, joint committee—comprised of experts from the ...
Prominent Human Rights Defender Takes Grave Risks by Penning Open Letter in Prison “As a witness in both cases of ...
Unfettered Acts of Terror Against School Girls Raise Questions of Government Complicity School Girls Enthusiastically Participated in Major Anti-State Protests February 28, 2023 – Five months into Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” movement, in which girls and women were among ...
A coalition of Iranian human and civil rights defenders, including prominent activists Shirin Ebadi, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Narges Mohammadi, and Atena, published ...
Protesters: “We Aren’t Afraid of the Darkness” In their violent drive to crush the anti-state protests that have roiled Iran over the last five months, Islamic Republic security forces have shot scores of young protesters directly in the eyes, ...
Jamshid Sharmahd Was Abducted by Islamic Republic Agents, Tortured and Denied Due Process February 21, 2023 – The death sentence ...
February 20, 2023 — A joint letter by 39 women's and Iranian human rights organizations calls on EU countries to summon their ambassadors in ...
A new petition launched by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) calls on European Union (EU) countries to support the women and girls of Iran, who are facing severe and violent repression, by summoning Iranian ambassadors in unison on International Women’s Day ...
Blatant Attempt to Silence Sotoudeh for Outspoken Support for Protesters February 14, 2023 – The human rights activist Reza Khandan, who is the husband of the prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, has been summoned ...
Global Medical Community Must Speak Out Against Severe Violation of International Law February 10, 2023 — An increasing number of doctors and medical workers continue to be arrested, detained, tortured and killed by Islamic Republic forces for treating wounded protesters, in ...
Previous Pardons Have Not Been Followed by Actual Prisoner Releases Detained Protesters Assumed Guilty, Must “Apologize” First February 8, 2023 - The announced pardons and ...
Recommendations Lay Out Tangible Actions Governments Can Take to Address Violent Repression February 7, 2023 – More than four months into the Islamic Republic’s ...
Imposing Costs on the Islamic Republic for Its Human Rights Atrocities View a PDF version of this briefing here. View this ...
Meysami Hunger-Striking to Demand End to Political Executions and Compulsory Hijab February 2, 2023 – The UN and international human rights organizations ...
In an open letter, renowned Iranian director Jafar Panahi has announced the beginning of his hunger strike in Tehran's Evin Prison until he is freed from his illegal imprisonment. "I firmly declare that in protest against the unlawful and ...
Women Aiding Vulnerable Children Detained As State Broadens Efforts to Crush Movement for Change February 1, 2023 – Women who ...
Attorneys Jailed to Prevent Them From Defending Protesters and Their Families January 25, 2023 – Four months into the Islamic Republic’s ...
Credible Evidence Challenges Iranian Authorities’ Claims of “Suicides” Families Describe Visibly Tortured Bodies, Fabricated Evidence, Forced Quick Burials January 19, 2023 – The UN ...
Executions of Protesters Continuing; Forceful Action Urgently Needed EU and At Least Eight European Countries Summon Iran’s Ambassadors January 12, 2023 – Governments around the world should recall their ambassadors from the Islamic Republic in protest against the ...
Crackdown Aimed at Destroying Any Chance of Fair Trials for Protesters Detainees Forced to Use Court-Appointed Lawyers January 10, 2023 – While the Islamic Republic ...
World Leaders Should Withdraw Ambassadors, Demand Moratorium on Executions January 7, 2023 – The hanging in Iran today of two men ...
Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, and UK Call for Binding Arbitration No One Held Accountable for IRGC’s Killing of 176 Passengers January 6, 2023—Three ...