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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 ...

UN “Strongly Condemns” Iran’s Execution of 27-Year-Old Wrestler

UN “Strongly Condemns” Iran’s Execution of 27-Year-Old Wrestler

September 14, 2020

Execution of Navid Afkari: “Imposed following a process that did not meet even the most basic…fair trial standards, behind a smokescreen of a murder charge” UN human rights experts released a statement today “strongly condemning” Iran’s execution of Navid Afkari, who was put to death by hanging ...

Execution of Navid Afkari: “Iran’s Judiciary is a Tool of Political Repression and Violence and a Threat to the People”

Execution of Navid Afkari: “Iran’s Judiciary is a Tool of Political Repression and Violence and a Threat to the People”

September 12, 2020

Champion Wrestler Executed despite Evidence of Torture and Innocence September 12, 2020—The execution of Navid Afkari, the 27-year-old champion wrestler, by hanging at sunrise today in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, demonstrates the Iranian judiciary’s complete disregard for law, justice and international standards of due process. The ...

Death Sentence for Champion Wrestler Based on False Evidence, Torture and Forced False Confessions

Death Sentence for Champion Wrestler Based on False Evidence, Torture and Forced False Confessions

September 2, 2020

Lawyer for Navid Afkari: Video Footage Proves He Did Not Commit Alleged Crime “There is not one shred of evidence ... they are looking for a neck for their rope” September 2, 2020—The Iranian wrestling champion Navid Afkari has been sentenced to death for allegedly killing a security man ...

Death Sentences for Five Men Upheld Despite Allegations of Torture, False Confessions

Death Sentences for Five Men Upheld Despite Allegations of Torture, False Confessions

July 31, 2020

Evidence Contradicting Guilt Ignored in Effort to Cover Up Security Forces’ Culpability July 31, 2020—Death sentences against five men arrested in Isfahan Province, central Iran, in connection with nationwide protests during December 2017-January 2018, have been upheld by the Supreme Court, a source with knowledge about ...

Sepideh Qoliyan Refuses to Beg for Pardon, Goes Back to Prison

Sepideh Qoliyan Refuses to Beg for Pardon, Goes Back to Prison

June 25, 2020

She Must Serve Five-year Sentence for Reporting on Peaceful Labor Rally Freelance reporter Sepideh Qoliyan, issued a five-year sentence for reporting on a peaceful rally by sugar mill workers for unpaid wages, has had to report to prison to begin serving her sentence—even though some of her ...

“They Aimed at My Son’s Head”: Report Reveals Carnage in Crushed Iran Protests

“They Aimed at My Son’s Head”: Report Reveals Carnage in Crushed Iran Protests

May 26, 2020

May 27, 2020 — A new report released today by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) documents the extraordinary state violence that was used against protesters in Iran during the unrest that gripped the country in November 2019 and January 2020. The 66-page report, Gunning ...

“Torture” and “Sexual Threats” Detailed in Letters by Jailed Former UN Environment Consultant

“Torture” and “Sexual Threats” Detailed in Letters by Jailed Former UN Environment Consultant

February 20, 2020

Conservation Scientist Niloufar Bayani: "Every time I... sought help from the authorities, the pressures, threats, and acts of torture increased." Appeals Court Upheld Prison Sentences Against Conservationists on Baseless Charges and Coerced “Confessions” February 20, 2020 – A female former UN Environment consultant’s complaints of physical and psychological torture ...

Detained Protestors in Iran: Beaten, Tortured, Forced to “Confess”

Detained Protestors in Iran: Beaten, Tortured, Forced to “Confess”

February 10, 2020

February 10, 2020 – Detainees held in Iran since the November 2019 street protests—including juveniles—are being beaten, forced to make self-incriminating statements and held in inhumane incarceration conditions, and their families are not being informed of their whereabouts and condition, the Center for Human Rights in Iran ...

Moore-Gilbert’s Letter to Australian PM: “Do Whatever it Takes to Get Me Out”

Moore-Gilbert’s Letter to Australian PM: “Do Whatever it Takes to Get Me Out”

December 26, 2019

Melboune University Scholar's Open Letter Describes: "Psychological Torture," Prolonged Solitary Confinement Unjust Arrest by Revolutionary Guards to "Lure" Her Husband to Iran 10-Year Prison Sentence on Espionage Conviction Without "Shred of Real Evidence" No Improvement Six Months After Urging Australian Government to "Do More" In a letter obtained ...

Family of Marivan Man Found in Dam: “We Are Sure He Died in Detention Under Torture”

Family of Marivan Man Found in Dam: “We Are Sure He Died in Detention Under Torture”

December 20, 2019

*Warning: This article contains details that may be disturbing to some readers. The family of 25-year-old Ershad Rahmanian, whose body was found in the Garan Dam near the city of Marivan, Kurdistan Province, believes he died under torture in mid-December 2019 after being arrested for allegedly participating in ...

Blacklisted Tehran University Student Activist Detained Incommunicado

Blacklisted Tehran University Student Activist Detained Incommunicado

December 16, 2019

University of Tehran student activist Soha Mortezaei’s sign reads, “I have been blacklisted by the university’s security office and ...

Reports of Bystanders Killed by Security Forces Firing Indiscriminately at Protestors Grow

Reports of Bystanders Killed by Security Forces Firing Indiscriminately at Protestors Grow

December 3, 2019

Young Man Killed by Bullet While Stuck in Traffic During Protest in Isfahan Reports of bystanders who were killed by security forces in Iran because they happened to be near protestors continue to mount with the lifting of the state-imposed internet shutdown and news blackout in the country. Arsham ...

Housewife Killed by Bullet to Neck While Helping Wounded Protestor, Family Forced To Pay to Take Body

Housewife Killed by Bullet to Neck While Helping Wounded Protestor, Family Forced To Pay to Take Body

December 2, 2019

Family Surrounded by Agents at Funeral, Warned to Keep Mourning Crowd Small An unarmed civilian and mother of three young children, Ameneh Shahbazi, was killed by a bullet as she was trying to help a person shot in the leg during a protest, her brother, Mohammad Shahbazi, said ...

No Action Yet in Parliament on Bill to Ban Broadcast of Confessions During Investigations

No Action Yet in Parliament on Bill to Ban Broadcast of Confessions During Investigations

November 8, 2019

Bill Does Not Ban Extraction of Confessions, They Can Still Be Used at Later Stages An Iranian parliamentary bill that aims to stop state-funded media outlets from airing forced “confessions” during the investigative phase appears at a standstill more than a month after it was introduced by Member ...

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