Rouhani’s Attempt to Adopt UNESCO Educational Guidelines Emerges as 2017 Election Issue
In the run-up to Iran’s presidential election on May 19, 2017, the country’s hardline supreme leader has strongly denounced the Rouhani government’s attempt ...
In the run-up to Iran’s presidential election on May 19, 2017, the country’s hardline supreme leader has strongly denounced the Rouhani government’s attempt ...
A member of the Women’s Citizenship Center, a non-governmental organization in Tehran, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) that women’s rights ...
Prominent Kurdish rights activist Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand was freed from Evin Prison in Tehran on May ...
The family of Tahereh Riahi, an editor who has been detained since December 2016 without charge, is calling on President Hassan Rouhani to “keep his word on ...
Letter to Mogherini Condemns Numerous Arrests and Summons May 15, 2017—This week 29 members of the European Parliament ...
A reformist politician and former member of Iran’s Parliament told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...
Esmail Abdi, the imprisoned former leader of Iran’s largest teachers’ union, is suffering from a severe drop in blood ...
A number of prominent reformist politicians have been disqualified from running in Tehran’s City Council election despite being previously approved by the election monitoring committee. The list ...
Any citizen or candidate who attempts to disrupt the upcoming elections will receive a “hard slap in the face,” ...
A teacher in a port city in northern Iran has been exiled for singing to his students. Aziz Ghasemzadeh has been ordered ...
Articles Iran’s Supreme Leader Issues Familiar Anti-Protest Warning Ahead of 2017 Elections Any citizen or candidate who attempts to disrupt the upcoming elections will receive a “hard slap in the face," warned Khamenei in a ...
By preventing speeches in favor of President Hassan Rouhani and blocking his campaigners from reaching voters, hardliners ...
For the second time, Iranian authorities have allowed two-time Iranian Paralympic gold medalist Zahra Nemati to travel abroad ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, currently campaigning for a second term win in the May 19, 2017 ...
A reformist journalist who was detained and tortured in a secret detention center under the supervision of current Iranian presidential candidate ...
Political prisoner Hamid Babaei is being refused hospital treatment by the authorities of ...
Hengameh Shahidi Held Without Charge or Legal Counsel Since March 2017 More than 50 days into her hunger strike in Evin Prison in Tehran, ...
Presidential candidate Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf played a key role in major human rights violations as the commander of ...
For the second week in a row, the staff at the campaign headquarters of incumbent President ...
Speeches by reformist politicians and supporters of incumbent president Hassan Rouhani have been cancelled ahead of the May 19, 2017 presidential election, including two by former member of Parliament Faezeh Hashemi. Hashemi, an outspoken political activist and the ...
During a ceremony marking International Labor Day on May 1, 2017, President Hassan Rouhani, who will ...
To discourage users in Iran from accessing websites that have not been sanctioned by the government, mobile and internet service companies ...
Effectiveness of Legal Measure Remains Unclear The government of President Hassan Rouhani has announced the passage of a new amendment intended ...
The employer, and possibly the government are legally liable for the explosion at a coal mine in northern Iran that killed ...
Renowned scholar Dr. Ervand Abrahamian discusses the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners in Iran with CHRI. ...