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Three Baha’is Barred From University in Iran Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

Three Baha’is Barred From University in Iran Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

November 10, 2017

Three young Iranians who complained to state officials after being denied university education for being followers of the Baha’i faith have been sentenced to five years in prison each, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Lawyers representing Rouhieh ...

UN Special Rapporteur: Despite “Encouraging Signs,” Human Rights Deteriorating in Iran

UN Special Rapporteur: Despite “Encouraging Signs,” Human Rights Deteriorating in Iran

October 26, 2017

Asma Jahangir, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In presenting her semi-annual 2017 report on Iran to the United Nations General Assembly, UN Special Rapporteur Asma Jahangir noted positive developments in the ...

Students, MPs Protest Against Rouhani’s Conservative Nominee for Iran’s Science Ministry

Students, MPs Protest Against Rouhani’s Conservative Nominee for Iran’s Science Ministry

October 24, 2017

Students protest against President Rouhani’s nominee to head the Science Ministry, Mansour Gholami, at Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran. Rouhani’s Previous ...

Imprisoned Teachers’ Rights Advocate Esmail Abdi Denied Sentence Review

Imprisoned Teachers’ Rights Advocate Esmail Abdi Denied Sentence Review

October 9, 2017

Esmail Abdi is serving a six-year prison sentence for peacefully advocating for teachers' rights in Iran. Iran’s judiciary has denied a request for a review of the heavy prison sentence issued against Esmail Abdi, the former secretary general of the country’s largest ...

Rights Activist Barred from University Under Ahmadinejad Faces Same Roadblocks Under Rouhani

Rights Activist Barred from University Under Ahmadinejad Faces Same Roadblocks Under Rouhani

October 5, 2017

Mahdieh Golru: “I have lost hope along with the years of my youth.” Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has blocked formerly imprisoned civil rights activist Mahdieh Golru from attending Alzahra University in Tehran despite being accepted as a graduate student. ...

Rouhani’s Broken Promises

Rouhani’s Broken Promises

September 18, 2017

Iranian President Rouhani is scheduled to speak this week at the 2017 UNGA in New York, but he won't mention his Broken Promises....

Lawyer Accuses Intelligence Ministry in Kermanshah of Harassing Kurdish Civil Rights Activist

Lawyer Accuses Intelligence Ministry in Kermanshah of Harassing Kurdish Civil Rights Activist

August 22, 2017

In the six months since she was released from a three-week detention, Iranian Kurdish children and women's rights activist Farzaneh Jalali has been repeatedly called in for questioning by the Intelligence Ministry. “My client has been under various kinds of pressure, but by law I cannot speak about them,” ...

Rouhani’s Lost Battle: UN 2030 Education Guidelines

Rouhani’s Lost Battle: UN 2030 Education Guidelines

August 3, 2017

In 2015, Iran adopted educational guidelines from the UN 2030 agenda that could substantially improve access to education throughout the country. Two years later, a vicious smear campaign and opposition by the supreme leader has resulted in President Hassan Rouhani scrapping the guidelines. Generations of Iranians stand to lose from ...

Teachers’ Rights Leader Returned to Prison Despite Judicial Official’s Furlough Pledge

Teachers’ Rights Leader Returned to Prison Despite Judicial Official’s Furlough Pledge

August 2, 2017

Esmail Abdi’s Six-Year Sentence Influenced by IRGC The former secretary general of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA) has been returned to Evin Prison to continue serving a six-year prison sentence for his peaceful activism despite being promised extended furlough by a ...

Student Imprisoned for Refusing to Spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Denied Visitation Rights

Student Imprisoned for Refusing to Spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry Denied Visitation Rights

August 1, 2017

Imprisoned for refusing to spy for Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, Hamid Babaei has been denied visitation rights at Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran.  “Today [July 26], like every other Wednesday, I went to [Rajaee Shahr] prison to visit ...

Cartoon 168: Rouhani and His Promises

Cartoon 168: Rouhani and His Promises

May 30, 2017

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Iran Election Update – May 15, 2017

Iran Election Update – May 15, 2017

May 15, 2017

Items of Note Khatami Endorses Rouhani Influential reformist leader Mohammad Khatami has thrown his weight behind incumbent President Hassan Rouhani for Iran's May 19 presidential election. “We started on a path with Mr. Rouhani and we are at the halfway point,” he said in a ...

29 Members of EU Parliament Urge Iran to Release Detained Journalists and Activists Ahead of 2017 Elections

29 Members of EU Parliament Urge Iran to Release Detained Journalists and Activists Ahead of 2017 Elections

May 13, 2017

Ahead of Iran’s elections on May 19 for president and local councils, 29 members of the European Parliament have written a letter to Federica Mogherini, the representative of the European Union for foreign affairs and security policy and vice-president of the European Commission, urging the EU to call ...

