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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Female Activists Imprisoned for Attending Protests, Refusing “Virginity Test”

Female Activists Imprisoned for Attending Protests, Refusing “Virginity Test”

February 11, 2021

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, ...

Easy State Loans Prompting Surge in Child Marriages in Iran

Easy State Loans Prompting Surge in Child Marriages in Iran

December 1, 2020

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 ...

Two Students Sentenced to Prison for Peaceful Protest During November 2019

Two Students Sentenced to Prison for Peaceful Protest During November 2019

November 13, 2020

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 ...

Iran Moving Women Political Prisoners to Jails with “Common Criminals”

Iran Moving Women Political Prisoners to Jails with “Common Criminals”

October 23, 2020

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 ...

“We Must Not be Silent” Watch the New “Nasrin” Documentary

“We Must Not be Silent” Watch the New “Nasrin” Documentary

October 6, 2020

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 ...

New Charges Thrown at Political Prisoners to Keep Them Behind Bars

New Charges Thrown at Political Prisoners to Keep Them Behind Bars

September 30, 2020

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 ...

A Conversation with the Director and Producers of the New Documentary, “Nasrin”

A Conversation with the Director and Producers of the New Documentary, “Nasrin”

September 30, 2020

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 ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh in Hospital, Condition Deteriorating, Family Denied Access and Information

Nasrin Sotoudeh in Hospital, Condition Deteriorating, Family Denied Access and Information

September 20, 2020

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 ...

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 ...

Critical Deterioration in Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Health as Hunger Strike Hits Three-Week Mark

Critical Deterioration in Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Health as Hunger Strike Hits Three-Week Mark

August 31, 2020

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 ...

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