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The U.N. and Iran

20 Prominent Iranian Lawyers Call on UN to Investigate School Girl Poisonings

20 Prominent Iranian Lawyers Call on UN to Investigate School Girl Poisonings

March 6, 2023

Over 1,000 Students, Mostly Girls, Poisoned by Gas in Iran Since November 2022 March 6, 2023 – Twenty prominent human rights lawyers from Iran today published a letter urgently calling for an independent, joint committee—comprised of experts from the world’s top public health, children’s rights, and education-focused UN agencies—to immediately investigate ...

Iran Protests: More Doctors Treating Protesters Killed, Tortured and Detained

Iran Protests: More Doctors Treating Protesters Killed, Tortured and Detained

February 10, 2023

Global Medical Community Must Speak Out Against Severe Violation of International Law February 10, 2023 — An increasing number of doctors and medical workers continue to be arrested, detained, tortured and killed by Islamic Republic forces for treating wounded protesters, in direct violation of international law that requires the protection of medical ...

New Briefing: Failure to Increase International Costs on Islamic Republic Will Green-Light Further Atrocities

New Briefing: Failure to Increase International Costs on Islamic Republic Will Green-Light Further Atrocities

February 7, 2023

Recommendations Lay Out Tangible Actions Governments Can Take to Address Violent Repression February 7, 2023 – More than four months into the Islamic Republic’s violent suppression of nationwide protests in Iran, in which hundreds have been killed in the streets by state security forces and scores sentenced to ...

Policy Briefing: Recommendations for the International Community on Iran

Policy Briefing: Recommendations for the International Community on Iran

February 7, 2023

Imposing Costs on the Islamic Republic for Its Human Rights Atrocities View a PDF version of this briefing here. View this briefing’s press release here. INTRODUCTION February 8, 2023 —Since anti-government protests broke out across Iran after the death in state custody of 22-year-old Jina ...

Suspicious Deaths of Released Protesters in Iran Should be Investigated by UN

Suspicious Deaths of Released Protesters in Iran Should be Investigated by UN

January 19, 2023

Credible Evidence Challenges Iranian Authorities’ Claims of “Suicides” Families Describe Visibly Tortured Bodies, Fabricated Evidence, Forced Quick Burials January 19, 2023 – The UN Fact-Finding Mission should investigate the suspicious deaths of a number of recently released detained protesters, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said ...

Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women

Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women

December 14, 2022

Two Major UN Votes Signal World’s Revulsion at Islamic Republic’s Violence against Protesters December 14, 2022 – The vote today by the UN Economic and Social Council to remove the Islamic Republic of Iran from the UN Commission on the Status of Women—following a vote in November by the UN Human ...

Iran Protests: Massacre in Kurdish Areas Feared as Security Forces Launch Lethal Crackdown

Iran Protests: Massacre in Kurdish Areas Feared as Security Forces Launch Lethal Crackdown

November 21, 2022

Authorities Shut Down Internet to Prevent Evidence of State’s Atrocities from Reaching Outside World November 21, 2022 – With Iranian security forces launching a massive assault on protesters in Kurdish-populated cities in Iran, and mounting deaths being reported, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...

Joint Statement: 21 Iranian Human Rights Lawyers Urge UN to Stop Child Killings in Iran

Joint Statement: 21 Iranian Human Rights Lawyers Urge UN to Stop Child Killings in Iran

November 21, 2022

In a joint statement obtained by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) and translated into English, 21 Iranian human rights lawyers have called on UN officials and agencies to take immediate steps to end child killings in Iran, where at least 50 children have been killed ...

Three More Children Killed as Iranian Merchants Close Shops in Solidarity with Uprising

Three More Children Killed as Iranian Merchants Close Shops in Solidarity with Uprising

November 18, 2022

November 18, 2022 – In a strong show of support for their country’s growing protest movement, and as children continue to be among those killed by state security forces, merchants in major cities closed their shops this week, which marked the third anniversary of the state’s violent suppression of the ...

UN Experts Urge Iran to Stop Sentencing Peaceful Protesters to Death

UN Experts Urge Iran to Stop Sentencing Peaceful Protesters to Death

November 14, 2022

Heeding calls by human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), 16 UN-appointed independent human rights experts have called on Iranian authorities to stop indicting people with charges punishable by death for participating in peaceful demonstrations ...

Face-Off in Iran: State Security Forces Attack Protesters on Day of Mourning for Mahsa Amini

Face-Off in Iran: State Security Forces Attack Protesters on Day of Mourning for Mahsa Amini

October 26, 2022

UN Special Rapporteurs Echo Calls by Rights Groups for Action by Human Rights Council  Tehran Medical Council President, Deputy Resign One Day After Doctors Release Statement Condemning State Repression Peaceful protesters faced off with heavily armed state security forces in dozens of cities across ...

Briefing: Addressing State Atrocities Against Protesters in Iran

Briefing: Addressing State Atrocities Against Protesters in Iran

October 21, 2022

Recommendations for the U.S. Government and the International Community View a PDF version of this briefing here. View this briefing's press release here. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since the September 16, 2022, killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini by Iran’s police for “improper” hijab, Islamic Republic security ...

