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Tag : Iran

December 10, 2018

121 Nobel Laureates Urge Khamenei to Free Imprisoned Dual National Ahmadreza Djalali

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 ...

December 6, 2018

Support Human Rights in Iran and Double Your Impact

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” --Margaret Mead, Anthropologist This holiday season, reaffirm your commitment to protecting and promoting the ...

October 19, 2018

Farhad Meysami’s “Life Is In Danger” Two Months Into Debilitating Hunger Strike

"He has been tied to the bed and injected with serum." Imprisoned rights activist Reza Khandan has warned Iranian authorities that another fellow political prisoner could die if he is not allowed immediate medical care outside Evin Prison in ...

October 3, 2018

120 Academics and Activists Join UN in Calling on Iran to Free Princeton Scholar Xiyue Wang

Xiyue Wang (right) with his son and wife. A group of 120 academics and human rights activists of Iranian origin have called on Iran to free imprisoned American scholar Xiyue ...

August 9, 2018

Local Authorities in Iran Say They Will Investigate Shooting Death of Protester in Karaj

A judicial investigation is underway in Iran to determine how 26-year-old shopkeeper Reza Otadi died from a bullet wound during a protest rally near Tehran on August 3, 2018, according to local officials. Iranian authorities typically blame the ...

August 3, 2018

Iranian Parliamentary Group Reports Drop in Support For Strict Hijab

Conservative-Dominated Parliament Compiles Data Showing Failure of State’s Hijab Policy Iran’s Parliamentary Research Center (PRC) has released a report showing decreasing support among the Iranian public for strict observation of the hijab, the head-to-toe Islamic dress code that ...

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 for preventing her sister from traveling to France to visit her ...

June 22, 2018

Child Refugees With Disabilities in Iran Struggle to Access Education and Healthcare

In interviews conducted by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ahead of this year’s World Refugee Day, June 20, 2018, several Afghan refugees in Iran described difficulties accessing basic ...

June 18, 2018

UN Rights Experts: Iran Must Halt Execution of Ramin Hossein Panahi

GENEVA, UN (18 June 2018) – UN human rights experts* have made a fresh call to Iran to annul the death sentence imposed on Iranian Kurd Ramin Hossein Panahi, amid reports that ...

April 19, 2018

UN Rights Experts Call on Iran to Annul Death Sentence Against Ramin Hossein Panahi

GENEVA (19 April 2018) – United Nations human rights experts* have called for Iran to annul the death sentence against an Iranian Kurdish prisoner, Ramin Hossein Panahi, amid serious concerns that he has not received a fair ...

March 12, 2018

Iran Considers Lifting Its Nine-Year Ban on Twitter

A meeting of Iran's Supreme Council of Cyberspace. State Body Calls Social Media an “Effective Means of Public Diplomacy” The Iranian government’s top internet policy body is currently debating whether it should ...

March 8, 2018

Ongoing Harassment: Wife of Iranian-Canadian Who Died in Iran’s Evin Prison “Banned” From Leaving Country

Lives of Seyed-Emami Family Thrown Into “Chaos and Terror” March 8, 2018—The Iranian government should immediately allow the wife of Iranian-Canadian academic and environmentalist Kavous Seyed-Emami to leave Iran as she wishes and stop intimidating and harassing the ...

February 11, 2018

Defenders of Human Rights in Iran Mourn the Passing of Asma Jahangir

February 11, 2018 -- It is with great sadness that we heard of the death of Ms. Asma Jahangir, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran. She passed away on February ...

February 3, 2018

170 Iranian MPs Demand Ban on Foreign Social Media Apps

 A few weeks after major protests erupted across Iran in December 2017, the majority of the country's lawmakers signed a letter calling for a state ban on foreign social media ...

December 14, 2017

How Many Camels is One Human Life Worth? Attorney Calls For Reform in Iran’s “Blood Money” Scheme

Blood money should be calculated on the basis of actual costs and inflation, not the market price for camels, as it is currently based on in Iran, according to a Tehran-based civil rights lawyer. According to Islamic law, ...

November 7, 2017

34 NGOs Urge UNGA Member States to Support Resolution on Human Rights in Iran

Thirty-four Iranian and international NGOs, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), have sent a joint letter to UN General Assembly member states urging them to support Resolution A/C.3/72/L.41, on human rights in Iran, which will be voted on next week before the ...

September 26, 2017

Trump’s New Travel Ban: Collective Punishment of the Iranian People

Blanket Restrictions Aid Hardliners’ Efforts to Isolate Iranians from the World September 26, 2017—The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) strongly condemns the new travel ban announced by the Trump administration on September ...

September 18, 2017

Free Iranian Dual National Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Iranian-British dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to 5 YEARS in prison in Tehran in a secret trial without due process. This is her story....

September 5, 2017

Iran Columnist Serving 10 Years Protests Illegal Prison Sentence Extension

Afarin Chitsaz’s Mother Also Receives Prison Sentence Imprisoned newspaper columnist Afarin Chitsaz has gone on hunger strike to protest the illegal extension of her two-year prison sentence that was scheduled to end this ...

August 16, 2017

Iranian Soccer Body Says Star Players Not Banned for Playing Against Israeli Team

Iranian soccer stars Masoud Shojaei (right) and Ehsan Hajsafi (left). “No Decision” Ruling Issued Following Social Media Public Outcry After days of public outcry over an ...

