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February 3, 2022

Leaked Iranian State Document: Expect Protests to Get Bigger and More Frequent

High-Level Intelligence Official: “Social Discontent Has Increased About 300 Percent” A top-secret Iranian state document leaked to RFE/RL’s Radio Farda has revealed senior intelligence and military officials’ internal assessment of the country’s severe social and ...

December 13, 2021

Teachers Across Iran Protest for Fair Pay, Release of Jailed Colleagues

Teachers and supporters protested in the streets of more than 119 Iranian cities across Iran ...

March 4, 2021

Security Establishment and Judiciary Collude in Disbandment of Iran’s Largest NGO

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 ...

May 21, 2020

Prison, Flogging for Protesters Who Gathered to Commemorate Victims of Plane Crash 

“The trial did not last even a minute,” Legal Counsel Denied Civil rights activist Shora Fekri was taken to prison in Amol, Mazandaran Province, on May 18, 2020, to begin serving a five-month prison sentence for protesting Iran’s ...

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 since September 2018, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, has repeatedly attempted suicide and could be in extreme ...

February 8, 2020

“Stop Trying to Destroy Me and My Family” Writes Iranian American Businessman from Tehran’s Evin Prison

In a letter from Evin Prison in Tehran where he has been held since October 2015, Iranian American businessman Siamak Namazi asked Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi why his requests for furlough have been repeatedly denied while those around him continue to be allowed to go ...

January 18, 2020

“Feverish Climate” at Tehran University After Students Arrested in Dormitory Raid

University of Tehran personnel assisted a raid by state forces on a dormitory that resulted in at least eight students being arrested as they gathered for a protest, an eyewitness told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) ...

January 16, 2020

Man Whose Wife, Children Died in Downed Passenger Plane to “Seek Justice”

Alireza Ghandchi: "They Have Taken Away My Family and Destroyed My Life" A man whose wife and two children were killed after the Iranian military accidentally shot down the passenger plane they were traveling in shortly after it ...

January 11, 2020

Iran’s Government Should Allow People to Mourn, Protest Without Threat of Violence

January 11, 2020 – The Iranian people should be allowed to exercise their constitutional right to peaceful assembly without the threat of violence, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) after crowds that had gathered ...

December 24, 2019

Australian, French Academics Call for Christmas Eve Hunger Strike

December 24, 2019 -- Two female academics held in Tehran’s Evin Prison called for international solidarity as they announced that they would be denying food and water indefinitely as of Christmas Eve. Australian academic Kylie Moore-Gilbert and Iranian-born ...

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    Civil Rights Defender Farhad Meysami at Risk of Death in Iranian Prison
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    Jailed Iranian Director Jafar Panahi Hunger Strikes Against "Hostage-Taking"
    February 2, 2023
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