Shirin Ebadi: UNICEF Headquarters Should Act Where Local Iran Office Has Failed June 11, 2025 —Nobel Peace Prize laureate and renowned human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi has written a powerful… ...
Families Pressured to Remain Silent to Obtain Release of Loved Ones Largest Labor Protests in Years Gain Momentum as Strike Enters Third Week June 4, 2025 — A nationwide truck… ...
Work of the Special Rapporteur and the Fact-Finding Mission Deemed Critical Given “Full-fledged Human Rights Crisis” in Iran March 18, 2025 – A broad coalition of international human rights organizations,… ...
Nobel Peace Laureate Urgently Needs Essential Medical Care for Serious Health Problems November 18, 2024 – In a joint letter released today, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI)… ...
Judges Violate Iran’s Own Laws Under Pressure from the Security Establishment Ruling Meant to Intimidate Public on Eve of Anniversary of Bloody November 2019 Protests November 14, 2024—Six protesters involved… ...
Death Penalty in Iran Used as a “Tool of Political Repression” August 27, 2024 – In a joint statement released today, the Center for Human Rights in Iran, along with… ...
August 19, 2024 — In a joint letter, the Center for Human Rights in Iran and 42 fellow human rights organizations and activists have voiced their support for women political… ...
76-Year-Old Mohammad Seifzadeh is the “Godfather” of Human Rights Lawyers in Iran Punished for Signing a Letter to the UN on Unlawful Executions in Iran August 14, 2024 – In… ...
33 Executed in Last 24 hours, All Were Marked by Severe Violations of International Law Global Community Must Forcefully Warn Iran to Stop These Unlawful Hangings August 7, 2024—The Islamic… ...
Joint Letter Highlights Raisi’s Atrocious Human Rights Record Dozens of Iranian human activists, including lawyers, doctors, journalists, academics, and a Nobel Peace Laureate, have signed an open letter urging the… ...
Mass Hunger Strike Launched by Women Prisoners of Conscience Spreading Quickly January 25, 2024 – The surge in executions in Iran has triggered a passionate call from Iranian civil society,… ...
In light of the escalating number of illegal executions in Iran, a group of leading Iranian human rights lawyers have penned a letter to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, urging… ...
A coalition of Iranian human and civil rights defenders, including prominent activists Shirin Ebadi, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Narges Mohammadi, and Atena, published a “Justice-Seeking Pact” on February 23, 2023. Following is… ...
Two Major UN Votes Signal World’s Revulsion at Islamic Republic’s Violence against Protesters December 14, 2022 – The vote today by the UN Economic and Social Council to remove the… ...
A group of prominent Iranian lawyers has called for international action amid nationwide protests that erupted in Iran on September 16, 2022, following the death in state custody of Mahsa… ...
Less than a month after the intelligence chief of the Iranian military’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was replaced, a crackdown on dissent is being ramped up in the country… ...
Treaty Encourages Hostage-Taking, Would Return Convicted Terrorist to Iran July 5, 2022 – More than 400 leading Iranian human rights activists, dissidents and family members of victims of Iranian state… ...
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… ...
Nasrin, a new documentary scheduled for its world premiere on October 1, 2020, tells the important and fascinating story of Nasrin Sotoudeh, the imprisoned human rights lawyer who has endured… ...
French Government “Condemns” Unjust Decision Against Fariba Adelkhah The five-year prison sentence of French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, held at Evin Prison since June 2019 on manufactured national security charges, has… ...
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…. ...
The Iranian government and judiciary are intensifying a nationwide crackdown on civil society and beyond to stifle any form of dissent, Karim Lahidji, a prominent Iranian human rights attorney now… ...
Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi was Iran’s first female judge before being forced to resign in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, when females were barred from being judges…. ...
Husband Publishes Sotoudeh’s Verdict Notes, Addressing Discrepancies Refusing to legitimize the unjust judicial process in Iran, in which defendants held on politically motivated charges are sentenced to long prison terms… ...
On the occasion of International Women’s Day, March 8, Iranian lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi shared her thoughts on the state of women’s rights in Iran in… ...