July 18, 2017

Cartoon 171: Privacy in Iran

Cartoonist Touka Neyastani ...

June 1, 2017

Well-Known Cleric Urges Rouhani to Drop Justice Minister for Role in 1988 Prisoner Massacre

A well-known dissident cleric is urging newly re-elected President Hassan Rouhani to drop Justice Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi from his cabinet for his role in human rights violations. ...

May 23, 2017

Formerly Imprisoned Lawyer and Religious Minority Activist Expelled From University Without Explanation

Mostafa Daneshjou, a formerly imprisoned lawyer and member of a Sufi religious order known as the Gonabadi Dervishes, has been expelled from university without explanation, ...

April 12, 2017

Iranian Sunni Cleric and Critic of Iran’s Involvement in Syria Released From Detention

Molavi Fazl al-Rahman Kouhi, an outspoken Sunni cleric in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan Province, was released from detention on $31,000 USD bail on April 10, 2017 after being questioned for a week in the ...

April 10, 2017

Son of Grand Ayatollah Blasts Presidential Bid of Human Rights Violator Ebrahim Raisi

The son of late Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who publicly condemned the extrajudicial executions of thousands of political prisoners in 1988, has criticized the newly announced presidential candidacy of ...

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Latest News

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    Students Arrested and Banished, Professors Fired in Latest State Crackdown in Iran
    June 1, 2023
  • Leading Iranian Lawyers Urge UN to Address Illegal Use of Death Penalty
    Leading Iranian Lawyers Urge UN to Address Illegal Use of Death Penalty
    May 30, 2023
  • Joint Letter: Biden Urged to Help Retract Appointment of Iranian Ambassador to Chair Social Forum
    Joint Letter: Biden Urged to Help Retract Appointment of Iranian Ambassador to Chair Social Forum
    May 26, 2023
  • World Leaders Urged to Radically Increase Pressure on Iran to Cease Executions
    World Leaders Urged to Radically Increase Pressure on Iran to Cease Executions
    May 24, 2023
  • UN Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission on Iran Condemns Surging Executions
    UN Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission on Iran Condemns Surging Executions
    May 20, 2023
  • More Executions of Protesters in Iran Imminent after Sham Trials
    More Executions of Protesters in Iran Imminent after Sham Trials
    May 17, 2023
  • UNHRC: Retract Appointment of Iranian Ambassador to Chair Social Forum
    UNHRC: Retract Appointment of Iranian Ambassador to Chair Social Forum
    May 11, 2023
  • UN Human Rights Chief: Executions in Iran Must Stop
    UN Human Rights Chief: Executions in Iran Must Stop
    May 10, 2023
  • Three Hangings in Three Days: The Islamic Republic Continues Its Killing Spree
    Three Hangings in Three Days: The Islamic Republic Continues Its Killing Spree
    May 8, 2023
  • Activists Detained, Workers Threatened as Oil Industry Workers Strike in Iran
    Activists Detained, Workers Threatened as Oil Industry Workers Strike in Iran
    May 4, 2023
  • Dozens of Labor Activists Detained, Thousands of Workers Threatened as Strikes Roil Iran
    Dozens of Labor Activists Detained, Thousands of Workers Threatened as Strikes Roil Iran
    May 4, 2023
  • Iran: School Girls Continue to Face Chemical Attacks, Officials Refuse to Provide Security
    Iran: School Girls Continue to Face Chemical Attacks, Officials Refuse to Provide Security
    April 24, 2023
  • Imprisoned Dissident Rapper Toomaj Salehi, Voice of Iran’s Protests, Faces Possible Execution
    Imprisoned Dissident Rapper Toomaj Salehi, Voice of Iran’s Protests, Faces Possible Execution
    April 6, 2023
  • Journalists Denied Release from Prison Amid Supreme Leader’s “Pardon” PR Ploy
    Journalists Denied Release from Prison Amid Supreme Leader’s “Pardon” PR Ploy
    March 23, 2023
  • Iranian and French Lawyers, Doctors Demand Release of Lawyer Mohammad Najafi
    Iranian and French Lawyers, Doctors Demand Release of Lawyer Mohammad Najafi
    March 17, 2023
  • Another Abducted Dissident Sentenced to Death in Iran
    Another Abducted Dissident Sentenced to Death in Iran
    March 13, 2023
  • Teachers Across Iran Protest Government’s Inaction on School Gas Attacks
    Teachers Across Iran Protest Government’s Inaction on School Gas Attacks
    March 10, 2023
  • CHRI Board Member Mehrangiz Kar Receives Women’s Award for Justice and Advocacy from NYC Bar Association
    CHRI Board Member Mehrangiz Kar Receives Women’s Award for Justice and Advocacy from NYC Bar Association
    March 9, 2023
  • 20 Prominent Iranian Lawyers Call on UN to Investigate School Girl Poisonings
    20 Prominent Iranian Lawyers Call on UN to Investigate School Girl Poisonings
    March 6, 2023
  • Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi: I Will “Testify” About Sexual Assault Against Protesters
    Political Prisoner Narges Mohammadi: I Will "Testify" About Sexual Assault Against Protesters
    March 3, 2023
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