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Tag : arrests

January 18, 2020

“Feverish Climate” at Tehran University After Students Arrested in Dormitory Raid

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 told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...

November 19, 2019

Lethal and Excessive Force Against Protestors in Iran Must Cease, News Blackout Must End

November 19, 2019—The authorities’ use of excessive force against protestors in Iran, which has included the use of live ammunition and has resulted in dozens of deaths, is a blatant and unjustifiable violation of international law and must cease, the Center for Human Rights in ...

June 7, 2018

Third Woman Sentenced to Prison in Iran For Removing Hijab Slapped With More Charges

Civil rights activist Shima Babaei: “They said the hijab is the law and I must respect it. I told them it’s a bad law and I’m protesting against ...

January 18, 2018

Detained Iranian Protesters Told to Admit Being Drug Addicts to Speed Up Release

Vahid Heydari (right) and Sina Ghanbari were killed in ...

January 12, 2018

Iran Unblocks Widely Used Messaging App Telegram After Two Weeks

 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 ...

January 5, 2018

Reformist MP Enquires About Students Detained in Iranian Protests

Four Sufi Gonabadi Dervishes Detained Without Charge A member of the reformist women’s faction in Iran’s Parliament has publicly enquired about ...

January 4, 2018

Six Prominent Lawyers Call for Prosecution of Iranian Officials Who Incited Violence Against Protesters

Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi and five other prominent Iranian human rights lawyers have called for the prosecution of state officials who have encouraged violence against protesters in the ...

January 3, 2018

22 Killed and Hundreds Arrested as Iran’s Supreme Leader Blames Protests on Foreign “Enemies”

As details emerged about the number of casualties and arrests that occurred during the first six days of the ...

January 2, 2018

Iran’s Government Must End the Violence and Allow Peaceful Protest

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 ...

January 2, 2018

Casualties and Arrests Mount As Iranian Protests Continue

At least 21 people have been killed and hundreds arrested since a wave of protests hit several Iranian cities on December ...

April 13, 2017

Social Media Emerges as Major Battlefront in Iran’s May 2017 Elections

A month before Iranians head to the polls for the presidential and council elections, a heated exchange between the judiciary and ...

April 3, 2017

Hunger-Striking Political Activist Detained Without Charge Writes Will in Evin Prison

After 24 days on hunger strike in Evin Prison in Tehran, reformist political activist Hengameh Shahidi, detained without charge and denied legal ...

March 30, 2017

Rouhani Orders Investigation Into “Suspicious” Pre-Election Arrests After MPs Ask Him for Explanation

A little over a week after reformist members of Parliament asked Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to attend to a spate of arrests ahead of the ...

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