February 26, 2018

15-Year-Old Illegally Held in Iranian Adult Prison After Pulling Down National Flag

Unnamed Boy Has Appealed His 15-Year Prison Sentence A 15-year-old boy is illegally being held in an Iranian prison for adults, the Center for Human Rights ...

February 19, 2018

Iran’s Suppression of December 2017 Unrest Marked by Brutal Violations of Law

The state crackdown that crushed the protests that erupted across Iran in late December 2017 was marked by violence and brutal disregard for the law. This CHRI briefing, based on interviews with released detainees, the families and attorneys of detainees, and journalists and human rights ...

February 16, 2018

Iranian Authorities Arrest Lawyer Who Exposed Death of Protester in Police Custody

Civil Rights Activists Also Detained February 16, 2018 – Attorney Mohammad Najafi has been held in detention in the Iranian city of Arak since January ...

February 13, 2018

Some University Students Still Detained a Month After Iran’s Protests Despite Officials’ Claims

Contrary to Iranian official’s claims that all the university students who were detained in connection with Iran’s ...

February 5, 2018

Iranian Hardline Cleric Says Protesters Should be Sentenced to Death

A Friday prayer leader in Tehran has called for the death penalty to be issued to citizens who participated in the ...

February 5, 2018

Shirin Ebadi: Bill That Restricts Protests to Designated Areas in Iran Adds “More Limits” to Freedom of Speech

A proposed bill aimed at designating public spaces in Iran for protests will lead to “more limits” on the people’s right ...

February 1, 2018

Parliamentary Delegation Visiting Evin Prison Told 4,534 Were Arrested in Iranian Protests

More than a month after thousands of people were arrested in Iran after weeklong protests erupted across the country beginning in ...

January 29, 2018

300 Iranian Women’s Rights Advocates Voice Support For Protests, Demand Equality

More than 300 Iranian women’s rights’ activists have expressed support for the recent anti-government protests in Iran and demanded an end to state ...

January 26, 2018

40 Iranian MPs Call for Immediate Release of Detained University Students

Forty Iranian lawmakers have written to President Hassan Rouhani and Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani urging them to immediately release student detainees ...

January 26, 2018

More than 150 Detained Iranian Protesters Have Requested “Pills,” Reports Committee

Credible Sources Report That Detainees Told to Request Pills to Speed Up Release More than 150 people detained in the ...

January 26, 2018

Detainees Arrested in Iranian Protests Facing Charges That Carry Death Penalty

Some detainees arrested in the protests that broke out in Iran’s Hamadan and Khuzestan provinces in December 2017 are facing ...

January 25, 2018

Latest Victim of Repressed Iranian Protests Identified as 24-Year-Old Man From Karaj

“They Buried Him Like He Was a Criminal” Hassan Shahin Tarkashvand, a 24-year-old man from the city of Karaj, has been ...

January 24, 2018

Local Activist Refutes Official Claims That Young Men Killed by Security Forces Amid Sanandaj Protests Were Armed

Mokhtar Zarei Two young men who were killed by security forces in the city of Sanandaj in ...

January 22, 2018

Iranian Protesters Who Died in Custody Accused of Being Drug Addicts

Iranian officials have accused two Iranian protesters who died in custody of committing suicide and of being drug addicts. But a prominent human rights lawyer and a reformist MP ...

January 19, 2018

Second Name Revealed in Shooting Deaths Amid Sanandaj Protests

Intelligence Ministry Pressures Families To Refuse Media Interviews Kianoosh Zandi, 24, has been named the second victim in a shooting case ...

January 18, 2018

Police Arrest Three Gonabadi Dervishes and Injure 10 at Peaceful Rally For Detained Devotees

Ten members of a persecuted Sufi order in Iran were injured and three others arrested in the city of Kowar, Fars Province after police attacked their rally in ...

January 18, 2018

Detained Iranian Protesters Told to Admit Being Drug Addicts to Speed Up Release

Vahid Heydari (right) and Sina Ghanbari were ...

January 16, 2018

Intelligence Ministry Forces Father of Slain Protester to Repeat Authorities’ Version of Events on State TV

Iran’s Intelligence Ministry coerced the father of a dead protester into claiming in front of a camera that his son ...

January 12, 2018

Intelligence Ministry Agents Intimidate Family of Slain Farmer Killed at Protest

Nematollah Shafiei was a bystander who was shot and killed during protests in Qahderijan, Isfahan Province, on ...

January 12, 2018

President Rouhani Changes Course and Acknowledges Protesters’ Varied Reasons For Discontent

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani struck a more conciliatory tone in reacting for the second time to a wave of protests that ...

January 11, 2018

Local Officials in Iranian City Dezful Attempt to Deflect Responsibility for Protesters’ Death

A protester died from a bullet wound during a protest in the city of Dezful despite a local official’s claim that “this man’s ...

January 11, 2018

Iran Should Launch Independent Investigation of Deaths of Two Protesters in Prison

“They arrested him and then they beat and killed him. Now they want to destroy his reputation.” January 11, 2018—Iran should launch an independent investigation of the cases ...

January 9, 2018