In addition to renowned filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof, three members of the Iranian Writers Association (IWA)—Baktash Abtin, Reza Khandan Mahabadi and Keyvan ...
Peaceful Activists in Mashhad’s Vakilabad Prison Left Vulnerable to Infection One week after judicial officials announced they had released tens of thousands of prisoners to ...
UN Press Release GENEVA (9 March 2020) – Individuals detained in Iranian detention facilities are suffering from serious human rights violations and ...
56,000 Temporarily Freed from Iran's Overcrowded Prisons Amid Coronavirus Outbreak The families of eight conservationists imprisoned in Iran on trumped-up charges have called on Iranian Judiciary ...
Tehran Prison Lacks Medicines, Sanitary Supplies as Some Inmates Exhibit “Severe” Cold Symptoms February 28, 2020 - The Center for Human Rights in Iran ...
February 10, 2020 – Detainees held in Iran since the November 2019 street protests—including juveniles—are being beaten, forced to make self-incriminating statements ...
Victim Was Caregiver of Mother, and Brother With Down Syndrome The family of Mohammad Hashamdar, who was killed by a bullet ...
The mother of Alireza Anjavi, who died after being shot in the forehead on November 16, 2019, as the authorities repressed protests ...
Azar Mirzapour Zahabi, a 48-year-old nurse and mother of four, was killed by a bullet to the heart in the Golshahr district ...
Sixteen mothers whose children were killed amid violent state crackdowns on street protests have called for Iranians to observe a minute of ...
December 16, 2019 -- A coalition of international human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran has ...
Shahnaz Akmali Summoned to Jail After Visiting Fellow Victim’s Family Less than a month after hundreds of people were killed in the Iranian authorities’ ...
Detainees Punished for Complaining That They Were Forced to Make False Statements, Says Lawyer Iranian authorities are refusing to transfer imprisoned conservationist Sam Rajabi to the hospital to treat a serious medical condition, and are continuing to ...
Family of Bystander Killed During Protests Demands Answers Reports of the shooting deaths of bystanders not involved in the recent protests in Iran ...
Victim Hamid Taheri's Relatives Forced to Sign "Pledge of Silence" Hospital authorities in the city of Islamshahr, Tehran Province, transferred the body of ...
Foreign Policy Chief Urges Iran to Hold Perpetrators of Protest Deaths Accountable, Provide Detainees Due Process December 10, 2019 - The EU should lead calls for the UN to investigate Iranian state forces' use of lethal ...
Women and Girls in Iran Are Unprotected from Many Forms of Violence November 25 marks the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women The UN states: “Violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread, persistent ...
*This article was updated with additional details on November 25. Early Tally Indicates at Least 4,000 Arrests as Concerns Mount for Detainees Smeared by State Media as “Rioters” In the wake of preliminary reports suggesting that thousands ...
Javaid Rehman, the special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, joined ...
November 19, 2019—The authorities’ use of excessive force against protestors in Iran, which has included the use of live ammunition and has resulted in dozens of deaths, is a blatant and unjustifiable violation of international law and must cease, the Center for Human Rights in ...
State security forces have used violent and deadly force to repress protests that erupted in dozens of cities in Iran during the evening of November 15, 2019, after ...
November 16 Marks the International Day for Tolerance The International Day for Tolerance, declared by UNESCO in 1995, is observed each year on ...
Complaint: Authorities Should Investigate Last Known Person Who Saw Levinson Before His Disappearance, American Citizen Dawud Salahuddin No Mention of Statement or Findings by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence Organization in Case Files The Iran-based ...
Fate of Detainees Unclear Despite Intervention by Supreme Leader Nearly two years after they were first detained in Tehran, eight conservationists have been charged with “cooperation with U.S. and Israeli enemy states against the Islamic Republic of Iran for the ...
U.S. Government Should Establish Viable Channel to Facilitate Permissible Trade to Iran Despite humanitarian exemptions, U.S. economic sanctions on Iran are ...
