Global Leaders Must Demand Emergency Protections and Immediate Release of Political Prisoners Hundreds Being Arrested, Minorities Targeted, Judiciary Pledges to Fast-Track Cases June 23, 2025 — In the wake ...
CHRI Warns Iran May Use Wartime Chaos to Execute Political Prisoners June 19, 2025 — As the war between Iran and Israel intensifies, the Center for Human Rights in ...
Legal Scholar Asks for Emergency Furloughs and Releases for Trapped Prisoners June 18, 2025 — From Tehran’s Evin Prison, woman political prisoner and international law scholar ...
Shirin Ebadi: UNICEF Headquarters Should Act Where Local Iran Office Has Failed June 11, 2025 —Nobel Peace Prize laureate and renowned human rights lawyer ...
Families Pressured to Remain Silent to Obtain Release of Loved Ones Largest Labor Protests in Years Gain Momentum as Strike Enters Third Week June 4, 2025 — A ...
Systematic Denial of Medical Care in Iran: A Slow and Silent Execution May 27, 2025 — From Evin Prison, woman political prisoner and international law scholar ...
At Least 19 Writers and Poets Targeted in 2025, One Sentenced to Death “Lawyers working on such cases face threats, stigmatization, fabricated charges, arrest and disbarment” May 20, 2025 ...
New CHRI Fact Sheet Exposes Deepening Legal Crisis for Iran’s Embattled Lawyers Vanishing Defenders: Fewer Than 12 Lawyers Left to Represent Thousands in Iran’s Courts May 14, 2025—Iran is ...
May 5, 2025 — In a letter obtained by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), Issa Ebrahimzadeh, a Kurdish farmer and labor rights ...
19 Labor Activists Still Imprisoned, One Woman at Risk of Execution Over 2000 Workers Dead in Last 12 Months Due to Unsafe Working Conditions April 30, 2025 – ...
This article was originally published on The Hill. April 24, 2025 By Michael Eisner, the general counsel of the Center for Human Rights ...
Over 100 Executed in Just Three Months for Drug Offences Former Prisoner and Lawyers Reveal Blatantly Unlawful Judicial Proceedings April 16, 2025 — Hundreds of men and women ...
Collective Action Is Only Way to Address Iran’s Hostage Taking Conditions of Imprisoned Dual and Foreign Nationals: “Comparable to torture under international law” April ...
Executions Follow Sham Trials and “Confessions” Extracted Under Torture At Least 50 Political Prisoners Now Facing Execution in Iran, Including Three Women April 9, 2025 — At dawn ...
All of Iran’s Ongoing Human Rights Crimes To Be Investigated 24 States Vote to Expand Accountability for Iran’s Atrocities April 3, 2025 – In a significant step toward ...
Judge to Christian: “It’s a disgrace that you are even breathing the air in this sacred courtroom. You should go to prison right now.” Over 300 ...
Iran’s Lawyers in a “Perilous Position,” Face Arrest, Torture and Imprisonment Statement Asks UN to Relay Concerns Directly to Iranian Authorities March 18, 2025—In a joint statement released ...
Work of the Special Rapporteur and the Fact-Finding Mission Deemed Critical Given “Full-fledged Human Rights Crisis” in Iran March 18, 2025 – A broad coalition of international human rights organizations, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), has issued an urgent public appeal urging Member States of ...
Fact-Finding Mission Cites Widescale Murder, Imprisonment, Torture and Rape UN: Systematic Abuses Continue, Accountability Outside Iran Should be Pursued March 14, 2025 – In a new report based on a two-year investigation, the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran (FFMI) states that two and a half years after ...
At Least Four Prisoners Dead in Just Two Months CHRI Speaks to Cellmate of Political Prisoner Who Died Due to Medical Neglect March 12, 2025 — At least ...
This International Women’s Day, the World Must Declare Gender Apartheid a Crime Against Humanity March 6, 2025 — In Iran, women are second-class citizens—systematically oppressed by laws ...
Refugees in Turkey at High Risk of Imprisonment, Torture if Returned to Iran February 25, 2025 — We, the undersigned organizations, urgently call on the Turkish government to immediately halt the deportation of ...
February 20, 2025 — In a joint statement released today, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) alongside nineteen human rights organizations, condemned the appointment ...
Sharifeh Mohammadi’s Second Death Sentence Imposed on Her Son’s 13th Birthday Three Women Political Prisoners Face Execution on Sham Charges February 19, 2025 — Iranian authorities have once again sentenced female labor activist...
Trump has significant leverage to negotiate a new nuclear deal with Tehran that also protects protesters. This article was originally published on Foreign Policy. February ...