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Torture

More Prisoner Deaths Feared in Iran’s COVID-Infested Jails

More Prisoner Deaths Feared in Iran’s COVID-Infested Jails

August 12, 2022

Authorities Deny Prisoners Medical Treatment and Safety Measures Despite a renewed wave of COVID-19 infections in Iranian prisons, a growing number of infected political prisoners have been denied proper treatment, raising fears of more unnecessary deaths of prisoners in state custody. In a non-exhaustive study, Amnesty International has reported that ...

As Eight Prisoners Face Finger Amputations, UN Calls on Government in Iran to Cease the Torture Once and For All

As Eight Prisoners Face Finger Amputations, UN Calls on Government in Iran to Cease the Torture Once and For All

June 22, 2022

In a statement released today by UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani, the UN called on the Iranian government, headed by President Ebrahim Raisi and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, to rescind a finger amputation sentence against eight prisoners, and called on the Iranian government to ...

International Community Should Call on Iran to End Punitive Amputations

International Community Should Call on Iran to End Punitive Amputations

June 15, 2022

Eight Prisoners Could Soon See Their Fingers Cut Off June 15, 2022 – In violation of its international obligations against torture, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s judicial system has authorized prison authorities to amputate the fingers of eight prisoners accused of theft. The prisoners ...

Denial of Medical Treatment for Ailing Political Prisoners in Iran Aimed at Crushing Dissent

Denial of Medical Treatment for Ailing Political Prisoners in Iran Aimed at Crushing Dissent

March 3, 2022

Continued Refusal to Provide Proper Medical Care Risks More Prisoner Deaths March 3, 2022 - The continued denial of proper medical treatment to ailing political and civil rights activists in Iran is setting the stage for deliberate crimes against the many political prisoners in the country, ...

Decapitated Child Bride Highlights Iran’s Lack of Protections for Girls and Women

Decapitated Child Bride Highlights Iran’s Lack of Protections for Girls and Women

February 10, 2022

Honor Killings Will Continue as Long as Iran’s Laws Protects Killers  Widespread Practice of Child Marriage Means More Young Girls Will Be Murdered February 10, 2022 - Mona “Ghazal” Heydari was 17 years old when her husband, Sajjad Heydari, decapitated her and paraded her head on a street ...

Another Foreign Citizen Nabbed by Iran Now Faces Possible Execution

Another Foreign Citizen Nabbed by Iran Now Faces Possible Execution

February 8, 2022

Political Dissident Jamshid Sharmahd Is Unable to Defend Himself in Iranian Judicial System World Must Speak Out against Iran’s Abductions and Attacks on Dissidents Abroad February 8, 2022 – An Iranian-born German citizen, U.S. resident and political dissident, Jamshid Sharmahd, who was abducted by Iranian agents in ...

Renowned Activist Narges Mohammadi Arrested on Anniversary of Historic Protests

Renowned Activist Narges Mohammadi Arrested on Anniversary of Historic Protests

November 17, 2021

Mother of Two Facing Flogging, Prison—Two Years After Completing 5.5-Year Sentence November 17, 2021 – The prominent rights advocate Narges Mohammadi was detained on the anniversary of the country’s violently repressed November 2019 protests and could be flogged and serve a 30-month prison term if the ...

Iran Atrocities Tribunal on November 2019 Massacre: A Major Step towards Seeking Justice

Iran Atrocities Tribunal on November 2019 Massacre: A Major Step towards Seeking Justice

November 15, 2021

International Community Must Finally Act with One Voice to Address these Crimes Evidence of the Islamic Republic’s Top Officials Directly Involved in the Atrocities November 15, 2021 -- The Iran Atrocities Tribunal (or “Aban Tribunal”), an independent People’s Tribunal held in London to investigate the killing and wounding of thousands ...

“They’re Torturing Me Without Touching Me” Says Unarmed Protester Shot by Iranian Security Forces

“They’re Torturing Me Without Touching Me” Says Unarmed Protester Shot by Iranian Security Forces

November 14, 2021

Two years after Iran’s massive November 2019 protests, the government has yet to respond to questions about its deadly use of force to suppress the demonstrations, which occurred in more than 200 cities, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured ...

Lack of Accountability Perpetuates Deaths of Prisoners in Iran

Lack of Accountability Perpetuates Deaths of Prisoners in Iran

September 21, 2021

The torture and inhuman mistreatment of detainees and prisoners in Iran are among the most serious violations of human rights in the country’s prisons. In many cases, prisoners or detainees have died from injuries inflicted upon them in custody and yet the government has never acknowledged responsibility on ...

Hacked Iranian Prison Footage Provides Limited Glimpse of Right of Abuses

Hacked Iranian Prison Footage Provides Limited Glimpse of Right of Abuses

August 27, 2021

Hacked footage from security cameras in Iran’s Evin Prison and the publication of some of the prison’s documents published online by a group calling itself “Edalat-e Ali” (Ali's Justice) has provided a glimpse into the systematic violence committed against prisoners there. However, former inmates have noted that ...

Supreme Court Refusal to Review 25-year Sentence for Afkari Brother is Travesty of Justice

Supreme Court Refusal to Review 25-year Sentence for Afkari Brother is Travesty of Justice

August 26, 2021

Investigation Marked by Torture, Witness Tampering and Contradictions August 26, 2021—The refusal by Iran’s Supreme Court to allow a judicial review of the 25-year prison sentence for Vahid Afkari, the brother of wrestling champion Navid Afkari who was unlawfully executed last year, despite evidence of torture, ...

