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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Internationally renowned human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh is among at least five defense attorneys currently imprisoned in Iran for doing their ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Two imprisoned student activists continue to be persecuted for peacefully protesting unjust policies and practices in Iran, including so-called "virginity tests." Charged with “assembly and collusion against national security” for peacefully participating in protests, ...
Child Marriages Rise Four-Fold as Parents Marry Off Their Children to Receive Loans Easily available loans provided by state-owned banks to cover marriage expenses are resulting in a huge surge in child marriages ...
Issued on Anniversary of Protests, Six-Year and One-Year Sentences May Be Warnings to Others 24-Year Prison Sentence Upheld for Peaceful Campaigner against Compulsory Hijab University of Tehran student Marjan Eshaghi has been slapped with ...
Sotoudeh and Three Other Activists Transferred Out of Evin’s Women’s Ward to Other Prisons As part of a new policy to isolate political prisoners by incarcerating them alongside common criminals at various prisons ...
Available for viewing within the U.S. at the Globe Docs Film Festival from October 1-12, 2020, "Nasrin" is a new feature documentary about one of the world’s most courageous human rights activists and political prisoners, Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh--and the women's rights movement she's helping lead. Narrated by Academy ...
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 ...
Nasrin, a new documentary scheduled for its world premiere on October 1, 2020, tells the important and fascinating story of Nasrin Sotoudeh, the imprisoned human rights lawyer who has endured ...
Husband Catches Glimpse as She is Wheeled for Tests: “She does not look well at all” Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer on Hunger Strike Since August 11 to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners September 20, 2020—The ...
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 ...
Imprisoned Human Rights Attorney Refuses Food to Demand Release of Prisoners Endangered by COVID-19 Husband: “Nasrin has become extremely weak” August 31, 2020—The health of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has become ...
*Update: On November 9, 2020, Branch 28 of the Supreme Court rejected a petition by Kord-Afshari’s lawyer, Hosein Taj, to review the 24-year prison sentence against Saba Kord-Afshari for her peaceful campaign against compulsory hijab. Based ...
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 ...
Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, Who Could Authorize Her Release, Has Been Unreachable Detained teenage Instagram celebrity Fatemeh Khishvand is currently on a ventilator at Sina Hospital in Tehran after contracting COVID-19 in state custody, ...
Stand with Healthcare Workers Battling COVID-19 March 18, 2020 -- The Center for Human Rights in Iran stands in solidarity with the people of Iran during this time of great national trauma and ...
Jailed Attorney, Fellow Political Prisoners Hunger Strike for Freedom Amid COVID-19 Outbreak March 17, 2020 -- At least three political activists in Tehran’s Evin Prison have joined prominent imprisoned human rights attorney ...
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 ...
Tehran-Based Reporter: “They Want Us to Stop Writing” February 11, 2020 – The intelligence arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is summoning journalists, raiding their homes and confiscating their electronic devices ...
January 21, 2020 - Since being jailed in the severely restrictive Ward-2A of Iran's Evin Prison, British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has struggled to obtain proper food and medication, and has been ...