Nasrin Sotoudeh Sends Heart-Breaking Apology to Son For Missing First Day of School
Detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has written a letter to ...
Issues
Families of Iran’s Detained Environmentalists Urge Supreme Leader to Release Their Loved Ones
The families of environmentalists who have been detained for nearly eight months in Iran ...
Iran Should Fulfill Its UN Commitments and Recognize Sign Language
September 25, 2018—On the occasion of the International Day of Sign Languages and International Week of the ...
Activists Call on UNGA Attendees to Hold Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani Accountable
With President Hassan Rouhani in New York attending the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Center for Human Rights in Iran has urged UNGA attendees to directly address the worsening human rights situation in Iran. Diplomats should raise the ...
Rouhani Should Be Called to Account for Human Rights Abuses in Iran at UN Gathering
Mobile Billboard with Photos of Iran’s Political Prisoners to Circle UN Headquarters During Meetings September 19, 2018—As President Hassan Rouhani comes to ...
Satirist Keyomars Marzban Arrested by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Held Incommunicado, No Access to Lawyer
Keyomars Marzban, a 26-year-old satirist, has been held incommunicado in Tehran's Evin Prison ...
In Just Six Months, Iranian Universities Expelled 50 Baha’i Students For Their Religious Beliefs
Fifty Baha’i students have been expelled from Iranian universities in the current Iranian year (beginning ...
18 Sufis on Strike in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary Issue Three Demands
Eighteen Sufi dervishes of the Gonabadi Order are on hunger strike in Iran’s ...
Secretary General: Iran Engages UN But Intensifies Crackdown on Freedom of Assembly and Speech
Mohammad Javad Larijani, the secretary general of the Iranian judiciary's High ...
Nasrin Sotoudeh Sacrifices Family Visits To Protest Prosecutor’s Demand She Wear Full Hijab
Detained human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has given up her family visitation ...
Iranian Activist Hengameh Shahidi Refuses to Hire New Lawyer Against Judge’s Orders
Detained Iranian political activist and journalist Hengameh Shahidi has ...
Activists Arrested After Mass Strike in Iran’s Kurdistan Province Against “Revenge” Executions
After a mass strike by Kurdish merchants in western Iran on September 12, 2018, ...
Families Supporting Children With Disabilities Struggle to Obtain Supplies in Iran’s Troubled Economy
The mothers of two children with spinal disabilities in Tehran Province told the Center for Human ...
Let My Daughter See Her Sick Father, Pleads Narges Mohammadi’s Mother
The mother of imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has urged Tehran Prosecutor Abbas ...
From Evin Prison, Attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh Condemns Iran’s Execution of Three Kurdish Prisoners
In a letter from Iran’s Evin Prison, prominent human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh...
Three Detained Women’s Rights Activists Should be Immediately Released
No Information on Charges or Where Hoda Amid, Najmeh Vahedi or Rezvaneh Mohammadi are Being Held, Families Denied Contact September 11, 2018—The three women’s rights activists arrested by Iran’s security forces since September ...
Iran’s Execution of Three Kurdish Prisoners is Unlawful and Unjust
All Three Cases Rife with Denial of Due Process and Evidence of Torture and Forced Confessions ...
Welfare Reps Presence Required at Job Interviews for People with Disabilities
New Requirement Meant to Address Employment Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities In response ...
Detained Sufis Kept in Solitary and Dangerous Wards for Refusing to “Express Remorse” for Peaceful Prison Protests
A number of detained Sufi dervishes of the Gonabadi Order have been kept in solitary confinement or transferred ...
Iran’s Assault on Legal Profession Intensifies with Three More Attorneys Arrested
Seven Lawyers Now Behind Bars with More Summoned or Banned from Work *On September 6, after publication of ...
Execution of Kurdish Death-Row Prisoner More Likely, Prison Officer Says
Fears for Ramin Hossein Panahi Grow Despite Torture and Due Process Violation Concerns The execution of ...
Women Activists Arrested for Trying to Raise Awareness of Women’s Rights in Marriage and Divorce
Women’s rights activists Hoda Amid and Najmeh Vahedi were arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard ...
Detained Civil Rights Activist Refusing to Break Hunger Strike
Farhad Meysami Thin and Pale after More than a Month on Hunger Strike ...
Husband of Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer, Arrested for Speaking Out, Must Be Released Immediately
State Harassment, Arrest of Family Members to Silence Dissent Intensifies in Iran September 4, 2018—Reza Khandan, ...
Tehran Penitentiary Guards Launch “Brutal” Attack on Imprisoned Sufi Muslims
Guards in Iran’s Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) attacked and ...