Rapper Toomaj Salehi's Death Sentence Marks New Low in Iran's Crackdown on Dissent April 24, 2024 – A death sentence issued in Iran against dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi underscores the glaring unlawfulness and injustice of the Islamic Republic’s ...
Canada, Sweden, Ukraine, and UK Call for Binding Arbitration No One Held Accountable for IRGC’s Killing of 176 Passengers January 6, 2023—Three years ...
Since anti-state protests broke out across Iran in September 2022, following the killing in state custody of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini, hundreds of peaceful protesters have been killed by state security forces and thousands arrested. Two young men ...
Unable to Crush Protests, State Resorts to Smearing Female Reporters with Sham Accusations November 1, 2022 – The Iranian government’s fabricated ...
Amid an intensifying campaign of political repression in Iran, state authorities have been summoning, detaining, and imprisoning peaceful labor rights ...
High-Level Intelligence Official: “Social Discontent Has Increased About 300 Percent” A top-secret Iranian state document leaked to RFE/RL’s Radio Farda ...
IRGC Commanders Appointed as Governor-Generals to 10 of Iran’s 31 Provinces “People’s tolerance level has decreased in recent years, given the ...
Teachers and supporters protested in the streets of more than 119 Iranian cities across Iran ...
Two years after Iran’s massive November 2019 protests, the government has yet to respond to questions about its deadly use of force to suppress the demonstrations, which occurred in more than 200 cities, leaving hundreds dead and thousands injured ...
Court Rulings Reveal Systematic Religious Discrimination The Baha’i faith community is one of the most severely persecuted religious minorities in Iran. Iran’s government is ...
Parliament Maneuvers to Pass Bill Without Full Vote to Avoid Public Scrutiny Move Comes on Heels of State’s Internet Shutdowns During Crackdown on ...
May 5, 2021 – Eight months after an Iranian wrestler was unjustly executed in Shiraz, his brothers Vahid and Habib ...
April 27, 2021 – World powers negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program should present a joint stance against Iran’s cruel ...
Imam Ali Popular Students Relief Society Shuttered after Tehran Court Grants Motion by Interior Ministry March 4, 2021—An Interior Ministry motion ...
Farsi Version (PDF) GENEVA (30 July 2020) – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, ...
Rights Activist Will Serve Two More Years in Prison After Serving Five More New Cases Opened Against Daemi, Maryam Akbari Monfared, Leila ...
May 27, 2020 — A new report released today by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) documents the extraordinary state ...
“The trial did not last even a minute,” Legal Counsel Denied Civil rights activist Shora Fekri was taken to prison in Amol, Mazandaran ...
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 ...
Three Relatives of Iranian Dissidents Arbitrarily Prosecuted in One Month Amid a renewed crackdown on peaceful criticism of Iranian state policies, the ...
Alireza Ghandchi: "They Have Taken Away My Family and Destroyed My Life" A man whose wife and two children were killed after the ...
Eyewitnesses Report Heavy Paramilitary Presence, Internet and Phone Disruptions Protesters were physically attacked and arrested at universities in Tehran and other Iranian cities ...
Addressing the Nuclear Deal is Not Enough; Rights Issues Are Central to Region’s Stability 28-Country Bloc Should Call on Iranian Authorities to Respect ...
January 11, 2020 – The Iranian people should be allowed to exercise their constitutional right to peaceful assembly without the threat of ...
One of the longest-serving political prisoners in Iran, Mohammad Nazari, is eligible for release but is being arbitrarily denied freedom, Mohammad Hossein Aghasi told ...
