Clashes among members of a predominantly peaceful minority faith in Iran and security forces have resulted in a discussion on social media among Iranians about the use of violence as… ...
Contrary to Iranian official’s claims that all the university students who were detained in connection with Iran’s December 2017 protests have been released, some remain in custody without access to… ...
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),… ...
Distraught Family Under Enormous Pressure to Bury Body Quickly and Not Speak Publicly About the Death February 12, 2018—The family of the Iranian-Canadian academic, Kavous Seyed-Emami, whose death in custody… ...
Some pollsters who were gauging views about Iran’s December 2017 protests have been arrested, according to Mohammad Aghasi, the head of the Iranian Students Polling Agency (ISPA). “It was difficult… ...
Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani, a member of the Gonabadi Dervish Sufi order, was expelled from Tehran’s Tarbiat Modares University on February 3, 2018, for refusing to formally pledge… ...
Twenty-five professors, lawyers and judges from around the world have called on the head of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights, Mohammad Javad Larijani, to address documented human rights violations… ...
Narges Hosseini, who was arrested for protesting Iran’s compulsory hijab, refused to appear in court to face charges punishable by up to 10 years, including “encouraging immorality or prostitution.”… ...
Iranian women protest their country’s hijab law by waving their headscarves in public. Several women protested against Iran’s compulsory hijab law in the streets of Tehran and Isfahan on January… ...
Forty Iranian lawmakers have written to President Hassan Rouhani and Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani urging them to immediately release student detainees who were arrested during the weeklong protests that hit… ...
A lawyer representing the families of two detainees who died in custody in Iran after being arrested during protests that erupted across the country in December 2017 is concerned about… ...
Ten members of a persecuted Sufi order in Iran were injured and three others arrested in the city of Kowar, Fars Province after police attacked their rally in support of… ...
It took Iranian President Hassan Rouhani nearly two weeks to lift the ban on the widely used Telegram messaging app, after it was blocked amid state-imposed internet disruption during the… ...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has condemned the country’s recent nationwide protests as “devilish fireworks” organized by the United States, Israel, regional Arab states and Iranian counter-revolutionaries. “Their intention was… ...
Malware is a computer program that runs spyware with the aim of collecting information or eavesdropping on the victim after the spyware is installed on a computer or mobile phone…. ...
CHRI’s research indicates that during Rouhani’s first term (2013-2017), cyberattacks on the social networks accounts of civil and political activists, journalists, academics and influential cultural figures have dramatically increased. CHRI… ...
…minority rights leaders, students and journalists have been routinely targeted for hacking attacks by Iran’s security and intelligence organizations, especially Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Such attacks have never been… ...
Relatives Sleeping Outside Evin Prison Demanding Answers The families of several members of a Muslim Sufi order in Iran known as the Gonabadi Dervishes are still seeking answers to basic… ...
…Iran’s Intelligence Ministry of dozens of university students during the country’s recent nationwide protests. “According to a list that was given to me, about 90 students have been arrested throughout… ...
Intelligence Ministry Pressures Families to Avoid Interviews More than 40 Iranian university students, mostly activists, were arrested between December 30, 2017, and January 4, 2018, according to credible information received… ...
“We will not go anywhere until we get some news about our kids.” The families of protesters detained during the anti-government protests that began in Iran on December 28, 2017,… ...
Four Sufi Gonabadi Dervishes Detained Without Charge A member of the reformist women’s faction in Iran’s Parliament has publicly enquired about the condition of university students who were arrested since… ...
For the first time since the mass protests of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has imposed tighter than usual restrictions on internet access to curb the distribution of images,… ...
January 2, 2018—The Iranian government and state security forces should immediately end their violent crackdown on the nationwide protests that have so far led to the deaths of at least… ...
At least 21 people have been killed and hundreds arrested since a wave of protests hit several Iranian cities on December 28, 2017. The Center for Human Rights in Iran… ...
