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 ...
Tag : Judiciary
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 general of ...
December 12, 2018
Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike in Iran Has Died, Another in Grave Danger
Vahid Sayyadi-Nasiri Was on Hunger Strike to Protest Denial of Counsel and Prison Conditions Growing Crisis as Political Prisoners ...
November 29, 2018
UN Experts: Iran Must Protect Women’s Rights Advocates
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November 15, 2018
Banning Imprisoned Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh From Seeing Her Children is Cruel and Unlawful
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November 12, 2018
40 Civil Society Organizations Urge UN to Support Resolution on Human Rights in Iran
Forty civil society organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) have signed a letter urging UN member states ...
October 17, 2018
Iranian Women Attend Men’s Soccer Game, Standing Firm Against State Ban and Hardline Threats
October 17, 2018 – After decades of activists peacefully campaigning against Iran’s state ban on women in sports stadiums, dozens of ...
October 1, 2018
Iran Should Immediately Free Political Prisoner Arash Sadeghi on Medical Grounds
Denial of Medical Care to Political Prisoners Routine in Iran October 1, 2018 – Iranian authorities should immediately free political prisoner Arash Sadeghi so he can ...
September 13, 2018
Iran is Jailing and Threatening Human Rights Attorneys
Seven human rights lawyers have been arrested in Iran since January 2018 as the state escalates its assault against its own legal profession and its flagrant violations of basic rights of freedom of expression and due process. “The authorities in Iran arrested these lawyers for ...
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 ...
August 22, 2018
60 European MPs Call on President Rouhani to Work For Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Release
Iranian defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh was detained on June 13, 2018, and ...
August 17, 2018
Prolonged Detention of Environmentalists “None of Your Business,” Iran’s Judiciary Tells Vice President
The chief of Iran’s Department of Environment, Vice President Isa Kalantari, has told state media that the judiciary has ...
August 9, 2018
Iran’s Authorities Should Denounce Threat to BBC Made by Iranian News Agency
Mizan News Agency “Incites Violence Against Our Journalists” Says BBC August 9, 2018—The inflammatory statements against the BBC ...
August 9, 2018
State TV of Iran Must End Its Use of Families to Discredit Journalists, Dissenters
State Broadcasts of Family Members Used to Silence Activists (New York, August 9, 2018) – Iranian authorities should immediately stop harassing and threatening ...
August 6, 2018
Lawyer Calls on President Rouhani to Work For Human Rights Attorney Abdolfattah Soltani’s Release
Abdolfattah Soltani poses for a family photo. His daughter, Homa (right), passed away on ...
July 11, 2018
Free Iran’s Political Prisoners
July 12, 2018--During a speech in March 2018, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed that no one in Iran ...
June 28, 2018
Iranian Journalist and Political Activist Detained For Criticizing Iran’s Judiciary
Well-known journalist and political activist Hengameh Shahidi was arrested upon leaving a hospital in Iran’s Kish ...
June 27, 2018
Widow Hospitalized After IRGC Storms Home of Iranian Canadian Who Died in Iranian State Custody
Tehran Prosecutor Ordered Raid to Gather Footage For a “Film” The widow of an Iranian Canadian environmentalist who recently died in state custody in ...
June 20, 2018
Iran: Stop Imminent Execution of Kurdish Prisoner, Investigate Evidence of Torture and Denial of Due Process
Fear Grows After Bus Driver Was Executed in Iran Despite Similar Concerns June 20, 2018—The Iranian judiciary should ...
June 13, 2018
Prominent Attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh Detained Amid Iranian Judiciary’s Crackdown on Human Rights Lawyers
Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh previously served three years in prison ...
May 24, 2018
Eight Iranian Officials Call For Lifting Ban on Twitter Less Than a Month After State Blocks Telegram
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 ...
May 8, 2018
Iranian Opposition Leader Under House Arrest Declines “Limited” Lifting of Restrictions
Zahra Rahnavard Demands Unconditional Freedom For Herself and Fellow House Arrest Detainees Zahra Rahnavard, an Iranian opposition leader ...
May 1, 2018
Rouhani’s Citizens’ Rights Charter: A Harmful Distraction
This report is essential reading for policymakers and officials charting a forward path with the Islamic Republic. It provides an in-depth review of the Citizens’ Rights Charter and analysis of the political dynamics affecting human rights in Iran. The report establishes that the charter has ...
March 14, 2018
Iranian Lawyers: Judiciary’s Mandatory List of Approved Counsel Sets “Dangerous Precedent”
Three human rights lawyers in Iran have strongly criticized the judiciary’s decision to force defendants held on politically motivated charges to pick their lawyer from an approved list ...
February 15, 2018
Mother of Ailing Hunger Striker Atena Daemi Assaulted in Front of Evin Prison
Atena Daemi (right) with her mother Masoumeh Nemati. Masoumeh Nemati, the mother of imprisoned civil rights activist Atena Daemi, was attacked in front of Evin Prison in ...