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Civil Rights Defender Farhad Meysami at Risk of Death in Iranian Prison

Civil Rights Defender Farhad Meysami at Risk of Death in Iranian Prison

February 2, 2023

Meysami Hunger-Striking to Demand End to Political Executions and Compulsory Hijab February 2, 2023 – The UN and international human rights organizations should urgently demand that the Iranian judiciary release political prisoner Farhad Meysami, a civil and women's rights defender whose life is in danger, said ...

Children’s Rights Advocates, Mainly Women, Targeted in Crackdown on Anti-State Protests in Iran

Children’s Rights Advocates, Mainly Women, Targeted in Crackdown on Anti-State Protests in Iran

February 1, 2023

Women Aiding Vulnerable Children Detained As State Broadens Efforts to Crush Movement for Change February 1, 2023 – Women who have devoted their lives to aiding underprivileged and at-risk youth in Iran have come under increasing attack by the Iranian government in its violent ...

Recommendations for the U.S. Congress on Iran

Recommendations for the U.S. Congress on Iran

December 21, 2022

Read our Press Release Read the recommendations in a PDF Since peaceful protests erupted across Iran in September 2022, the Islamic Republic has sought to crush them by killing hundreds of men and women, including dozens of children, arresting thousands, and executing ...

Iran: Death Sentences and Imprisonment Used to Crush Dissent in Film and Theatre Industries

Iran: Death Sentences and Imprisonment Used to Crush Dissent in Film and Theatre Industries

December 20, 2022

26-Year-Old Actor Sentenced to Death, More Than 100 Industry Members Imprisoned December 20, 2022 – The sentencing of theater actor Hossein Mohammadi to death in Iran after a show trial, and the arbitrary detentions of more than 100 film and theatre industry workers including superstar ...

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: Voices from Iran (Updated)

Iran Protests: Voices from Iran (Updated)

November 22, 2022

As nationwide protests continue to sweep Iran, there are very few direct voices from inside Iran reaching the international stage. An understanding of the fabric of the society and its rapidly evolving outlook and demands is essential for understanding the protests and what the international community ...

Hero Climber Elnaz Rekabi Deserves Support of Climbing Organizations, International Community

Hero Climber Elnaz Rekabi Deserves Support of Climbing Organizations, International Community

October 19, 2022

International Federation of Sport Climbing Should Suspend Islamic Republic’s Membership Serious Concerns for Rekabi, Under Extreme Pressure by State Since Competing without Hijab October 19, 2022 – Climbing organizations and professionals, as well as the international community, should stand with professional climber Elnaz Rekabi, who is under ...

Iran Protests: Grave Concerns for Extreme State Violence Amid Rising Death Toll

Iran Protests: Grave Concerns for Extreme State Violence Amid Rising Death Toll

September 21, 2022

World Leaders Must Call on Iranian Officials to Immediately Cease Use of Lethal Force, Allow Peaceful Protest September 21, 2022 – On the sixth day of protests in Iran that have followed the death in state custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, the Center for Human Rights ...

Mahsa Amini’s Father: “Everything They Have Said and Shown is Lies”

Mahsa Amini’s Father: “Everything They Have Said and Shown is Lies”

September 20, 2022

In an interview with Rouydad24 (“Event24”), a semi-independent reformist news site in Iran, the father of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in Iranian state custody, strongly contradicted the authorities’ narrative about his daughter’s death and demanded justice. “What makes me sad is that the authorities are spreading ...

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 ...

Mahsa Amini is Another Victim of the Islamic Republic’s War on Women

Mahsa Amini is Another Victim of the Islamic Republic’s War on Women

September 16, 2022

Protesters in Tehran Call for “Death to the Oppressor” September 16, 2022 – The death of Mahsa Amini, 22, after being declared medically braindead following her arrest by so-called morality police in Tehran is a preventable tragedy that should be strongly condemned worldwide to prevent further ...

