May 26, 2022 – While millions of Iranians are struggling to make ends meet, the Iranian government has shut down the country’s oldest and largest independent non-governmental organization (NGO) focused on poverty alleviation, the Imam Ali Popular ...
International Community Must Call on Iranian Officials to Refrain from Deadly Repression May 12, 2022 – Ongoing street protests in Iran could lead to more killings and arbitrary imprisonments by state security forces if the international community remains silent, the ...
Internet Shutdown, Heavy Security Presence Signal Lethal State Repression May 9, 2022 – Government-enforced internet outages and the increased presence of state security forces throughout the Iranian province of Khuzestan, where street protests erupted on May 6, have raised fears ...
Amid an intensifying campaign of political repression in Iran, state authorities have been summoning, detaining, and imprisoning peaceful labor rights ...
Sattar Rahmani, a former teacher and political prisoner in Iran, is an expert on ...
International Community Must Finally Act with One Voice to Address these Crimes Evidence of the Islamic Republic’s Top Officials Directly Involved in the ...
Group was Arrested Ahead of Filing Lawsuit Against State Officials for Disastrous Pandemic Response Legal Teams of Defendants Denied Access to ...
U.S. Leadership on Global Pandemic Response Should Not Be Tied to Politics Iranian American Groups Call for Aid to “Brave and Resilient” Iranian ...
Six Arbitrarily Detained as State Tries to Block Attempt to Seek Justice August 17, 2021—The unlawful arrests of six prominent lawyers and civil ...
Iran Refusing COVAX Offers as Infections, Deaths Surge Biden Administration Should Include Iran in Global Vaccination Campaign August 11, 2021–Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ...
Parliament Maneuvers to Pass Bill Without Full Vote to Avoid Public Scrutiny Move Comes on Heels of State’s Internet Shutdowns During Crackdown on ...
New Amnesty Report Highlights Use of Live Ammunition, Killings in Drought-Ridden Province July 23, 2021—With security forces in Iran attacking and killing ...
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 ...
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 ...
At Least Two Political Prisoners Have Died in Past Four Months Niknafs Was Jailed Despite Health Conditions That Made Him Unfit for Prison June ...
A directive “ratified” by Iran’s Guardian Council, imposing new requirements for candidates to qualify to run in Iran’s June 2021 ...
May 10, 2021 The Honorable Joseph R. Biden The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20500 Dear President Biden, We, the undersigned organizations, write to urge you to prioritize human rights as you shape your administration’s foreign policy toward Iran. As ...
May 5, 2021 – Eight months after an Iranian wrestler was unjustly executed in Shiraz, his brothers Vahid and Habib ...
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Unpaid Wages and Benefits, Unfair Wages Trigger Increasingly Organized Strikes Labor Activists Jailed Under Trumped-Up Charges April 30, 2021 – As International ...
April 27, 2021 – World powers negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program should present a joint stance against Iran’s cruel ...
Iran’s judicial system allows detainees and prisoners to be subjected to harsh and inhuman interrogations without access to counsel and with ...
Labor Ministry Calculations Ignore Actual Rate of Inflation At the end of every year in Iran, the Labor Ministry sets ...
At Least 23 Killed by State Forces Since Unrest Began in Late February March 1, 2021—The killing by state security forces of some ...
In a statement published on February 22, 2021, a relative of two U.S. citizens detained in Iran on trumped-up charges--Baquer Namazi ...
