Intelligence agencies in Iran are increasingly using state-funded entertainment productions to spread state propaganda and improve their image among the public, according to research by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi boasted about the ...
Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi Under Pressure to Make Forced “Confessions” Student Groups: Allegations Unfounded, State Building False Case Without Evidence Two honor students at the Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, who were both violently arrested by the ...
Letter Reveals New Details: 144 Bodies Secretly Held in Karaj Medical Examiner’s Office Alone June 29, 2020 — In an impassioned plea to top UN officials, the father of Pouya Bakhtiyari, who was one of hundreds ...
January 21, 2020 - Since being jailed in the severely restrictive Ward-2A of Iran's Evin Prison, British-Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert has struggled to obtain proper food and medication, and has been denied contact with the outside ...
University of Tehran student activist Saha Mortezaei’s sign reads, ...
Intelligence Ministry Bans Working for the British Council Without Legal Backing The family of Aras Amiri, a young Iranian woman who is serving a 10-year prison sentence in Iran because she worked for the British Council, has ...
Appeals Court Upholds Sentence against Shahnaz Akmali Shahnaz Akmali, the mother of a protester who was killed in a pro-democracy rally, must serve a year in prison, an Appeals Court in Iran has decided, for her attempts ...
After refusing to break his hunger strike, prisoner of conscience Hossein Sepanta was transferred to the Intelligence Ministry’s wing inside Adelabad Prison in Shiraz, Fars Province, on July 10, 2019, on orders of the facility’s director, the ...
A labor activist’s widely read Instagram post alleging he was tortured while in the custody of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry was never fully investigated but ...
Held Without Access to Lawyer, Bakhshi Beaten During 25-Day Detention January 4, 2018—The beating and torture of the labor activist Smaeil Bakhshi (also spelled Esmail Bakhshi), while he was in detention by agents ...
Teachers who were peacefully protesting a fellow colleague’s heavy prison sentence were met with tear gas by anti-riot units who made “several arrests” in the Iranian city of Isfahan on December 27, 2018, a trade unionist told ...
While searching Ali Ahmadi's house, agents of Iran's Intelligence Ministry ...
Vahid Sayyadi-Nasiri Was on Hunger Strike to Protest Denial of Counsel and Prison Conditions Growing Crisis as Political Prisoners Left with No Recourse but to Refuse Food December 12, 2018—The political prisoner Vahid ...
In an open letter published December 9, 2018, 121 Nobel Laureates have called on Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to ensure that ailing Iranian Swedish dual national Ahmadreza Djalali, a physician and scholar who specializes in disaster ...
Forty civil society organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) have signed a letter urging UN member states to support Canada's resolution on human rights in Iran that will be presented to the Third ...
Since January 2018, at least eight environmentalists have been detained in Iran even though the country's own Intelligence Ministry has admitted there's no evidence to support the politically motivated charges the detainees are facing. They include Sam Rajabi, Niloufar Bayani, ...
Mobile Billboard with Photos of Iran’s Political Prisoners to Circle UN Headquarters During Meetings September 19, 2018—As President Hassan Rouhani comes to NY to attend the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly, the Center for Human Rights ...
Abdolfattah Soltani poses for a family photo. His daughter, Homa (right), passed away on August 4, 2018. Soltani Granted Furlough to Mourn Daughter’s Death One of Iran’s most prominent human rights lawyers, ...
Relatives of Ramin Hossein Panahi, a Kurdish man on death row in Iran, have raised concerns that his chances of imminent execution have increased since several soldiers of the ...
Sixty-three student organizations from universities across Iran have issued a statement sharply criticizing President Hassan Rouhani for a crackdown led by his Intelligence Ministry on students who were arrested ...
Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh previously served three years in prison for her defense of dissidents, activists, journalists and minorities in Iran after being convicted of national security charges. Sotoudeh ...
Conservatives Increasingly Endorsing Twitter as Propaganda Front Six Iranian ministers and two members of Parliament (MPs) have sent a letter to President Hassan Rouhani calling on him to lift the state’s ban on Twitter. The call comes ...
At least 21 (15 dual nationals, five foreign nationals and one foreign permanent resident) were known to be held in Iran (imprisoned, under house arrest, or prohibited from leaving the country) as of July 2022 ...
Nishtiman Hossein Panahi (left) committed suicide on May 2 after being harassed by agents of Iran's Intelligence Ministry and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Young Woman Takes Her Own Life After Campaign ...
Agents of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry have arrested a London-based employee of the British Council, Aras Amiri, and are holding her without access to a lawyer on national security charges, the Center for Human ...
