Joint Letter: 40+ Iran Rights Groups Call for Independent Investigation into Violence Against Women Political Prisoners
August 19, 2024 — In a joint letter, the Center for Human Rights in Iran and 42 fellow human rights organizations ...
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December 8, 2023
Imprisoned Nobel Peace Laureate Narges Mohammadi Needs Global Demands for Release
“I will make my voice louder for the world to hear,” says Mohammadi Suffering from Serious Health Issues, Authorities Ban Phone Calls, Visitations December 8, 2023 – Governments worldwide, UN leaders, and human rights organizations should ...
November 17, 2023
Peaceful Protesters’ Plight in Iran: Abductions and Forced Confessions
November 17, 2023 – An arbitrarily detained woman, facing unjust imprisonment in Iran, has provided a detailed account of her violent abduction amid mass ...
November 13, 2023
Jailed in Iran, Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi Resists Summons to Face More Charges
Imprisoned for Peaceful Advocacy, Global Leaders Must Demand Her Immediate Release November 13, 2023 – Imprisoned Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi faces new charges that ...
November 16, 2022
Beleaguered Yet Defiant, Iranian Artists Persecuted for Supporting Anti-State Protests
Actresses Appear Without State-Mandated Headscarves as 100+ Film Industry Workers Face Unemployment, Prosecution Almost anywhere else, it wouldn’t have been a ...
October 15, 2022
Breaking: Iran’s Enflamed Evin Prison Provokes Extreme Concerns
Defenseless Prisoners Barricaded Inside Embattled Prison Editor's update on Oct. 15, 7:01pm EST: A source in Tehran told CHRI that people were protesting near Evin Prison ...
September 7, 2022
Political Prisoner Behnam Mousivand’s Life is in Danger
Authorities in Iran Intentionally Deny Critical Medical Attention to Political Prisoners September 7, 2022 – A political prisoner’s precarious health situation is ...
August 12, 2022
More Prisoner Deaths Feared in Iran’s COVID-Infested Jails
Authorities Deny Prisoners Medical Treatment and Safety Measures Despite a renewed wave of COVID-19 infections in Iranian prisons, a growing number of infected political prisoners have been denied proper treatment, raising fears of more unnecessary deaths of prisoners ...
August 5, 2022
Gharchak Prison in Iran: A Cauldron of Abuse and Violations
Longstanding, Severe Violations of International Standards for Prisoners International Community Should Demand Closure of Facility For more than a decade, the inmates incarcerated at Iran’s Gharchak Prison for women have been desperately protesting inhumane, unsafe and unlawful conditions at the ...
April 27, 2022
Interview: Atena Daemi was Jailed in Iran for Advocating Women’s Rights. Now She’s Free and Refusing to be Silent
When Atena Daemi was growing up in Iran and attending school in a religious-conservative neighborhood in south Tehran, she noticed the many ways in which women were treated differently than men. Girls had to cover almost every ...
March 10, 2022
Plea to UN to Demand Freedom for Gravely Ill Sepideh Qoliyan
Fears Mount for Young Activist Who is Being Denied Crucial Medical Treatment March 10, 2022 – Two months after two political prisoners ...
January 24, 2022
Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi Sentenced to Another Eight Years in Prison
Situation of Political Prisoners Worsens as Iranian Government’s Assault on Peaceful Dissent Intensifies Activists, Lawyers, Dissidents being Kept Behind Bars with Continuous New Convictions ...
January 11, 2022
Imprisoned Journalist Keyvan Samimi is Being Led to His Death
The life of veteran journalist and political activist Keyvan Samimi is in danger as he continues to be unlawfully kept behind bars in Tehran’s Evin Prison despite state officials’ recommendations that he be released to receive treatment for serious health problems ...
August 27, 2021
Hacked Iranian Prison Footage Provides Limited Glimpse of Right of Abuses
Hacked footage from security cameras in Iran’s Evin Prison and the publication of some of the prison’s documents published online by a group ...
August 26, 2021
Supreme Court Refusal to Review 25-year Sentence for Afkari Brother is Travesty of Justice
Investigation Marked by Torture, Witness Tampering and Contradictions August 26, 2021—The refusal by Iran’s Supreme Court to allow a judicial review of the ...
May 4, 2021
UN to Iran: Grave Concerns for Jailed Dissident Mohammad Nourizad
Mohammad Nourizad appears with a bloody face after protesting outside the home of ...
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 ...
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 ...
February 11, 2021
Letter from Iran: “Political Prisoners Have Nowhere to Turn for Safety and Support”
The married couple Arash Sadeghi and Golrokh Iraee Ebrahimi are imprisoned in Iran for engaging in peaceful civil rights activism. In a letter from Rajaee Shahr Prison in the Iranian city of Karaj, political prisoner ...
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 ...
November 25, 2020
Concern Grows Over German-Iranian Women Held in Solitary at Evin Prison
Authorities Refuse to Give Any Information Nearly Six Weeks After Her Arrest Except for one short phone call, 66-year-old German-Iranian dual national Nahid ...
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 ...
October 23, 2020
Iran Moving Women Political Prisoners to Jails with “Common Criminals”
Sotoudeh and Three Other Activists Transferred Out of Evin’s Women’s Ward to Other Prisons As part of a new policy to isolate political prisoners ...
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 ...
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 ...