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February 16, 2021

Critically Ill Political Prisoner Should be Freed, Receive Life-Saving Medical Care

Iran Must End Systematic Denial of Healthcare in Prisons February 16, 2021 – Prisoner of conscience Behnam Mahjoubi could die if he is not provided the immediate and comprehensive medical treatment that he was initially denied, the Center ...

April 23, 2020

COVID-19 Poses Extreme Danger to Arbitrarily Jailed Conservationists, Dual Nationals

Infected Wildlife Conservationist Sam Rajabi Refused Hospitalization, Cellmates Untested American Citizen Siamak Namazi Held in Same “Cell and Bunk Bed Row” as Rajabi Prisoners Held on Politically Motivated Charges Excluded from Reported Prisoner Releases April 23, 2020 ...

February 10, 2020

Detained Protestors in Iran: Beaten, Tortured, Forced to “Confess”

February 10, 2020 – Detainees held in Iran since the November 2019 street protests—including juveniles—are being beaten, forced to make self-incriminating statements and held in inhumane incarceration conditions, and their families are not being informed of their ...

February 14, 2019

Sugar Mill Workers Call for International Action to Free Detained Colleagues Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Qoliyan

Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Qoliyan Pressured to Retract Torture Allegations A union representing workers of the Haft Tappeh sugar mill in the Iranian city of Shush, Khuzestan Province, has called on individuals and international organizations to ...

October 30, 2018

UN Expert Says Human Rights Should Be at the Heart of the Response to Challenges Faced in Iran

Javaid Rehman was appointed as the third Special Rapporteur ...

October 4, 2018

Fact Sheets and Infographics on Human Rights in Iran

These fact sheets and infographics have been produced by the Center for Human Rights in Iran on issues including deaths of political prisoners in state custody, disability rights in Iran and a general overview of the human ...

October 3, 2018

120 Academics and Activists Join UN in Calling on Iran to Free Princeton Scholar Xiyue Wang

Xiyue Wang (right) with his son and wife. A group of 120 academics and human rights activists of Iranian origin have called on Iran to free imprisoned American scholar Xiyue ...

August 22, 2018

60 European MPs Call on President Rouhani to Work For Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Release

Iranian defense attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh was detained on June 13, 2018, and is facing several national security charges for her peaceful defense of her clients in the Iranian judicial system. On ...

June 18, 2018

UN Rights Experts: Iran Must Halt Execution of Ramin Hossein Panahi

GENEVA, UN (18 June 2018) – UN human rights experts* have made a fresh call to Iran to annul the death sentence imposed on Iranian Kurd Ramin Hossein Panahi, amid reports that ...

April 4, 2018

Iran’s Categorization of Autism As a “Special Disease” Is a Double-Edged Sword for Persons With Disabilities

The Iranian Parliament’s recognition of autism as a “special disease” will have positive and negative consequences for persons living with the disability in Iran according to an Iranian disability rights advocate. “Of course the steps taken ...

February 23, 2018

UN Experts: Iran’s Spying Charges Against Wildlife Activists “Hard to Fathom”

Iranian Canadian academic Kavous Seyed-Emami died in state custody in Tehran's Evin Prison on ...

March 13, 2014

Joint Letter on Iran to the Human Rights Council

Support Resolution to Renew the Mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran. March 12, 2014 To: Member States of the Human Rights Council Your Excellency, We, the undersigned human rights and civil ...

November 21, 2011

UN Resolution Ramps Up Cross-Regional International Pressure on Iran’s Human Rights Crisis

(21 November 2011) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomed the resolution concerning Iran’s grave human rights violations, adopted today by the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (GA). “We embrace the adoption of this resolution and encourage UN member states ...

October 18, 2011

UN Human Rights Committee Sharply Criticized Increasing Flogging Sentences in Iran

As flogging sentences issued and carried out by Iranian judges and judicial authorities are on the rise, during a meeting of the UN Human Rights Committee today in which the Iranian government’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is under ...

September 26, 2011

Weekly Rights Podcast 37

In this week’s Weekly Rights Podcast: The Campaign speaks out about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to the UN General Assembly in New York; American hikers Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal are released from prison; seven documentary filmmakers are arrested and charged with espionage on ...

February 2, 2011

UN experts call for a moratorium on death penalty in the Islamic Republic of Iran

GENEVA (2 February 2011) – Two UN independent experts warned Tuesday that there has been a dramatic surge in death sentences in the Islamic Republic of Iran carried out in the absence of internationally recognized safeguards, despite numerous calls by the UN to immediately halt ...

November 23, 2010

UN human rights chief concerned by Iranian crackdown on human rights defenders

GENEVA – The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on Tuesday expressed renewed concern for the fate of human rights defenders in Iran, particularly Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh who was on hunger strike for several weeks in Tehran’s Evin Prison. “As we approach international Human ...

October 15, 2010

Report of the Secretary General on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran – 2010

The situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran – Report of the Secretary-General I. Introduction II. Thematic issues III. Cooperation with international human rights mechanisms and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights IV. Conclusions and recommendations ...

November 16, 2009

109 Human Rights Groups Ask United Nations to Condemn Human Rights Violations in Iran

(16 November 2009) New York – Over one hundred independent human rights and civil society organizations from around the world have urged delegations to the United Nations to support a resolution in the General Assembly condemning human rights violations in the Islamic Republic of Iran ...

November 16, 2009

Letter to Members of the United Nations on Human Rights in Iran – November 2009

10. Association for Human Rights Legal Aid (Egypt) 11. Association for Women’s Rights in Development ...

October 30, 2008

Resolution on the Human Rights Situation in Iran

English, Passed by Third Committee 21 November 2008, Adopted by General Assembly 18 December 2008 ...

October 1, 2008

Report of the Secretary-General on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

English, Issued 1 October 2008 ...

June 6, 2008

Groups Urge Iran to Cooperate with UN Rights Bodies

(Geneva, 6 June 2008) – The Iranian government should cooperate with United Nations human rights bodies in order to address the ongoing human rights abuses in the country, a group of international human rights organizations said today. The Iranian government’s refusal to implement recommendations issued by ...

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    February 1, 2023
  • Iran: Families of Detained and Killed Protesters Beaten, Threatened to Stay Silent
    Iran: Families of Detained and Killed Protesters Beaten, Threatened to Stay Silent
    January 25, 2023
  • Suspicious Deaths of Released Protesters in Iran Should be Investigated by UN
    Suspicious Deaths of Released Protesters in Iran Should be Investigated by UN
    January 19, 2023
  • Governments Worldwide Should Recall Ambassadors from Iran
    Governments Worldwide Should Recall Ambassadors from Iran
    January 12, 2023
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    Iran Protests: At Least 44 Defense Attorneys Arrested Since September
    January 10, 2023
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    December 20, 2022
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    Iran’s Courts Using Death Penalty Charges to Crush Protests
    December 15, 2022
  • Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women
    Islamic Republic of Iran Expelled from UN Commission on the Status of Women
    December 14, 2022
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    Iran Protests: Children Killed and Tortured to Crush Dissent
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    Lynching in Iran: Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, Publicly Hanged in State-Sponsored Murder
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  • Executions in Iran: World Must Respond with Strong Action Against State Killings of Protesters
    Executions in Iran: World Must Respond with Strong Action Against State Killings of Protesters
    December 8, 2022
  • Iran Protests: Detained University Students Subjected to Sexual Assault, Disappearances
    Iran Protests: Detained University Students Subjected to Sexual Assault, Disappearances
    December 6, 2022
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