May 4, 2022 – The Iranian government’s threat to execute Swedish scientist Ahmadreza Djalali later this month is aimed at thwarting the trial in Sweden against Iranian official Hamid Nouri, who is ...
President Raisi Should Remain Sanctioned for His Crimes Against Humanity February 18, 2022 - In a joint statement released today, 10* human rights organizations, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), urged the governments negotiating ...
Jamshid Sharmahd (center) smiles for a family photo beside his wife (left) and daughter. Iranian authorities are blocking Jamshid Sharmahd, an Iranian-born German man who has been detained in ...
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 of a planned Europe-Iran Business Forum that was ...
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 during the unrest that gripped the country ...
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called for easing or suspension of "sectoral sanctions" against countries including Iran to allow their medical systems to fight the novel coronavirus COVID-19 and limit its global spread. Following is a reprint of the UN press release with ...
Victim Hamid Taheri's Relatives Forced to Sign "Pledge of Silence" Hospital authorities in the city of Islamshahr, Tehran Province, transferred the body of Hamid Taheri to state security forces without his family’s permission after he died from a ...
Foreign Policy Chief Urges Iran to Hold Perpetrators of Protest Deaths Accountable, Provide Detainees Due Process December 10, 2019 - The EU should lead calls for the UN to investigate Iranian state forces' use of lethal means to ...
Violence “Unacceptable,” Free Flow of Information Must Be Ensured The European Union’s External Action Committee, which manages the EU's diplomatic relations with other countries and conducts EU foreign and security policy for the 28-country bloc, released ...
US Sanctions and Iranian Mismanagement Preventing Critically Needed Aid April 4, 2019 –The US and EU should immediately take steps to ensure that Iran receives humanitarian aid to assist disaster relief efforts in the wake of devastating floods that ...
The diplomatic service and foreign and defence ministry of the EU, European Union External Action (EEAS), has condemned the conviction of prominent Iranian attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh and urged Iran to guarantee her and her husband ...
Twenty-six members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have urged Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to free eight conservationists who are currently being tried in the country's secretive revolutionary court system: We are concerned that the trial of ...
