On March 21, 2017, Kamran Ghaderi, an Iranian-born resident of Sweden, began walking from Stockholm toward Iran carrying the country’s pre-revolution national flag. In his Twitter bio he wrote that… ...
Karan Vafadari (left) with his son, Cyrus. Wife and Son of Karan Vafadari Fear For His Life After Suspicious Deaths in Prison March 1, 2018—The son of Iranian-American Karan Vafadari,… ...
A member of Iran’s Parliament has sharply condemned the country’s state-funded radio and TV broadcaster for airing a film that accused a prominent academic who died under suspicious circumstances in… ...
Iranian Judge Claims Iranian-British Citizen is Being Held Because of UK Debt to Iran An Iranian-British charity worker imprisoned in Iran since April 2016 has rejected an offer by the… ...
A Session of the UN’s Human Rights Council. Rights Violations Continue Under President Rouhani’s Watch February 22, 2018 — Iran’s deteriorating human rights record requires the UN Human Rights Council… ...
Tehran Prosecutor Claims Autopsy Conducted But Still No Medical Examiner’s Report Iran’s deputy parliamentary speaker has stated that, based on a video produced by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC),… ...
A third detainee, 63-year old Iranian-Canadian professor Kavous Seyed-Emami, has died in custody in Iran, barely 17 days after his arrest and while under interrogations… ...
The wife of a Swedish resident imprisoned in Tehran has revealed the way her husband, Ahmadreza Djalali, was coerced into making potentially incriminating statements before he was sentenced to death… ...
Mohammad Reza Hashemi-Nabi, a permanent resident of the UK, has been held in solitary confinement in Iran’s Evin Prison for more than a year without access to a lawyer, his… ...
“Evin Prison officials are using medicine as a weapon” US permanent resident Nizar Zakka is being denied medical attention in Evin Prison despite being told by his doctor that he… ...
Karan Vafadari: “I don’t think we will be justly treated unless there is greater and more effective international pressure.” Karan Vafadari Arrested After Obtaining Legal Order to… ...
Family Meets Bail for Wife, but Judge Still Refuses to Release Her The judge presiding over the case of imprisoned Iranian-American gallery owners Karan Vafadari and his wife Afarin Neyssari… ...
…for Karan Vafadari and 10 years for Afarin Nayssari. In a letter from Evin Prison obtained by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), Iranian-American dual national Karan Vafadari… ...
Two day after a former senior British politician expressed optimism after discussing the case of imprisoned Iranian-British dual national… ...
British-Iranian professor returns to UK after detention in Iran CNN-US, CNN.com International 26 December, 2018 statement said.\n\nOn Monday, the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran issued an open… ...
The wife of an Iranian-born Swedish resident sentenced to death in Iran on espionage charges has denied new allegations that her husband spied for the Israeli secret service, Mossad. “My… ...
A screenshot of a clip of Ahmadreza Djalali’s so-called “confession” on Iran’s state-run IRIB state TV. Iranian state TV aired a forced confession by Ahmadreza Djalali because he wrote in… ...
The Tehran prosecutor’s office has ignored a request by imprisoned Iranian-Austrian dual national Kamran Ghaderi for an urgent back operation, his wife told the Center for Human Rights in Iran… ...
Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence issued against Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali, who has been imprisoned in Tehran since April 2016 after being arrested by the Intelligence… ...
Iranian-British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held captive in Iran since April 2016. For 19 months, the UK government refused to… ...
Iran’s state-funded TV and radio broadcaster, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), has aired videos accusing two imprisoned foreign nationals of espionage… ...
In a letter addressing Iran’s ambassador to the UN, 175 Nobel laureates have called on the country’s authorities to release Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali, who says he has been… ...
In an overwhelming sign of international support for human rights in Iran, 83 countries approved a resolution by the UN Third Committee today criticizing the state of human rights in… ...
EU Parliamentary Delegation Going to Iran Should Use Its Leverage to Engage Iran on Human Rights November 14, 2017—European governments’ blithe disregard for mounting human rights violations in Iran ever… ...
Asma Jahangir, the special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In presenting her semi-annual 2017 report on Iran to the United Nations General… ...
