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The U.N. and Iran

New UN Report Assails Iran for Persistent Discrimination against Women

New UN Report Assails Iran for Persistent Discrimination against Women

February 15, 2021

Juvenile Executions, Persecution of Human Rights Defenders Also Condemned In the latest report issued by the UN’s top expert on Iran, UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran Javaid Rehman expressed alarm and concern over a broad range of human rights violations in ...

UN Experts Condemn Iran’s Executions of Baloch Minority Prisoners

UN Experts Condemn Iran’s Executions of Baloch Minority Prisoners

February 4, 2021

Following is the UN statement issued today condemning the Iranian judiciary's hanging of Javid Dehghan, a member of the country's Baloch minority, amid a recent increase in executions of Baloch minority prisoners in the country. Iran: UN experts alarmed over execution of Baloch minority ...

Major Humanitarian Organizations Call for Access to COVID-19 Vaccines for Iranians

Major Humanitarian Organizations Call for Access to COVID-19 Vaccines for Iranians

December 22, 2020

US Government Must Provide Assurances that Sanctions Will Not Impede Purchases A coalition of major human rights and humanitarian organizations released a statement today, calling on the US government to ensure that Iranians would have access to “safe, effective, and affordable Covid-19 vaccines.” It noted that US ...

Comment by UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet on the Execution in Iran of Ruhollah Zam

Comment by UN High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet on the Execution in Iran of Ruhollah Zam

December 15, 2020

Geneva, 14 December 2020 I am appalled at the execution in Iran on 12 December of Ruhollah Zam, activist and founder of the AmadNews Telegram channel. His death sentence and execution by hanging are emblematic of a pattern of forced confessions extracted under torture and broadcast on state media being used ...

Beautiful Holiday Gift: A Book of Illustrations and Essays on Human Rights

Beautiful Holiday Gift: A Book of Illustrations and Essays on Human Rights

December 9, 2020

The book, published by the Center for Human Rights in Iran, highlights the days set aside by the international community for reflection and action on rights that are fundamental to the human condition—and the struggle for these rights in Iran. Days to Remember is not only a special holiday gift for those on your list who ...

Iran Must Not Execute Ahmadreza Djalali

Iran Must Not Execute Ahmadreza Djalali

November 25, 2020

Execution Reported to Be Imminent, Wife Has Received Farewell Call Swedish-Iranian Doctor Was Convicted on Spurious Charges After Unfair Trial November 25, 2020—The reported imminent execution of Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian doctor and academic who was convicted in Iran on manufactured espionage charges after an unfair trial, ...

Top UN Experts: Iran Must Halt Execution of Ahmadreza Djalali

Top UN Experts: Iran Must Halt Execution of Ahmadreza Djalali

November 25, 2020

Execution of Swedish Doctor “would be a clear and serious violation” of law The UN issued a statement today calling for an immediate halt to the execution of Ahmadreza Djalali, which is reportedly imminent. The Swedish-Iranian medical scholar was convicted on spurious charges in 2017 after an unfair ...

UN: Iran Must Quash Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Convictions and Ensure Her Permanent Release

UN: Iran Must Quash Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Convictions and Ensure Her Permanent Release

November 13, 2020

Top Experts Say Her COVID-19 Diagnosis “Shows the real risks for those in detention in Iran” Top UN experts* released a statement today, welcoming the temporary release of human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh on November 7, 2020, who had been imprisoned since 2018 on manufactured charges, ...

UN: Iran Must Conduct Independent Inquiry into Violence against Protests in November 2019

UN: Iran Must Conduct Independent Inquiry into Violence against Protests in November 2019

October 27, 2020

“Nasrin Sotoudeh and all other individuals arbitrarily detained must be immediately released” The UN’s top expert on Iran, Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, said in a statement today, October 26, 2020, that the ...

UN Press Release: Citing COVID Risk, Bachelet Calls on Iran to Release Jailed Human Rights Defenders

UN Press Release: Citing COVID Risk, Bachelet Calls on Iran to Release Jailed Human Rights Defenders

October 7, 2020

Iran is “Using the criminal justice system as a tool to silence civil society” Farsi version Geneva (6 October 2020) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Tuesday expressed deep concern at the deteriorating situation of human rights defenders, lawyers and political prisoners held in ...

Top UN Experts Demand Immediate Release of Nasrin Sotoudeh

Top UN Experts Demand Immediate Release of Nasrin Sotoudeh

September 25, 2020

UN Calls Her Return to Prison “Unfathomable” and “State Retaliation for Her Tireless Work Defending Human Rights”  Sixteen of the UN’s top experts released a statement today demanding that Iran immediately release imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh for medical treatment, saying it was “unfathomable” that ...

Leading Academics and Policy Experts Call on Iran to Release Imprisoned Dual Nationals

Leading Academics and Policy Experts Call on Iran to Release Imprisoned Dual Nationals

September 18, 2020

The use of prisoners as bargaining chips in order to coerce other governments to provide concessions is a cruel policy” A group of prominent academics, policy experts, former government officials, parliamentarians and diplomats released a statement on September 15, 2020, calling on the Government of Iran to ...

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 ...

