Multiple Prisoners Showing Signs of Virus, No One Tested “Narges Mohammadi is being denied every basic right because she takes a stand” Imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi and other… ...
Rights Activist Will Serve Two More Years in Prison After Serving Five More New Cases Opened Against Daemi, Maryam Akbari Monfared, Leila Hosseinzadeh and other Prisoners Despite completing a five-year… ...
Letter Reveals New Details: 144 Bodies Secretly Held in Karaj Medical Examiner’s Office Alone June 29, 2020 — In an impassioned plea to top UN officials, the father of Pouya… ...
She Must Serve Five-year Sentence for Reporting on Peaceful Labor Rally Freelance reporter Sepideh Qoliyan, issued a five-year sentence for reporting on a peaceful rally by sugar mill workers for… ...
At least five defense lawyers are currently imprisoned in Iran for supporting human rights… ...
Conditions Harshened for 82-year-old Mehdi Karroubi After He Criticized Supreme Leader After more than nine years under extrajudicial house arrest, the health of Iran’s 82-year-old opposition leader, Mehdi Karroubi, is… ...
*Update: On November 9, 2020, Branch 28 of the Supreme Court rejected a petition by Kord-Afshari’s lawyer, Hosein Taj, to review the 24-year prison sentence against Saba Kord-Afshari for her… ...
The murder of George Floyd was not just the killing of one man, it was an assault on justice and the rule of law. It is one instance of many… ...
May 27, 2020 — A new report released today by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) documents the extraordinary state violence that was used against protesters in Iran… ...
…to prison in Amol, Mazandaran Province, on May 18, 2020, to begin serving a five-month prison sentence for protesting Iran’s downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane, the Center for Human… ...
Three Relatives of Iranian Dissidents Arbitrarily Prosecuted in One Month Amid a renewed crackdown on peaceful criticism of Iranian state policies, the son of imprisoned filmmaker and journalist Mohammad Nourizad… ...
April 17, 2020 – UN human rights experts today called on Iran to expand its temporary release of thousands of detainees to include prisoners of conscience and dual and foreign… ...
Jailed Attorney, Fellow Political Prisoners Hunger Strike for Freedom Amid COVID-19 Outbreak March 17, 2020 — At least three political activists in Tehran’s Evin Prison have joined prominent imprisoned human… ...
Members of civil society in Iran including a city councilman, soccer player, and journalists were detained or summoned for questioning after criticizing the Iranian government’s management of the country’s widening… ...
…suffering from serious human rights violations and the situation of those arrested during the November 2019 protests is a subject of particular concern, said a UN expert in his latest… ...
The Center for Human Rights in Iran received over 4,000 news media citations from international print, radio, TV, and online news media outlets between January 1, 2020 and December 31…. ...
Reza Khandan, a women’s rights activist and the husband of prominent imprisoned human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh, has called on Iranian authorities to release his wife and other prisoners to… ...
Hashem Khastar (left) and Mohammad Nourizad (right). Grave Concerns About the Spread of COVID-19 in Iranian Prisons Relatives of prisoners of conscience who were imprisoned in Iran after publicly calling… ...
…other prisons and implemented further security measures in Evin in preparation for more sudden influxes of detainees like those seen following recent crackdowns on street protests, sources informed the Center… ...
Tehran-Based Reporter: “They Want Us to Stop Writing” February 11, 2020 – The intelligence arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is summoning journalists, raiding their homes and confiscating their… ...
February 10, 2020 – Detainees held in Iran since the November 2019 street protests—including juveniles—are being beaten, forced to make self-incriminating statements and held in inhumane incarceration conditions, and their… ...
Dissidents who were sentenced to prison in Iran after calling for the resignation of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei are facing additional charges, an attorney representing some of them told the… ...
Iranian authorities are continuing to pressure the family of Borhan Mansournia, who died from a bullet wound in the back when state forces violently cracked down on the street protest… ...
Iranian government agents pressured at least one family member of Nasser Rezaie, a protester who died after being shot at a street demonstration in the city of Karaj on November… ...
University of Tehran personnel assisted a raid by state forces on a dormitory that resulted in at least eight students being arrested as they gathered for a protest, an eyewitness… ...
