Rouhani Promises to Withdraw Anti-Labor Amendments While Police Quash Peaceful Protests
During a ceremony marking International Labor Day on May 1, 2017, President Hassan Rouhani, who will ...
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May 5, 2017
Iran’s Mobile and Internet Service Providers Offer Discount For Limiting Usage to State-Approved Websites
To discourage users in Iran from accessing websites that have not been sanctioned by the government, mobile and internet service companies ...
May 5, 2017
Rouhani Government Touts Amendment Blocking Police From Unilaterally Stopping Music Concerts
Effectiveness of Legal Measure Remains Unclear The government of President Hassan Rouhani has announced the passage of a new amendment intended ...
May 5, 2017
Deadly Coal Mine Explosion in Iran: Who’s Responsible?
The employer, and possibly the government are legally liable for the explosion at a coal mine in northern Iran that killed ...
May 4, 2017
An Interview with Scholar and Historian Ervand Abrahamian on the Islamic Republic’s “Greatest Crime”
Renowned scholar Dr. Ervand Abrahamian discusses the 1988 massacre of thousands of political prisoners in Iran with CHRI. ...
May 4, 2017
Labor Activist Freed From Rajaee Shahr Prison After Serving Seven Years Behind Bars
After serving seven years, labor activist As’ad (Behnam) Ebrahimzadeh was released from Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, ...
May 4, 2017
CHRI’s updates on Iran’s 2017 elections | May 3, 2017
Get caught up on Iran’s 2017 presidential and local council elections with a special weekly update by CHRI. ...
May 4, 2017
Hardliners Pounce on Rouhani Campaigner’s Criticism of Iran’s Military Policy in Syria
Gholamhossein Karbaschi, the reformist former mayor of Tehran and a supporter of President Hassan Rouhani, has ...
May 3, 2017
Shirin Ebadi: Iran’s 2017 Presidential Hopefuls Have Unacceptable Human Rights Records
Not one of the candidates running for Iran’s presidency has an acceptable human rights record, Iranian Nobel Peace laureate ...
May 2, 2017
Judiciary Shuts Down Reformists’ Campaign Headquarters in Iran’s Second Largest City
The campaign headquarters of reformists in Khorasan Razavi Province, northeastern Iran, was shuttered on May 2, 2017—three weeks before the country’s presidential and local council elections on May 19, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. ...
May 1, 2017
Political Prisoner Atena Daemi’s Health Worsens Four Weeks Into Hunger Strike Without Proper Care
Atena Daemi, a human rights activist serving a seven-year prison sentence for her ...
April 30, 2017
Videos Appear Defending Iranian Presidential Hopeful’s Role in 1988 Prisoner Massacre
Since Ebrahim Raisi announced his candidacy for Iran’s presidency, videos have been appearing online defending the ...
April 30, 2017
Former Political Prisoner: Ruling Elite “Preventing Justice” by Supporting Raisi’s Presidential Bid
Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi, who served on a special committee in 1988 that ...
April 28, 2017
Iran’s Judiciary Blocks Instagram’s Live Video Service Weeks Before May 2017 Elections
Instagram’s live video feature has been blocked in Tehran by several internet and mobile phone providers since ...
April 27, 2017
Three Young Men to Serve 12 Years in Prison For “Insulting” Social Media Posts
Three 24-year-olds have been sentenced to 12 years in prison each in Iran for posting critical commentary about politics and religion on the ...
April 27, 2017
Female Former Council Member Advocates For Women Candidates in Iran’s Local Elections
Political parties and factions in Iran should promote more women candidates in the country’s local council elections to improve gender equality, Sedigheh Vasmaghi, ...
April 27, 2017
Political Commentator and Former Political Activist Released From Evin Prison
Issa Saharkhiz Facing New Trial Reformist political commentator Issa Saharkhiz and former political activist Navid Kamran were released ...
April 27, 2017
Iran’s Other Elections: Local Council Applicants Subjected to Arbitrary Vetting
In a surprising development, a few outspoken and prominent political activists have been approved to run in Iran’s elections for city and village councils on May 19, 2017. However, many well-known activists and reformists have been arbitrarily disqualified. ...
April 25, 2017
Dual National’s Husband Urges UK to Secure Her Release From Iran
Supreme Court Upholds Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Five-Year Prison Sentence The husband of Nazanin-Zaghari Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British citizen imprisoned in Iran since April ...
April 25, 2017
Former MP: Guardian Council Has “No Legal Authority” to Exclude Religious Minorities From Elections
The Guardian Council’s attempt to ban religious minorities from running in Iran’s nationwide local council elections on May 19, 2017 is unlawful ...
April 24, 2017
Student Arrested by Intelligence Ministry Held in Solitary Confinement Without Charge
Payam Shakiba, a political science graduate student at Tehran’s Allameh Tabataba’i University, has been held in solitary confinement in Evin Prison’s ...
April 24, 2017
Swedish Resident Held in Evin Prison for One Year Denied Lawyer for Third Time
Ahmadreza Jalali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident detained in Evin Prison since April 2016, has been ...
April 21, 2017
Former MP Urges Iranian Government to “Trust” and Allow Sunnis to Run For President
In the run-up to Iran’s May 19, 2017 presidential election, a Sunni Muslim former member of Parliament has renewed his call ...
April 20, 2017
Iranian Judiciary Blocks Popular Telegram App’s New Voice Call Service
Iran’s judiciary has ordered internet companies to block the Telegram messaging application’s newly released “Voice Calls” ...
April 20, 2017
Low Female Participation Rate in Iranian Elections Symptom of Gender Inequality
Women's rights advocate Nahid Tavasoli is the editor-in-chief of Nafe, an academic women’s periodical. The low number of female participants in Iranian elections is an indicator of inequality ...