CHRI Board Member Mehrangiz Kar Receives Women’s Award for Justice and Advocacy from NYC Bar Association
March 9, 2023 – Iranian human rights lawyer and activist Mehrangiz Kar, a board member of the Center for Human ...
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October 20, 2021
Detained Lawyer of Iranian Instagram Star Tortured, Bit Off Tongue After Unidentified Injection
More Political Prisoners Could Die in Custody without Urgent International Action October 20, 2021 – A prominent defense attorney in Iran bit off part of ...
June 22, 2018
Open Letter: Distinguished Iranian Women Call on FIFA to Demand Iran End Its Ban on Women in Stadiums
June 22, 2018—In an open letter, prominent women of Iranian origin including Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, Oscar-nominated actress Shohreh Aghdashloo and legendary singer ...
March 27, 2018
Supreme Leader’s Comments on “Freedom” in Iran Ring Hollow For Victims of Rights Abuses
A former public defender that worked in Iran on cases involving human rights violations has spoken out ...
May 8, 2017
Mehrangiz Kar: My Husband Was Tortured and Forced to Confess by Presidential Candidate Ghalibaf’s Police
Presidential candidate Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf played a key role in major human rights violations as the commander of ...
May 8, 2015
Radical Website Calls for Murder of Musician, Iranian Officials Silent
Shahin Najafi German Police Address Threat While Website Offers Reward for Shahin Najafi's and His Fan's Death The announcement by an ultra-conservative website ...
August 9, 2011
Weekly Rights Podcast 33
In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: the court reviewing the case of the three Americans arrested more than two years ago has not yet issued its ruling; UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran requests entry into the country; imprisoned actress ...
August 1, 2011
Tehran Prosecutor’s Illegal Actions Against Political Prisoners Should be Stopped
Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, has turned the absolute legal rights of Iranian political prisoners, imprisoned journalists, and prisoners of conscience into special privileges that can only be granted a prisoner upon Mr. Dolatabadi’s decision. In order to use these absolute and legal rights, families ...
May 3, 2011
Prominent Journalist Ends Own Life to Protest Persecution
Siamak Pourzand, a long-time journalist and former prisoner of conscience, has died at age 80 in Tehran, having been unable to see his wife and children for a decade due to a travel ban imposed on him by Iranian authorities. His daughter, Leili Pourzand, stated ...
October 25, 2010
Veteran Political Prisoner Demands Trial of Supreme Leader
In a letter written from prison, political prisoner Heshmatollah Tabarzadi asked international courts to review his grievance against Iran’s Supreme Leader, Seyed Ali Khamenei. From Rajaee Shahr Prison, Tabarzadi called on Iranian lawyers, most of whom are currently in prison, free on bail, or have ...
April 23, 2010
“Does Iran Deserve to be on the UN Human Rights Council?”
(23 April 2010) Prominent Iranian human rights defenders and other members of civil society are calling on United Nations member states to soundly reject the Iranian government’s bid to become a member of the Human Rights Council. Despite Iran’s chronic neglect of international human rights, and ...