Top UN Iran Expert Expresses “Alarm” at Iran’s “Unprecedented Violent Crackdown” against Protestors

Top UN Iran Expert Expresses “Alarm” at Iran’s “Unprecedented Violent Crackdown” against Protestors

September 11, 2020

Imprisonment of Lawyers and Human Rights Defenders, Juvenile Executions, Singled Out for Condemnation In the latest report by the UN’s top expert on Iran, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Javaid Rehman, expressed “alarm” and “dismay” over ...

22 Rights Organizations Call for UN-Led Inquiry Into Repression of Iran’s November 2019 Protests

22 Rights Organizations Call for UN-Led Inquiry Into Repression of Iran’s November 2019 Protests

September 9, 2020

A session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Urgent Need for Accountabilty After “Brutal Campaign of Mass Repression by the Iranian Authorities” A coalition of international rights organizations, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), has called on all UN Member ...

UN Press Release: Bachelet Alarmed by Threats against Prominent Iranian NGO

UN Press Release: Bachelet Alarmed by Threats against Prominent Iranian NGO

July 30, 2020

Farsi Version (PDF) GENEVA (30 July 2020) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, said today she was alarmed by the Iranian Government’s increased pressure on a prominent civil society group working on poverty and social protection, and the arrest of its founding ...

UN Press Release: Experts Demand Urgent Release from Prison of Narges Mohammadi and other Arbitrarily Detained Prisoners

UN Press Release: Experts Demand Urgent Release from Prison of Narges Mohammadi and other Arbitrarily Detained Prisoners

July 22, 2020

Farsi Version (PDF) GENEVA (22 July 2020) – Iran must release human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, reportedly ill with coronavirus symptoms, and other arbitrarily detained individuals before it is too late, a group of UN human rights experts* said today. The group of 16 experts expressed grave concerns ...

UN Press Release: Experts Demand Iran Quash Death Sentences Against Protesters

UN Press Release: Experts Demand Iran Quash Death Sentences Against Protesters

July 16, 2020

Farsi version Farsi version (PDF) GENEVA (16 July 2020) – UN human rights experts today strongly condemned the decision to uphold death sentences against three men for participating in protests in November 2019. The three – Amir Hossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi, and Mohammad Rajabi – ...

UN Condemns Iran’s Secret Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner

UN Condemns Iran’s Secret Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner

July 3, 2020

“I will pay the price of freedom with my life so that my memory stays in the hearts of freedom seekers and my people.” UN human rights experts have strongly condemned the Iranian judiciary's secret execution of 27-year-old ...

UN Must End “Sterile Exchanges” and Investigate Iran’s Lethal Violence against Protesters, Says Father of Slain Demonstrator

UN Must End “Sterile Exchanges” and Investigate Iran’s Lethal Violence against Protesters, Says Father of Slain Demonstrator

June 28, 2020

Letter Reveals New Details: 144 Bodies Secretly Held in Karaj Medical Examiner’s Office Alone  June 29, 2020 — In an impassioned plea to top UN officials, the father of Pouya Bakhtiyari, who was one of hundreds of demonstrators shot and killed by Iranian security forces during ...

Persian Translation: UN Guidance on Protecting People with Disabilities from COVID-19

Persian Translation: UN Guidance on Protecting People with Disabilities from COVID-19

May 12, 2020

May 12, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) today published an unofficial Persian translation of the UN’s recent guidance note and accompanying press release on how states can mitigate the disproportionate risks faced by persons with disabilities during the COVID-19 ...

Australian Academic Who Attempted Suicide Should be Freed from Unlawful Confinement in Iran

Australian Academic Who Attempted Suicide Should be Freed from Unlawful Confinement in Iran

May 7, 2020

Scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert Kept in Bathroom-Like Temporary Holding Cell Since 2018 May 7, 2020 – A British-Australian academic held in isolation in Iran since September 2018, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, has repeatedly attempted suicide and could be in extreme danger, according to information received by the Center for Human ...

Political Prisoner with COVID-19 Symptoms Denied Treatment, Transferred to Solitary Confinement

Political Prisoner with COVID-19 Symptoms Denied Treatment, Transferred to Solitary Confinement

April 8, 2020

Peaceful prisoner of conscience Mohammad Hossein Sepehri, who was imprisoned in the Iranian city of Mashhad after signing an open letter calling on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to resign, was denied hospital treatment and transferred to solitary confinement without his medication after exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms, his ...

Persian Translation: WHO Guidance on Protecting Prison Populations from COVID-19

Persian Translation: WHO Guidance on Protecting Prison Populations from COVID-19

April 8, 2020

April 8, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran today published its unofficial Persian translation of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) interim guidance on how to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19 in prisons, and made it available online for free use ...

Rights Attorneys Call for Release of All Eligible Prisoners: “Tomorrow Will be Too Late”

Rights Attorneys Call for Release of All Eligible Prisoners: “Tomorrow Will be Too Late”

April 2, 2020

As inmates in Iran continue to be killed or injured in "prison disturbances" amid the country's devastating COVID-19 outbreak, two defense attorneys in Tehran have joined the growing chorus of domestic and international voices that has been calling on Iranian authorities ...

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