Continued Refusal to Provide Proper Medical Care Risks More Prisoner Deaths
March 3, 2022 - The continued denial of proper medical treatment to ailing political and civil rights activists in Iran is setting the stage for deliberate crimes against the many political prisoners in the country,
Denial of Medical Treatment for Ailing Political Prisoners in Iran Aimed at Crushing Dissent
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Unprecedented Lawsuit Filed Against Supreme Leader, Top Iranian Officials
Complaint Alleges Gross Negligence in Government’s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
Lawyers Who Filed the Complaint are Facing Prison Time
Two lawyers in Iran, Arash Keykhosravi and Mohammad Reza Faghihi, filed an official complaint against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and 18 other state officials on March 6,
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Interview: Rights Lawyer Turned Political Prisoners Condemns “Shameful” Acts Against Lawyers in Iran
Defense attorney Amirsalar Davoudi was imprisoned in Iran for running a social media channel that provided information to lawyers.
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Civil Disobedience: Rights Defender Narges Mohammadi Resists Prison Summons
Growing Civil Society Movement Refuses to Accept Unlawful Rights Violations
Longtime human rights defender and former prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi is peacefully refusing to report to prison in Tehran to serve an eight-year sentence that was issued against her after a five-minute trial.
She announced the
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Activists Urge UN Rep to Meet Them During Trip to Iran
Government’s Refusal to Allow UN Human Rights Experts into Country Condemned
May 12, 2022 -- A group of prominent civil rights activists in Iran has called on UN representative Alena Douhan, who will be visiting Iran shortly to assess the negative impact of sanctions on the country, to meet
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Suspicious Deaths of Released Protesters in Iran Should be Investigated by UN
Credible Evidence Challenges Iranian Authorities’ Claims of “Suicides”
Families Describe Visibly Tortured Bodies, Fabricated Evidence, Forced Quick Burials
January 19, 2023 – The UN Fact-Finding Mission should investigate the suspicious deaths of a number of recently released detained protesters, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said
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Children’s Rights Advocates, Mainly Women, Targeted in Crackdown on Anti-State Protests in Iran
Women Aiding Vulnerable Children Detained As State Broadens Efforts to Crush Movement for Change
February 1, 2023 – Women who have devoted their lives to aiding underprivileged and at-risk youth in Iran have come under increasing attack by the Iranian government in its violent↧
Analysis: Khamenei’s “Pardon” Is a Public Relations Stunt That Cedes No Ground to the Protesters
Previous Pardons Have Not Been Followed by Actual Prisoner Releases
Detained Protesters Assumed Guilty, Must “Apologize” First
February 8, 2023 - The announced pardons and sentence reductions for tens of thousands of people charged or prosecuted for taking part in the protests that have swept Iran over the last
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Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Husband Ordered to Report to Prison
Blatant Attempt to Silence Sotoudeh for Outspoken Support for Protesters
February 14, 2023 – The human rights activist Reza Khandan, who is the husband of the prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, has been summoned to report to prison within 30 days to begin serving a six-year
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Journalists Denied Release from Prison Amid Supreme Leader’s “Pardon” PR Ploy
More than a month has passed since the Iranian government issued a “pardon” for an unverified number of prisoners and detainees following the arrests of tens of thousands of people across the country amid anti-state protests that began in September 2022.
As CHRI has noted, the announced pardons and
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