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  • Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested
  • Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners
  • Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
  • Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers
  • ‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist

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    • Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested
      Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested
      June 4, 2025
    • Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners
      Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners
      May 27, 2025
    • Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
      Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
      May 20, 2025
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    Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested

    Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested

    June 4, 2025

    Families Pressured to Remain Silent to Obtain Release of Loved Ones Largest Labor Protests in Years Gain Momentum as Strike Enters Third Week June 4, 2025 — A nationwide truck drivers' strike in ...

    Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners

    Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners

    May 27, 2025

    Systematic Denial of Medical Care in Iran: A Slow and Silent Execution May 27, 2025 — From Evin Prison, woman political prisoner and international law scholar Mahvash (Sayeh) Seydal has issued ...

    Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences

    Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences

    May 20, 2025

    At Least 19 Writers and Poets Targeted in 2025, One Sentenced to Death “Lawyers working on such cases face threats, stigmatization, fabricated charges, arrest and disbarment” May 20, 2025 — An intensifying campaign of ...

    Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers

    Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers

    May 14, 2025

    New CHRI Fact Sheet Exposes Deepening Legal Crisis for Iran’s Embattled Lawyers Vanishing Defenders: Fewer Than 12 Lawyers Left to Represent Thousands in Iran’s Courts May 14, 2025—Iran is one of the most perilous ...

    ‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist

    ‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist

    May 5, 2025

    May 5, 2025 — In a letter obtained by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), Issa Ebrahimzadeh, a Kurdish farmer and labor rights activist who is currently on ...

    Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions

    Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions

    April 30, 2025

    19 Labor Activists Still Imprisoned, One Woman at Risk of Execution Over 2000 Workers Dead in Last 12 Months Due to Unsafe Working Conditions April 30, 2025 – On this International Labor Day, the ...

    Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People

    Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People

    April 24, 2025

    This article was originally published on The Hill. April 24, 2025 By Michael Eisner, the general counsel of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, and Saeid Dehghan, ...

    Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency

    Iran’s Mass Executions of Drug Offenders Are a Human Rights Emergency

    April 16, 2025

    Over 100 Executed in Just Three Months for Drug Offences  Former Prisoner and Lawyers Reveal Blatantly Unlawful Judicial Proceedings April 16, 2025 — Hundreds of men and women are being unlawfully executed in ...

    EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals

    EU Sanctions Iranian Judicial Officials Over Abductions of European Nationals

    April 14, 2025

    Collective Action Is Only Way to Address Iran’s Hostage Taking Conditions of Imprisoned Dual and Foreign Nationals: “Comparable to torture under international law” April 14, 2025—The Center for Human ...

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    Women’s Uprising in Iran

    On November 17, 2022, Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), spoke at a panel discussion hosted by the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting at Stonybrook University's School of Communication and Journalism on the people's uprising in Iran following the believed killing in state

    List of Attorneys Imprisoned in Iran for Defending Human Rights (Updated)

    At least five defense lawyers are currently imprisoned in Iran for supporting human rights

    Who Are the Dual and Foreign Nationals Imprisoned in Iran? (Updated)

    At least 21 (15 dual nationals, five foreign nationals and one foreign permanent resident) were known to be held in Iran (imprisoned, under house arrest, or prohibited from leaving the country) as of July 2022

    Center for Human Rights in Iran – Factsheets

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    These Fact Sheets highlight key information on a range of important human rights issues in a concise, accessible format for researchers, journalists and policymakers

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