A New Civil Rights Movement is Born in Iran June 10, 2021 - Ahead of Iran's June 18 presidential election, public discussions on the Clubhouse social networking app by victims of state repression--including vivid descriptions of torture in ...
Exhibition Extended Until December 14 October 14, 2019 - The Center for Human Rights in Iran is honored to announce an upcoming exhibition of 13 contemporary Iranian women artists in New York City, curated by the internationally acclaimed ...
Civil rights activist Parastou Forouhar is awaiting the results of her appeal against a six-year suspended prison sentence issued to her by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran, she told the ...
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 policies that discourage women from entering the workforce. “As campaigners ...
Mohammad Mokhtari(left) and Mohammad Jafar Pouyandeh were murdered in the fall of 1998. Security forces prevented a gathering ...
“I know I will not be treated fairly by the judiciary.” A prominent Iranian lawyer who was previously imprisoned for her peaceful defense of human rights has refused to comply with a summons by the Revolutionary Court in Evin ...
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry pressed charges against activist Parastou Forouhar based on a photo of one of her artworks that created a stir on social media, she told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on November 13, ...
An Iranian activist who has been seeking justice for her parents murdered by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in 1998, will soon be put on trial based on charges brought by the same ministry. “I ...
Prominent rights activist Parastou Forouhar, whose parents were slain by agents of the Iranian government during a series of murders of dissidents beginning in the late 1980s, has been summoned without a given reason to appear ...
