July 22, 2021

Rising COVID Infections, Unhygienic Conditions Raise Fears of More Deaths in Iranian Prisons

The start of a fifth COVID-19 wave in Iran, amidst national water and electricity shortages and unhygienic prison conditions, has greatly increased ...

July 21, 2021

14 Academic, Rights Groups Call for Release of Iranian Swedish Scholar Ahmadreza Djalali

In a joint statement issued today, 14 international academic and human rights groups including Scholars at Risk and the Center for Human Rights in Iran called on the U.S. and European governments to secure the ...

July 19, 2021

Khuzestan Protests: Iranians Should be Allowed to Air Grievances Without Threat of Death

At Least Three Shot Dead Less Than a Week into Demonstrations Against Water, Power Shortages July 19, 2021—The unlawful killings of protesters by state security ...

July 14, 2021

Foiled Kidnapping of Dissident Part of Iran’s Ramped-Up Campaign to Crush Dissent

Iranian Activists Abroad at Risk if Europe, U.S. Don’t Address Iran’s Unlawful Activities July 14, 2021 – The Center for Human Rights in ...

June 29, 2021

Oil Industry Strikes Gain Support Across Iran, Raising Prospect of Confrontation with State

Incoming President Raisi’s Record of Violence against Protesters Increases Concerns June 29, 2021—The continuation of strikes in Iran’s critical oil and petrochemical ...

June 29, 2021

Oil Industry Workers Go on National Strike in Iran

Significant Shift from Protest Rallies to Work Stoppages For the past week workers at refineries, petrochemical plants and power stations in Iran have ...

June 10, 2021

“Seeking Justice” Civil Rights Movement Aims to Uncover Facts and Keep Victims’ Memories Alive

A New Civil Rights Movement is Born in Iran June 10, 2021 - Ahead of Iran's June 18 presidential election, public discussions on ...

June 3, 2021

Iran Election: Don’t Ignore Ebrahim Raisi’s Gross Rights Violations

Judiciary Chief’s Presidential Bid Reignites Calls for Accountability June 3, 2021 – Iranian presidential candidate Ebrahim Raisi should be investigated for crimes ...

May 13, 2021

Iran Election: Guardian Council Flexes Muscle, Unlawfully Imposes More Qualification Requirements

A directive “ratified” by Iran’s Guardian Council, imposing new requirements for candidates to qualify to run in Iran’s June 2021 ...

March 12, 2021

Iranian Courts are Unlawfully Banishing Political Prisoners Into “Prison Exile”

*Editor's Note: Transfers that occurred after this article was published are listed at the bottom. Iran’s judicial system has a long, documented history of ...

March 11, 2021

Lawsuit by Civil Rights Activists Reignites Debate on Solitary Confinement in Iran’s Prisons

Judicial Action Sought Against “Those Who Enforce Solitary Confinement and Superiors Who Order It” Use of Solitary Confinement Not Supported Under Iranian law Key ...

November 25, 2020

Iran Must Not Execute Ahmadreza Djalali

Execution Reported to Be Imminent, Wife Has Received Farewell Call Swedish-Iranian Doctor Was Convicted on Spurious Charges After Unfair Trial November 25, 2020—The reported ...

October 20, 2020

Nasrin Sotoudeh Transferred to Notorious Gharchak Prison

Doctors Say Hospitalization Required, Instead Sotoudeh Moved to Iran’s Most Dangerous Prison Human Rights Lawyer’s Health in Serious Danger October 20, 2020 -- ...

September 20, 2020

Nasrin Sotoudeh in Hospital, Condition Deteriorating, Family Denied Access and Information

Husband Catches Glimpse as She is Wheeled for Tests: “She does not look well at all” Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer on Hunger Strike ...

September 2, 2020

Death Sentence for Champion Wrestler Based on False Evidence, Torture and Forced False Confessions

Lawyer for Navid Afkari: Video Footage Proves He Did Not Commit Alleged Crime “There is not one shred of evidence ... they are ...

August 11, 2020

New Conviction against Imprisoned Labor Leader Upheld to Keep Him Behind Bars

Jafar Azimzadeh Should Have Been Released, Instead Given Another 13 Months Now Activist Has Contracted COVID-19 in Iran’s Overcrowded Prisons The prominent labor activist ...

July 28, 2020

Judiciary Blocks Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Bank Account, Cutting Off Funds for Family

Husband of Imprisoned Human Rights Attorney Says Tactic Aimed at Silencing Family Reza Khandan: “They want to send a message to those who ...

July 27, 2020

Prominent Activist Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Protesting Downing of Ukrainian Passenger Plane

Bahareh Hedayat: Those 176 people will not come back to life; neither will those killed in November 2019 July 27, 2020—For her participation ...

July 8, 2020

Imprisoned Rights Activist Narges Mohammadi May Have COVID-19 Virus, Husband Says

Multiple Prisoners Showing Signs of Virus, No One Tested “Narges Mohammadi is being denied every basic right because she takes a stand” Imprisoned human ...

July 7, 2020

Atena Daemi Begins New Prison Sentence on Day She Was to Be Freed

Rights Activist Will Serve Two More Years in Prison After Serving Five More New Cases Opened Against Daemi, Maryam Akbari Monfared, Leila ...

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 ...

May 26, 2020

“They Aimed at My Son’s Head”: Report Reveals Carnage in Crushed Iran Protests

May 27, 2020 — A new report released today by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) documents the extraordinary state ...

May 7, 2020

Australian Academic Who Attempted Suicide Should be Freed from Unlawful Confinement in Iran

Scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert Kept in Bathroom-Like Temporary Holding Cell Since 2018 May 7, 2020 – A British-Australian academic held in isolation in Iran ...

April 23, 2020

COVID-19 Poses Extreme Danger to Arbitrarily Jailed Conservationists, Dual Nationals

Infected Wildlife Conservationist Sam Rajabi Refused Hospitalization, Cellmates Untested American Citizen Siamak Namazi Held in Same “Cell and Bunk Bed Row” as ...

April 17, 2020