Another Abducted Dissident Sentenced to Death in Iran
Supreme Court Upholds Death Sentence Against Habib Farajollah Chaab After Show Trial Three Foreign Dissidents Have Been Abducted and Sentenced to Death in Iran ...
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November 21, 2022
Iran Protests: Massacre in Kurdish Areas Feared as Security Forces Launch Lethal Crackdown
Authorities Shut Down Internet to Prevent Evidence of State’s Atrocities from Reaching Outside World November 21, 2022 – With Iranian security forces launching ...
October 24, 2022
Iran Protests: State Trying to Crush Dissent Through More Killings, Imprisonment
Prominent Teachers, Labor Leaders Slapped with Jail Time as 500+ Face Sham Charges October 24, 2022 – The sentencing of prominent teachers and labor rights ...
October 17, 2022
Joint Statement: 43 Rights Groups Call for Urgent Action on Iran at UN Human Rights Council
Forty-three human rights groups, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), ...
September 21, 2022
Iran Protests: Grave Concerns for Extreme State Violence Amid Rising Death Toll
World Leaders Must Call on Iranian Officials to Immediately Cease Use of Lethal Force, Allow Peaceful Protest September 21, 2022 – On the sixth ...
February 15, 2022
Crackdown on Labor Activists in Iran
Amid an intensifying campaign of political repression in Iran, state authorities have been summoning, detaining, and imprisoning peaceful labor rights activists ...
March 9, 2021
For Translating a Book About Syria, Arash Ganji Must Serve 5 Years in an Iranian Prison
Arash Ganji, a translator and secretary of the board of directors of the Iranian ...
February 26, 2021
Non-Persian Mother Languages Treated as “National Security Threat” in Iran
As the world marked International Mother Language Day in 2021, non-Persian native languages remained under attack in Iran, where non-Persian-speaking ethnic minorities are ...
February 4, 2021
36 Human Rights Groups Appeal for Release of Kurdish Detainees and Other Minorities in Iran
The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has joined 35 fellow civil society and human rights organizations to make the following urgent appeal and end the ongoing intimidation and arrest campaign against Kurdish and other minority activists ...
June 10, 2020
Father of Female Political Prisoner Worries She Has COVID-19 Without Access to Treatment
Fears that the ethnic Kurdish Iranian political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian (also spelled Zeynab) could have contracted COVID-19 in Tehran Province’s Gharchak Prison ...
December 20, 2019
Family of Marivan Man Found in Dam: “We Are Sure He Died in Detention Under Torture”
*Warning: This article contains details that may be disturbing to some readers. The family of 25-year-old Ershad Rahmanian, whose body was found in the ...
February 14, 2019
Ten Detained Political Activists and Environmentalists Denied Counsel in Iran’s Kurdistan Province
Ten political activists and environmentalists arrested in Iran’s Kurdistan Province between December 31, 2018, and January 6, 2019, are ...
July 27, 2018
Kurdish Activist Facing Prison Time in Iran For Criticizing Supreme Leader
Kurdish political activist Mokhtar Zarei was summoned and taken into custody in Sanandaj, the capital of Iran’s Kurdistan Province, on July 21, 2018, for criticizing Iran’s Supreme ...
July 6, 2018
Kurdish Death Row Prisoner in Iran Repeatedly Led to Believe Execution Would Be Carried Out
Photo: Ramin Hossein Panahi has been transferred to an unknown location possibly to face execution. The authorities of Iran’s ...
May 2, 2018
Execution Imminent of Prisoner in Iran Despite Unfair Trial and Credible Allegations of Torture
Photo: Ramin Hossein Panahi has been transferred to an unknown location possibly to face execution. Lawyer: “Ramin’s case is ...
March 30, 2018
Harsh Sentence Upheld For Iranian Kurdish Activist While Brother Awaits Appeal on Death Sentence
An Appeals Court has upheld the eight-year prison sentence issued against Iranian Kurdish civil rights activist Afshin Hossein ...
September 20, 2017
Family of Man Shot by Iranian Border Guards: Authorities “Lying” About Victim’s Identity
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September 19, 2017
Kurdish Activists Detained for Protesting Killing of Border Couriers
Six Kurdish artists and activists are being detained in Dizelabad Prison in Iran’s Kermanshah Province for protesting the ...
June 28, 2017
Guilt by Association: Relatives of Armed Kurdish Group Member Shot by IRGC Arrested
“We don’t know if he’s dead or still alive.” Four relatives of a member of a Kurdish militant organization who was recently ...
June 28, 2012
Imprisoned Kurdish Activist Deprived of Visit with Ailing Son
Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, a Kurdish human rights activist who has been in prison since 2007, has been on a wet hunger strike for over a month to demand visitation rights with his sick child. After visiting him on June 20, Kaboudvand’s wife, Parinaz Baghban Hassani, ...
April 26, 2012
Callous Border Security Guns Down 70 Couriers in Iran
The Iranian government should immediately investigate the numerous cases of border security forces killing couriers in the northwestern provinces of West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, and Kermanshah, and hold accountable those responsible for such callous use of unlawful force, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran ...
April 23, 2012
Imprisoned Kurdish Citizen Transferred for Unknown Reason
Hossein Kamangar, a resident of Kamyaran and relative of executed Kurdish teacher Farzad Kamangar, is currently in an ambiguous legal state, a local source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. In January 2012, a security organization summoned Kamangar to appear, where authorities ...
October 24, 2011
“Prison Authorities Say He Won’t Need Warm Winter Clothes As He Will Be Executed”
Eghbal Moradi, father of Zanyar Moradi, a Kurdish prisoner at Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the Supreme Court upheld his son’s death sentence. “My relatives went to prison this week to bring Zanyar warm clothing, ...