Our team at the Center for Human Rights in Iran is in daily contact with Iranians throughout the country. In this regularly updated post, we publish what we are hearing from Iranians from all walks of life. ...
Mission Calls on States to Prosecute Responsible Officials Under Universal Jurisdiction Crimes Against Humanity: State Atrocities in Iran Revealed in First Report of UN ...
Peaceful Protesters Subjected to Excessive Force, Torture, Rape, and Arbitrary Executions Call to Action: UN Human Rights Council Members Urged to Extend Fact-Finding Mission and Special Rapporteur Mandates March 8, 2024 – Grave human rights violations perpetrated by the government of ...
Toomaj Salehi Re-Arrested After Publicly Disclosing Plans to Sue State Requires Medical Treatment for Injuries Sustained in Prison December 5, 2023 – The arbitrary re-arrest ...
Niloufar Hamedi Gets 13 Years Behind Bars and Elahe Mohammadi 12 Years Iranian Government Moves to Crush “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement On All ...
October 11, 2023 – Business owners in Iran are facing severe consequences, including loss of livelihoods and restricted access to vital services ...
Signatories, Including Wounded Protesters, Urge Investigation by UN’s Fact-Finding Mission and Support by International Medical Organizations October 9, 2023 — A group of ...
At least 26 Professors Punished, Students Face Heightened Restrictions and Repression September 13, 2023 – One year after the inception of Iran's "Woman, ...
More State Violence Feared as Anniversary of “Woman Life Freedom” Uprising Nears Intentional Killing of Unarmed Civilians Amounts to Crimes Against Humanity September 5, 2023 – A new report just released by the Center for Human Rights in Iran ...
Another Political Prisoner’s Death Sparks Outrage Weeks Before Anniversary of Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” Uprising Citing Relative, Activist Says Javad Roohi was “Killed” September ...
Rights and Revolt: Three Lawyers Analyze the Legal Terrain of Iran's "Women Life Freedom" Movement In anticipation of the anniversary of Iran's transformative "Women, Life, Freedom" movement, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...
Young Men Are Hanged without Due Process or Fair Trials August 2, 2023 – Politically motivated executions are increasing dramatically in Iran, with at least 17 mostly young men hung in blatantly unlawful prosecutions over the last 10 months. The ...
Denied Access to Counsel and Held in Prolonged Solitary, Health Deteriorating A family of three and a friend of the family jailed in ...
Police Kill Cousin at Gravesite of Nine-Year-Old Kian Pirfalak Thirty Relatives of Slain Street Protesters, Mostly Mothers, Detained June 12, ...
University Officials Are Committing Major Rights Violations, Say Students At Least 720 Students Arrested Since Protests Began in September 2022 June 1, 2023 – ...
Prosecution of Three Young Men Relied on Torture, Forced “Confessions” Defendant: "They kept beating me to make me tell their version of their crime on camera" *Editor's Note: Saeed Yaghoubi, Saleh Mirhashemi, and Majid Kazemi were hanged on May ...
Sources Close to Toomaj Urge International Community to Demand His Release Before Trial Begins Imprisoned Unjustly Since October 2022, in Urgent Need of Medical Care April 6, 2023 – The international community, including music and arts institutions as well ...
More than a month has passed since the Iranian government issued a “pardon” for an unverified number of prisoners and detainees following the arrests of tens of thousands of people across the country amid anti-state protests ...
Over 1,000 Students, Mostly Girls, Poisoned by Gas in Iran Since November 2022 March 6, 2023 – Twenty prominent human rights lawyers from Iran today published a letter urgently calling for an independent, joint committee—comprised of experts from the ...
Protesters: “We Aren’t Afraid of the Darkness” In their violent drive to crush the anti-state protests that have roiled Iran over the last five months, Islamic Republic security forces have shot scores of young protesters directly in the eyes, ...
A new petition launched by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) calls on European Union (EU) countries to support the women and girls of Iran, who are facing severe and violent repression, by summoning Iranian ambassadors in unison on International Women’s Day ...
Global Medical Community Must Speak Out Against Severe Violation of International Law February 10, 2023 — An increasing number of doctors and medical workers continue to be arrested, detained, tortured and killed by Islamic Republic forces for treating wounded protesters, in ...
Previous Pardons Have Not Been Followed by Actual Prisoner Releases Detained Protesters Assumed Guilty, Must “Apologize” First February 8, 2023 - The announced pardons ...
Recommendations Lay Out Tangible Actions Governments Can Take to Address Violent Repression February 7, 2023 – More than four months into the Islamic ...
Imposing Costs on the Islamic Republic for Its Human Rights Atrocities View a PDF version of this briefing here. View ...
