Holding a public referendum in Iran on the fate of the Islamic Republic is an idea that has recently been gaining favor among Iranian political activists and civil rights advocates, both inside the country and abroad. Proponents of ...
The signing of a 25-year pact between the People’s Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Iran has generated strong reaction among Iranians, many of whom took to social media to object with ...
Labor Ministry Calculations Ignore Actual Rate of Inflation At the end of every year in Iran, the Labor Ministry sets the national minimum wage for the following year, determining a base income for more than ...
New OFAC License for GitHub Highlights Shortcomings of General License D1 An Interview with Internet Freedom and Security Expert Amir Rashidi Key Points: Iranians are largely unable to use international communications tools and services because companies won’t sell their products to ...
Judicial Action Sought Against “Those Who Enforce Solitary Confinement and Superiors Who Order It” Use of Solitary Confinement Not Supported Under Iranian law Key Findings: Civil rights activists have filed a lawsuit in Tehran against those who order ...
The Imam Ali Popular Students Relief Society (IAPSRS) is Iran’s largest independent ...
Widespread Shutdown of Internet Described as Violation of International Law In response to the killing by state security forces of couriers and protesters in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan Province since unrest broke out in the area ...
Imam Ali Popular Students Relief Society Shuttered after Tehran Court Grants Motion by Interior Ministry March 4, 2021—An Interior Ministry motion to disband the Imam Ali Popular Students Relief Society (IAPSRS) was ...
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 subject to state and institutional discrimination and the official teaching of mother languages is ...
In a statement published on February 22, 2021, a relative of two U.S. citizens detained in Iran on trumped-up charges--Baquer Namazi and his son, Siamak Namazi--called on President Joe Biden to secure their release. The statement, ...
A group of international human rights groups including the Center for Human Rights in Iran today published a joint statement expressing serious concerns over a renewed crackdown on Afghan civil society, including a wave of kidnappings and ...
Iran Should Base COVID-19 Vaccine Decisions on Science January 20, 2021 -- In light of the statement by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on January 8, 2021, that the Islamic Republic will not import any COVID-19 vaccines ...
On January 10, 2021, Iranian retirees gathered in front of government buildings in at least 19 cities including--Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, and Yazd--to protest the government’s lack of response to their demands. The protesters, who receive ...
Women in Iran are among the Middle East’s most educated, yet they continue to face severe rights violations in both law and practice. In CHRI’s Women’s Rights Fact Sheet, these abuses—in areas such as the lack of protections against violence, inequality in family and criminal ...
EU Countries Withdraw from Iran Business Forum in Protest Over Execution France Tweets Outrage over “Barbaric and Unacceptable” Execution of Rouhollah Zam December 14, 2020—Major European countries have pulled out of a planned Europe-Iran Business Forum that was ...
Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has already previously served three years in prison for her defense of dissidents, activists, journalists and minorities in Iran after being convicted of national ...
Doctors Say Hospitalization Required, Instead Sotoudeh Moved to Iran’s Most Dangerous Prison Human Rights Lawyer’s Health in Serious Danger October 20, 2020 -- Nasrin Sotoudeh, the imprisoned human rights attorney, has been moved to the notoriously harsh ...
Rushed Convictions Show Judiciary Willing to Do Bidding of Intelligence Forces State Responds to Growing Societal Discontent with Intensified Efforts to Silence All Dissent October 1, 2020—In a blatant move to keep political prisoners in Iran behind bars despite ...
Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer Had Been on Hunger Strike Since Aug 11 September 26, 2020—The imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has broken the hunger strike she had been on since August 11, her husband, Reza Khandan ...
Husband Catches Glimpse as She is Wheeled for Tests: “She does not look well at all” Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer on Hunger Strike Since August 11 to Free Iran’s Political Prisoners September 20, 2020—The imprisoned human rights lawyer ...
Execution of Navid Afkari: “Imposed following a process that did not meet even the most basic…fair trial standards, behind a smokescreen of a murder charge” UN human rights experts released a statement today “strongly condemning” Iran’s execution of ...
Champion Wrestler Executed despite Evidence of Torture and Innocence September 12, 2020—The execution of Navid Afkari, the 27-year-old champion wrestler, by hanging at sunrise today in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, demonstrates the Iranian judiciary’s complete ...
“The unjust sentences of political prisoners…may turn into death sentences if urgent action is not taken.” International pressure on Iran to release imprisoned human rights lawyers Nasrin Sotoudeh and Amirsalar Davoodi, both behind bars in the country’s Evin Prison for ...
A session of the UN's Human Rights Council. Urgent Need for Accountabilty After “Brutal Campaign of Mass Repression by the Iranian Authorities” A coalition of international rights organizations, including the Center for Human ...
Lawyer for Navid Afkari: Video Footage Proves He Did Not Commit Alleged Crime “There is not one shred of evidence ... they are looking for a neck for their rope” September 2, 2020—The Iranian wrestling champion Navid Afkari has ...