Analysis: Falsehoods and Contradictions in the Rulings against the Afkari Brothers

Analysis: Falsehoods and Contradictions in the Rulings against the Afkari Brothers

August 26, 2021

Lawyer: The Ruling against Vahid Afkari had “24 Contradictions and 3 Lies” Despite Inconsistencies and Torture, Supreme Court Refuses to Review 25-year Prison Sentence Nearly a year after the unlawful execution of wrestling champion Navid Afkari, a request by his brother Vahid, who along with a third Afkari ...

Key Witness in Nouri’s Crimes Against Humanity Trial: Conviction Could Lead to Prosecution of President Raisi

Key Witness in Nouri’s Crimes Against Humanity Trial: Conviction Could Lead to Prosecution of President Raisi

August 11, 2021

The historic trial against Nouri, which will hear testimonies from dozens of witnesses in 72 sessions, will be the first time that one of the worst crimes committed in the Islamic Republic of Iran will be thoroughly examined and exposed in a court of law ...

Two Brothers of Executed Iranian Wrestler Fear Same Fate

Two Brothers of Executed Iranian Wrestler Fear Same Fate

May 5, 2021

May 5, 2021 – Eight months after an Iranian wrestler was unjustly executed in Shiraz, his brothers Vahid and Habib Afkari remain in prolonged solitary confinement in the same prison where they’ve also been tortured and threatened with execution, the Center for Human Rights in ...

Sharif University Honor Students Tortured, Detained in High-Security Ward

Sharif University Honor Students Tortured, Detained in High-Security Ward

April 19, 2021

A year after agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry arrested and tortured them, university students Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi remain in Ward 209 of Evin Prison in Tehran, controlled by the ministry, while being denied access to lawyers and their relatives, the Center for Human ...

Relatives Visit Ethnic Arab Prisoners in Khuzestan Jail Only to Be Handed Corpses Minutes Later

Relatives Visit Ethnic Arab Prisoners in Khuzestan Jail Only to Be Handed Corpses Minutes Later

March 4, 2021

"They Learned of the Executions When the Bodies of Their Children Were Delivered to Them" Ethnically Arab political prisoners Jasem Heidary, Hossein Silawi, Ali Khasraji, and Nasser Khafajian (Khafaji) were executed inside Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz, the capital of Iran's Khuzestan Province, on February 28, 2021, without ...

Narges Mohammadi Video Message: Evin Prison Director Personally Assaulted Me

Narges Mohammadi Video Message: Evin Prison Director Personally Assaulted Me

February 28, 2021

Following is an excerpted translation by the Center for Human Rights in Iran of comments made by the renowned rights activist and former prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi in a February 26, 2021, video message about being assaulted by the director of Evin Prison and other security ...

36 Human Rights Groups Appeal for Release of Kurdish Detainees and Other Minorities in Iran

36 Human Rights Groups Appeal for Release of Kurdish Detainees and Other Minorities in Iran

February 4, 2021

The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has joined 35 fellow civil society and human rights organizations to make the following urgent appeal and end the ongoing intimidation and arrest campaign against Kurdish and other minority activists and individuals in Iran.   URGENT INTERNATIONAL ACTION NEEDED TO SECURE RELEASE OF ...

Book Review: Nasser Mohajer, Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988

Book Review: Nasser Mohajer, Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988

October 27, 2020

Book Review Nasser Mohajer, Voices of a Massacre: Untold Stories of Life and Death in Iran, 1988 Oneworld  Publications, 2020 Mansour Farhang In 1988, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a secret fatwa (a religious edict) ordering judicial authorities to execute between 4,500 and ...

Prisoner on Death Row Not Allowed to Attend Funeral of Grieving Father Who Committed Suicide

Prisoner on Death Row Not Allowed to Attend Funeral of Grieving Father Who Committed Suicide

October 1, 2020

Father of Amirhossein Moradi Distraught Over His Son’s Unjust Death Sentence Iranian authorities have rejected requests by Amirhossein Moradi, who has been sentenced to death on a false murder charge, to attend the funeral of his father, Nasser Moradi, who committed suicide from grief ...

New Charges Thrown at Political Prisoners to Keep Them Behind Bars

New Charges Thrown at Political Prisoners to Keep Them Behind Bars

September 30, 2020

Rushed Convictions Show Judiciary Willing to Do Bidding of Intelligence Forces State Responds to Growing Societal Discontent with Intensified Efforts to Silence All Dissent October 1, 2020—In a blatant move to keep political prisoners in Iran behind bars despite completing their sentences, judicial authorities in Iran are increasingly issuing ...

Showdown at Haft Tappeh Sugar Factory: Minor Win for Workers, Larger Abuses Left Unchecked

Showdown at Haft Tappeh Sugar Factory: Minor Win for Workers, Larger Abuses Left Unchecked

September 30, 2020

Court Annuls Privatization of Company but Unpaid Wages and Withheld Insurance Benefits Persist “We are going to witness a big wave of labor protests spreading from the south to other parts of the country” It has been almost three months since the workers at Iran’s Haft Tappeh Cane ...

Witness to the Torture of Executed Champion Wrestler Navid Afkari Held Incommunicado

Witness to the Torture of Executed Champion Wrestler Navid Afkari Held Incommunicado

September 29, 2020

Shahin Naseri Transferred to Police Security Unit, Told Not to Testify in Court Witness States He Saw Afkari Being Severely Beaten with Metal Rod Shahin Naseri, a witness to the torture of Navid Afkari, the wrestler who was executed in Iran on September 12, 2020, has been held ...

Danger of Imminent Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner, Lawyer Says

Danger of Imminent Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner, Lawyer Says

September 22, 2020

Supreme Court Refuses to Review Death Sentence Despite Lack of Evidence of Guilt Kurdish political prisoner Heydar Ghorbani is in danger of imminent execution as Iran’s highest court has refused to review the death sentence against him, his lawyer Saleh Nikbakht told the Center for Human Rights in ...

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