Student Imprisoned For Refusing to Collaborate With Intelligence Ministry Denied Medical Care

Student Imprisoned For Refusing to Collaborate With Intelligence Ministry Denied Medical Care

May 8, 2017

Political prisoner Hamid Babaei is being refused hospital treatment by the authorities of Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, an informed source told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).  “Hamid’s chest ...

IRGC Commander Publicly Criticizes Rouhani’s Refusal to Block Telegram Call Service Before Election

IRGC Commander Publicly Criticizes Rouhani’s Refusal to Block Telegram Call Service Before Election

April 24, 2017

One month before Iranians head to the polls, a senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has revealed that President Hassan Rouhani opposed pressure to ban the popular Telegram application’s newly released “Voice Calls...

Eight Baha’is Arrested Without a Warrant by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry and Denied Legal Counsel

Eight Baha’is Arrested Without a Warrant by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry and Denied Legal Counsel

April 24, 2017

Seven Baha’i citizens were arrested by the Intelligence Ministry in Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island, southern Iran, on April 18, 2017, an informed source told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Mahnaz Jannesar, Nasim Ghanavatian, Maral Rasti, Farhad Ameri, Arash ...

University Student Groups Decry Security Climate on Campus, Rising Costs and Gender Segregation

University Student Groups Decry Security Climate on Campus, Rising Costs and Gender Segregation

April 24, 2017

Seventy-two student organizations from universities throughout Iran have issued a joint statement asking President Hassan Rouhani to end the security climate on campuses, halt the rising cost of education, and stop discriminatory practices against female students. “It’s possible ...

Cartoon 163: Rouhani Protecting Citizen’s Rights

Cartoon 163: Rouhani Protecting Citizen’s Rights

March 16, 2017

President Hassan Rouhani stands between Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and a political prisoner, ostensibly to protect the prisoner from Khamenei's bat, a metaphor for the Revolutionary Guards, while himself threatening the prisoner with a bat, representing his Intelligence Ministry....

Trump’s travel ban is a gift to Iran’s rulers

Trump’s travel ban is a gift to Iran’s rulers

January 31, 2017

Marian Vayghan reacts after her uncle is released from a detention center for deportation back to Iran as people protest President Trump’s travel ban from Muslim-majority countries at Los Angeles International Airport on Jan. 28. (Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters) ...

Political Prisoner Banned from Visits After Sending Complaint to Warden

Political Prisoner Banned from Visits After Sending Complaint to Warden

December 29, 2016

Imprisoned doctoral student Hamid Babaei has been banned from receiving visitations after the prison warden accused him of “insulting” Iran’s supreme leader during a discussion about a complaint Babaei had sent to the warden’s office. “Hamid had written to [Mohammad Mardani] the warden ...

Rouhani Unveils Toothless Charter on Citizen’s Rights Without Path to Implementation

Rouhani Unveils Toothless Charter on Citizen’s Rights Without Path to Implementation

December 22, 2016

Five months before his second term re-election bid, President Hassan Rouhani signed his government’s “Charter on Citizen's Rights” on December 19, 2016. The announcement was touted as the fulfillment of a campaign pledge, but the document, which promises the ...

85 UN Member States Say Iran Must Improve Its Human Rights

85 UN Member States Say Iran Must Improve Its Human Rights

November 16, 2016

Resolution Passes UN General Assembly Third Committee November 16, 2016—The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomes the United Nations’ adoption of a resolution expressing serious concern over numerous human rights violations in Iran, including the systematic use of arbitrary ...

More Than 100 Prominent Iranians Ask UN to Declare 1988 Massacre “Crime Against Humanity”

September 7, 2016

This article has been updated on September 12, 2016 to reflect the correct number of original signatories. In a letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council and the International Criminal Court, more than one hundred Iranians living outside Iran, including several prominent civil, academic, and human rights ...

Ninety-two Student Groups in Iran Criticize Rouhani for Unfulfilled Promises

Ninety-two Student Groups in Iran Criticize Rouhani for Unfulfilled Promises

August 2, 2016

Ninety-two university student groups have issued a joint letter to President Hassan Rouhani criticizing the persistent “atmosphere of fear and intimidation” in Iran’s universities following a spate of attacks and sabotage against peaceful student activities.  “Programs organized ...

Commentary: Iran’s Foreign Minister Toes the Supreme Leader’s Line on Human Rights

Commentary: Iran’s Foreign Minister Toes the Supreme Leader’s Line on Human Rights

June 21, 2016

ICHRI- When Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif recently tried to side-step questions about the country’s abysmal human rights record, he yet again exposed his government’s inability—or reluctance—to face the issue even though President Hassan Rouhani came to power in 2013 promising to improve it.  ...

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