Interview: Mansoureh Shojaee on Disillusionment and Fortitude in the Struggle for Women’s Rights

Interview: Mansoureh Shojaee on Disillusionment and Fortitude in the Struggle for Women’s Rights

September 13, 2022

Women's rights activist Mansoureh Shojaee is an author and researcher based in the Netherlands. In 1980, on International Women’s Day, 22-year-old university student Mansoureh Shojaee joined one of Iran’s largest street protests against the compulsory hijab. This was one year ...

Statements by Iranian Officials Who’ve Criticized the State’s Forced Hijab Policy

Statements by Iranian Officials Who’ve Criticized the State’s Forced Hijab Policy

August 24, 2022

As the government of President Ebrahim Raisi, a devoted soldier of unelected “supreme leader” Ali Khamenei, works to implement stricter enforcement of the compulsory hijab as well as harsher repression of basic rights, a report by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...

Sepideh Rashnoo: Latest Target of Raisi Government’s Campaign of Repression

Sepideh Rashnoo: Latest Target of Raisi Government’s Campaign of Repression

August 23, 2022

*Editor's Note: Sepideh Rashnoo was released on bail on August 30, 2022, while she awaits her trial. August 23, 2022 – Charges filed against a woman in Iran, Sepideh Rashnoo, after she was accosted by another woman who accused her of failing to comply with the government’s compulsory hijab law, ...

International Women’s Day: Women in Iran are Leading the Struggle for Human Rights

International Women’s Day: Women in Iran are Leading the Struggle for Human Rights

March 7, 2022

Despite Abuses and Discrimination, Women Fight for Justice, Equality, and Rights for All March 7, 2022 – On the eve of International Women’s Day, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) celebrates women everywhere who are at the vanguard of the struggle for human rights despite ...

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 ...

Interview: Mina Khani on the “Serious Ramifications” for Women in Iran’s New Population Growth Law

Interview: Mina Khani on the “Serious Ramifications” for Women in Iran’s New Population Growth Law

January 20, 2022

Mina Khani is an author and active member of Iran's women's and civil rights movements. A new law ratified by Iran’s Parliament that's officially aimed at ...

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 ...

UN Experts Call on Iran to Repeal “Crippling” New Anti-Abortion Law

UN Experts Call on Iran to Repeal “Crippling” New Anti-Abortion Law

November 17, 2021

UN Human Rights experts have called on the Iranian government to repeal and new discriminatory law that severely restricts the already-limited exemptions to the country's Penal Code ban on abortion. Following is the UN's press release Iran: Repeal “crippling” new anti-abortion law – UN ...

The Life of an Iranian Child Bride: An Animation by Marjan Farsad

The Life of an Iranian Child Bride: An Animation by Marjan Farsad

August 30, 2021

By the age of eleven, “Raha” already had seven children. Married off to a man five times her age, she was in poor health when her situation was accidentally discovered in the Iranian city of Ilham by a charity that was later disbanded ...

Top UN Official: Human Rights Situation in Iran is of “Serious Concern”

Top UN Official: Human Rights Situation in Iran is of “Serious Concern”

June 23, 2021

Secretary-General Cites Impunity for Rights Violations and Increase Risk of Future Violations *Read the full UN Secretary-General report here. In the latest report on Iran by the UN Secretary-General, the world’s top diplomat stated that the rights situation in Iran “remains of serious concern” and that “impediments to the rule ...

For Iran’s Lawyers, Defending Dissidents Is Getting Dangerous (Commentary Published in World Politics Review)

For Iran’s Lawyers, Defending Dissidents Is Getting Dangerous (Commentary Published in World Politics Review)

May 18, 2021

Internationally renowned human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh is among at least five defense attorneys currently imprisoned in Iran for doing their jobs. This op-ed was published in World Politics Review Jasmin Ramsey Tuesday, May 18, ...

UN: Women and Girls in Iran Treated as Second Class Citizens, Reforms Urgently Needed

UN: Women and Girls in Iran Treated as Second Class Citizens, Reforms Urgently Needed

March 9, 2021

UN Press Release, GENEVA (8 March 2021) – Women and girls continue to be treated as second class citizens in Iran, a UN expert says in a report to the Human Rights Council, citing domestic violence, thousands of marriages of girls aged between 10 and 14 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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