UN: Iran Must Quash Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Convictions and Ensure Her Permanent Release
Top Experts Say Her COVID-19 Diagnosis “Shows the real risks for those in detention in Iran” Top UN experts* released a statement today, ...
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April 8, 2020
Persian Translation: WHO Guidance on Protecting Prison Populations from COVID-19
April 8, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran today published its unofficial Persian translation of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ...
March 11, 2020
Political Prisoners Remain in “Limbo,” Untested for Coronavirus Despite Symptoms
Peaceful Activists in Mashhad’s Vakilabad Prison Left Vulnerable to Infection One week after judicial officials announced they had released tens of thousands of prisoners to ...
March 5, 2020
Families Urge Judiciary Chief to Include Jailed Conservationists In Mass Prisoner Release
56,000 Temporarily Freed from Iran's Overcrowded Prisons Amid Coronavirus Outbreak The families of eight conservationists imprisoned in Iran on trumped-up charges have called on Iranian Judiciary ...
October 24, 2019
Another Mother Denied Visits With Children Under Evin Prison’s New Director
Following additional restrictions imposed on political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin Prison by its newly appointed Director Gholamreza Ziaei, Maryam Akbari-Monfared’s ...
February 12, 2019
Unable to Move His Arm, Arash Sadeghi Denied Hospitalization for Infected Biopsy Wound
“What’s certain is that he needs to be urgently hospitalized” Arash Sadeghi, a political prisoner in Iran, has lost ...
December 20, 2018
Open Letter From Evin Prison: Narges Mohammadi Calls on Tehran Prosecutor to Stop Denying Her Medical Treatment
Iranian political prisoner Narges Mohammadi has written an open letter calling on Jafari Dowlatabadi, the prosecutor ...
October 26, 2018
Iran’s Judiciary Should Release Ailing Prisoner Saeed Malekpour on Medical Grounds
Imprisoned in Iran's Evin Prison since 2008, Canadian permanent resident Saeed Malekpour was hospitalized for a "heart ...
October 9, 2018
“Oppression Stops Life:” Narges Mohammadi Recounts Returning to An Empty Home
For the first time in more than three years, Iranian political prisoner Narges Mohammadi was ...
September 12, 2018
Let My Daughter See Her Sick Father, Pleads Narges Mohammadi’s Mother
The mother of imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has urged Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi to allow the ...
August 28, 2018
Iranian American Prisoner in Iran, Baquer Namazi, On Medical Leave
Lawyers File Appeals With Iran’s Supreme Court and the UN Baquer Namazi, an Iranian American dual national who was imprisoned ...
August 23, 2018
Too Little, Too Late: Iran Should Permanently Release Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
August 23, 2018 - The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges the Iranian Judiciary to turn the three-day furlough it has granted to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe into permanent and unconditional release. "Three days of ...
July 21, 2018
Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi’s Sister Banned From Travel as State Continues to Harass Her Family
From her cell in an infamous Iranian prison, imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has condemned Iran’s judiciary ...
March 10, 2018
Father and Son Political Prisoners Kept on Death Row in Iran For Eight Years Despite Deteriorating Health
Two prisoners of conscience who have been behind bars for nearly a decade in Tehran’s ...
January 5, 2018
Imprisoned Baha’i Teacher Told to Repent in Exchange for Furlough
The authorities of Evin Prison have told imprisoned Baha’i educator ...
September 28, 2017
Q&A: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Husband Speaks Out About Dual National’s Imprisonment in Iran
The husband of imprisoned Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe speaks to CHRI about her case and their lives since she was arrested by the Revolutionary Guards in April 2016. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe never imagined she would ...
April 7, 2017
Music Producers Returned to Evin Prison After Request for Extended Medical Furlough Denied
Music producers Mehdi and Hossein Rajabian returned to Evin Prison in Tehran on April 4, 2017 after their request for ...
April 1, 2015
Cartoon (109): Political Prisoners & Families Celebrate Nowruz, Not!
Dozens of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience were deprived of furlough, ordinarily extended to prisoners in Iran, during the Iranian New Year, Nowruz (March 20, April 1). More than ...
March 27, 2015
Imprisoned Journalist Denied Furlough, Remains with Hardened Criminals
Saeed Matinpour Despite support from the Zanjan Province Prosecutor and prison officials, and repeated requests by family members, journalist Saeed Matinpour's furlough for the Iranian New Year was ...