State Now Issues and Revokes Law Licenses, Crushing Independence of Legal Profession Due Process and Fair Trial Rights Dealt Further Blow by New Legislation July 12, 2021—In a sweeping grab… ...
Judicial System To Be Used To Further Suppress Dissent July 6, 2021—The appointment of Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei, a major human rights violator, as the Islamic Republic’s new judiciary chief is… ...
Draft Bill Criminalizes Filming of “Crime Scenes” to Prevent Spread of Images of State Violence On June 8, 2021, Iran’s Parliament passed the first draft of a bill that, if… ...
Incoming President Raisi’s Record of Violence against Protesters Increases Concerns June 29, 2021—The continuation of strikes in Iran’s critical oil and petrochemical facilities—not seen on this scale for more than… ...
Significant Shift from Protest Rallies to Work Stoppages For the past week workers at refineries, petrochemical plants and power stations in Iran have been on a national strike, demanding payment… ...
Ebrahim Raisi is Guilty of Gross Human Rights Violations June 19, 2021—As Ebrahim Raisi ascends to the presidency in Iran, after a sham election in which almost all other candidates… ...
Narges Mohammadi Attacked and Threatened Twice in Past Week by State Agents Iran Should Stop Assaulting, Threatening Peaceful Activists June 17, 2021 – Iranian authorities should stop physically assaulting, harassing… ...
Ghost of Navid Afkari Haunts Judiciary Chief’s Election Bid June 15, 2021 – One week before Iranian Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi runs virtually uncontested for president, the family of Navid… ...
Judiciary Chief’s Presidential Bid Reignites Calls for Accountability June 3, 2021 – Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi should be investigated for crimes against humanity, the Center for Human Rights in… ...
Protests by hard-hit farmers over Iran’s worsening water crisis are being repressed by state security forces as officials increasingly describe the protests as a “national security” issue. Environmental scientist Kaveh… ...
…violence?” As high school final exams approach in Iran, students nationwide have been protesting the Education Ministry’s decision to test students at physical locations for ninth and twelfth graders, despite… ...
The Center for Human Rights in Iran, along with eight other organizations, today sent a letter to the Biden-Harris administration calling for human rights to be advanced parallel to other… ...
*This op-ed was published by Foreign Policy Unclear guidelines and fear of sanctions are stopping tech companies from selling products that would help Iranians access the internet freely and evade… ...
May 5, 2021 – Eight months after an Iranian wrestler was unjustly executed in Shiraz, his brothers Vahid and Habib Afkari remain in prolonged solitary confinement in the same prison… ...
Mohammad Nourizad appears with a bloody face after protesting outside the home of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khaminei, October 14, 2014 (photo credit: courtesy/Abazar Noorizad) UN Press Release GENEVA (4… ...
Unpaid Wages and Benefits, Unfair Wages Trigger Increasingly Organized Strikes Labor Activists Jailed Under Trumped-Up Charges April 30, 2021 – As International Labor Day approaches, workers across Iran are facing… ...
Protests in Iran over high inflation and unpaid wages are spreading in Iran as the working class and retirees struggle to make ends meet. The largest organized rallies were held… ...
The Center for Human Rights in Iran received over 1,100 English-language online news media citations in 2021. Following is an incomplete listing of those citations. *For media inquiries, please contact… ...
“They Learned of the Executions When the Bodies of Their Children Were Delivered to Them” Ethnically Arab political prisoners Jasem Heidary, Hossein Silawi, Ali Khasraji, and Nasser Khafajian (Khafaji) were… ...
At Least 23 Killed by State Forces Since Unrest Began in Late February March 1, 2021—The killing by state security forces of some two dozen protesters in Iran’s Sistan and… ...
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… ...
Death of Behnam Mahjoubi Will Be Followed by Others without Urgent Action February 22, 2021—The death of prisoner of conscience Behnam Mahjoubi, who died on February 21, 2021, after untreated… ...
Iran Must End Systematic Denial of Healthcare in Prisons February 16, 2021 – Prisoner of conscience Behnam Mahjoubi could die if he is not provided the immediate and comprehensive medical… ...
Suicides increased in Iran in 2020, according to state medical data. Blue-collar workers as well as students who’ve been disproportionately impacted by the country’s struggling economy dominated media reports of… ...
…19 cities including–Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, and Yazd–to protest the government’s lack of response to their demands. The protesters, who receive retirement checks from the State Welfare Organization’s (SWO) pension fund,… ...