Joint Statement: 43 Rights Groups Call for Urgent Action on Iran at UN Human Rights Council

Joint Statement: 43 Rights Groups Call for Urgent Action on Iran at UN Human Rights Council

October 17, 2022

Forty-three human rights groups, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), today urged the UN Human Rights Council to urgently hold a special session that should establish an independent mechanism with investigative, reporting and accountability functions to address the most serious ...

Joint Letter: Human Rights Groups Urge Biden to Help Protect Iran’s Protesters

Joint Letter: Human Rights Groups Urge Biden to Help Protect Iran’s Protesters

October 6, 2022

The following letter, signed by 21 human rights groups including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, was sent on October 6, 2022, to the offices of U.S. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and the U.S. Representative to the UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Download a PDF of the letter ...

Iran Protests: Lawyers Call for Fact-Finding Commission, Referendum

Iran Protests: Lawyers Call for Fact-Finding Commission, Referendum

September 26, 2022

A group of prominent Iranian lawyers has called for international action amid nationwide protests that erupted in Iran on September 16, 2022, following the death in state custody of Mahsa Amini, and which have been centered around advancing social and political change. The lawyers’ statement comes ...

Iran’s Raisi to Freely Address UNGA While Crushing Rights and Freedoms at Home

Iran’s Raisi to Freely Address UNGA While Crushing Rights and Freedoms at Home

September 19, 2022

Mahsa Amini’s Death in State Custody Should be Investigated as Murder World Must Condemn Violent Repression of Protests and Civil Society September 19, 2022 – President Ebrahim Raisi will use his platform at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on September 21 to freely address world leaders at ...

Interview: Mansour Farhang on How a UN Special Rapporteur Was “Deceived on Human Rights” in Iran

Interview: Mansour Farhang on How a UN Special Rapporteur Was “Deceived on Human Rights” in Iran

September 14, 2022

A recent trip by a UN special rapporteur to Iran could have been a historic moment—had she responded to an open letter by human rights activists to meet. Instead, Alena Douhan, the UN’s special rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures, ignored ...

UN Should Condemn Renewed Crackdown on Persecuted Baha’i Faith in Iran

UN Should Condemn Renewed Crackdown on Persecuted Baha’i Faith in Iran

August 5, 2022

August 5, 2022 – Increasing arbitrary arrests of members of the persecuted Baha’i faith in Iran, and an intensifying government-sponsored campaign of destruction and confiscation of their properties should be internationally condemned, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion ...

Gharchak Prison in Iran: A Cauldron of Abuse and Violations

Gharchak Prison in Iran: A Cauldron of Abuse and Violations

August 5, 2022

Longstanding, Severe Violations of International Standards for Prisoners  International Community Should Demand Closure of Facility For more than a decade, the inmates incarcerated at Iran’s Gharchak Prison for women have been desperately protesting inhumane, unsafe and unlawful conditions at the facility that violate all international norms and standards for prisons. Consistent reports of ...

UN Expert Welcomes Historic Verdict in Universal Jurisdiction Case on Iran

UN Expert Welcomes Historic Verdict in Universal Jurisdiction Case on Iran

July 15, 2022

Lauding a landmark universal jurisdiction conviction in Sweden against Hamid Nouri, an Iranian official accused of mass atrocities, the UN special rapporteur on Iran said today, “The process and verdict in Sweden constitute a landmark and important leap forward ...

Borrell, EU Must Speak Out Against Growing Human Rights Crisis in Iran

Borrell, EU Must Speak Out Against Growing Human Rights Crisis in Iran

June 27, 2022

Same Efforts Applied to Nuclear Deal Can and Should Be Given to Human Rights President Biden Has Also Remained Silent on State’s Violent Crackdown in Iran June 27, 2022 - European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, who has traveled travel to Tehran and issued multiple public ...

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 ...

UN Secretary General Condemns Increasing Executions, Worsening Repression in Raisi’s Iran

UN Secretary General Condemns Increasing Executions, Worsening Repression in Raisi’s Iran

June 21, 2022

In his latest report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed deep concern over the rising number of executions in the Islamic of Iran, as well as "patterns of arbitrary deprivation of life due to excessive force used by the authorities ...

UN Experts Alarmed by Civil Society Crackdown in Iran

UN Experts Alarmed by Civil Society Crackdown in Iran

June 15, 2022

UN human rights experts today expressed serious concerns about a violent crackdown against civil society in Iran, including members of workers’ unions and teachers arrested for protesting against their low salaries and poor working conditions, and urged those responsible for using excessive force to be held to ...

UN Urges Iran to Revoke Execution of Swedish Academic Ahmadreza Djalali

UN Urges Iran to Revoke Execution of Swedish Academic Ahmadreza Djalali

May 17, 2022

Ahmadreza Djalali, an expert in emergency disaster medicine, has been detained in Iran on trumped-up charges since April 2016. Iranian authorities should revoke ...

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