*Editor's Note: Sepideh Rashnoo was released on bail on August 30, 2022, while she awaits her trial. August 23, 2022 – Charges filed against a woman in Iran, Sepideh Rashnoo, after she was accosted by another woman who accused her ...
Two months after the inauguration of ultra-conservative President Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s state-run Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice organization has announced plans to launch religious college-level courses dedicated to the ...
July 19, 2021—In a joint statement released today, 10 human rights groups, including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, urged the international community to hold Iranian authorities accountable for their ongoing campaigns of persecution against Iranian ...
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 Iran (CHRI) today condemned in the strongest terms a foiled attempt by Iranian state agents ...
Sotoudeh and Three Other Activists Transferred Out of Evin’s Women’s Ward to Other Prisons As part of a new policy to isolate political prisoners by incarcerating them alongside common criminals at various prisons in Iran, three women convicted ...
*Update: On November 9, 2020, Branch 28 of the Supreme Court rejected a petition by Kord-Afshari’s lawyer, Hosein Taj, to review the 24-year prison sentence against Saba Kord-Afshari for her peaceful campaign against compulsory hijab. Based on Article 134 of the ...
At Least 12 People Sentenced to Prison Since January 2018 August 19, 2019 – Mounting arrests and prison sentences have not enabled Iran's government to achieve broad public compliance with the country's mandatory hijab law, or stem growing ...
Mojgan Keshavarz has been sentenced to 23.6 years in prison while Monireh Arabshahi and her daughter Yasaman Ariyani have each been sentenced to 16 years in prison for peacefully campaigning against Iran’s mandatory hijab law. All three women ...
Eight months after she was arrested for peacefully protesting Iran’s compulsory hijab law, Vida Movahedi was released from prison on May 26, 2019, her lawyer announced. “According to judicial authorities, the reduction of her punishment has ...
Civil rights activist Shima Babaei: “They said the hijab is the law and I must respect it. I told them it’s a bad law and I’m protesting against it in ...
A former campaign manager for President Hassan Rouhani is among the five activists who have been arrested by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the city of Estahban, Fars Province, since late February ...
Women celebrate their release from Gharchak Prison on March 12. The women who were detained at a women’s rights demonstration in front of the Iranian Labor Ministry in Tehran on March ...
Narges Hosseini smiles for the camera after being released on bail from Gharchak Prison in February 2018. Nasrin Sotoudeh: Iran’s Constitution Makes No Mention of the Mandatory Hijab A woman who was sentenced ...
Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. Iranian law is deliberating vague about the hijab to leave room for harsh sentencing against those who ...
February 28, 2018—Forty-five members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have sent an open letter to EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini urging her to call on Iranian officials to ...
In December and January of this year, Iranian women challenged the Islamic Republic’s compulsory hijab by waving their headscarves in public in various cities across Iran. They risked ...
