Crippling Economic Hardship Enflames Iranian Protests
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… ...
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March 8, 2021
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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… ...
March 4, 2021
Relatives Visit Ethnic Arab Prisoners in Khuzestan Jail Only to Be Handed Corpses Minutes Later
“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… ...
March 1, 2021
Deaths Rising in Sistan and Baluchistan as Unrest Continues Amid Internet Shutdown
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… ...
February 28, 2021
Narges Mohammadi Video Message: Evin Prison Director Personally Assaulted Me
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… ...
February 22, 2021
Iran’s Political Prisoners Are Dying Due to Denial of Medical Care
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… ...
February 16, 2021
Critically Ill Political Prisoner Should be Freed, Receive Life-Saving Medical Care
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… ...
February 1, 2021
Dying of Hopelessness: Suicides on the Rise in Iran
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… ...
January 19, 2021
“Suffering” Iranian Retirees Joining Nationwide Protests Against Chronic State Failures
…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,… ...
December 17, 2020
New Directive Allows Iranian Judiciary to Control Lawyers Through Disciplinary Body
Paves Way for Arbitrary Discipline; Likely to Be Used against Human Rights Lawyers Further Blow to Iranian Legal Profession’s Independence In a new assault on the already diminished independence of… ...
December 14, 2020
Europe Says “No Business as Usual” with Iran After Hanging of Dissident Journalist
EU Countries Withdraw from Iran Business Forum in Protest Over Execution France Tweets Outrage over “Barbaric and Unacceptable” Execution of Rouhollah Zam December 14, 2020—Major European countries have pulled out… ...
December 2, 2020
Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Being Returned to Gharchak Prison
Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has already previously served three years in prison for her defense of dissidents, activists, journalists and minorities in Iran after being convicted of national… ...
November 13, 2020
Two Students Sentenced to Prison for Peaceful Protest During November 2019
Issued on Anniversary of Protests, Six-Year and One-Year Sentences May Be Warnings to Others 24-Year Prison Sentence Upheld for Peaceful Campaigner against Compulsory Hijab University of Tehran student Marjan Eshaghi… ...
November 7, 2020
Nasrin Sotoudeh Released on Temporary Leave from Prison
Human Rights Lawyer, Weakened from Lack of Proper Medical Care, Now Home in Tehran November 7, 2020—Imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was released on temporary furlough today from Gharchak… ...
October 27, 2020
UN: Iran Must Conduct Independent Inquiry into Violence against Protests in November 2019
“Nasrin Sotoudeh and all other individuals arbitrarily detained must be immediately released” The UN’s top expert on Iran, Javaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights… ...
October 20, 2020
Nasrin Sotoudeh Transferred to Notorious Gharchak Prison
Doctors Say Hospitalization Required, Instead Sotoudeh Moved to Iran’s Most Dangerous Prison Human Rights Lawyer’s Health in Serious Danger October 20, 2020 — Nasrin Sotoudeh, the imprisoned human rights attorney,… ...
October 13, 2020
Nasrin Sotoudeh: Grave Deterioration in Health, Exposed to COVID-19 at Hospital
Doctors: Her Return to Prison Was “A deliberate attempt to put her life in danger” Family’s Repeated Requests for Medical Furlough and Hospitalization Denied October 13, 2020 — New information… ...
October 7, 2020
UN Press Release: Citing COVID Risk, Bachelet Calls on Iran to Release Jailed Human Rights Defenders
Iran is “Using the criminal justice system as a tool to silence civil society” Farsi version Geneva (6 October 2020) – UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on… ...
October 1, 2020
Prisoner on Death Row Not Allowed to Attend Funeral of Grieving Father Who Committed Suicide
Father of Amirhossein Moradi Distraught Over His Son’s Unjust Death Sentence Iranian authorities have rejected requests by Amirhossein Moradi, who has been sentenced to death on a false murder charge,… ...
September 30, 2020
New Charges Thrown at Political Prisoners to Keep Them Behind Bars
Rushed Convictions Show Judiciary Willing to Do Bidding of Intelligence Forces State Responds to Growing Societal Discontent with Intensified Efforts to Silence All Dissent October 1, 2020—In a blatant move… ...
September 30, 2020
Showdown at Haft Tappeh Sugar Factory: Minor Win for Workers, Larger Abuses Left Unchecked
Court Annuls Privatization of Company but Unpaid Wages and Withheld Insurance Benefits Persist “We are going to witness a big wave of labor protests spreading from the south to other… ...
September 25, 2020
Top UN Experts Demand Immediate Release of Nasrin Sotoudeh
UN Calls Her Return to Prison “Unfathomable” and “State Retaliation for Her Tireless Work Defending Human Rights” Sixteen of the UN’s top experts released a statement today demanding that Iran… ...
September 22, 2020
Narges Mohammadi’s Letter from Prison: “The lives of people on death row are in danger”
“The regime…knows no legal, logical or religious bounds in denying the rights of dissidents” Prominent human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, imprisoned in Iran since 2015 for her peaceful defense of… ...
September 22, 2020
Danger of Imminent Execution of Kurdish Political Prisoner, Lawyer Says
Supreme Court Refuses to Review Death Sentence Despite Lack of Evidence of Guilt Kurdish political prisoner Heydar Ghorbani is in danger of imminent execution as Iran’s highest court has refused… ...
September 12, 2020
Execution of Navid Afkari: “Iran’s Judiciary is a Tool of Political Repression and Violence and a Threat to the People”
Champion Wrestler Executed despite Evidence of Torture and Innocence September 12, 2020—The execution of Navid Afkari, the 27-year-old champion wrestler, by hanging at sunrise today in the southern Iranian city… ...