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  • 45 Women Political Prisoners in Iran Blame Authorities for Death of Somayeh Rashidi After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care
  • Wave of Unlawful Arrests Targets Iran’s Minority Children 
  • Lives at Risk: An Urgent Call from Inside Evin Prison
  • Iran Intensifies Crackdown on Teachers: Dozens Arrested, Fired, or Sentenced for Peaceful Union Activity
  • ‘They see us as targets’: Iran’s Brutal Repression of Journalistic Freedom

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    • 45 Women Political Prisoners in Iran Blame Authorities for Death of Somayeh Rashidi After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care
      45 Women Political Prisoners in Iran Blame Authorities for Death of Somayeh Rashidi After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care
      September 25, 2025
    • Wave of Unlawful Arrests Targets Iran’s Minority Children 
      Wave of Unlawful Arrests Targets Iran’s Minority Children 
      September 24, 2025
    • Lives at Risk: An Urgent Call from Inside Evin Prison
      Lives at Risk: An Urgent Call from Inside Evin Prison
      September 22, 2025
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    45 Women Political Prisoners in Iran Blame Authorities for Death of Somayeh Rashidi After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care

    45 Women Political Prisoners in Iran Blame Authorities for Death of Somayeh Rashidi After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care

    September 25, 2025

    Woman Political Prisoner in Iran Is Dead After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care Many Others At Risk Due to Systematic Denial of Medical Care in Iranian Prisons September 25, 2025 ...

    Wave of Unlawful Arrests Targets Iran’s Minority Children 

    Wave of Unlawful Arrests Targets Iran’s Minority Children 

    September 24, 2025

    Children Held Incommunicado, Without Any Access to Families or Lawyers “The number of children who have been arrested is higher than the cases reported.”  September 24, 2025 — The Islamic Republic is detaining ...

    Lives at Risk: An Urgent Call from Inside Evin Prison

    Lives at Risk: An Urgent Call from Inside Evin Prison

    September 22, 2025

    A letter from imprisoned Iranian lawyers urging immediate medical care for their colleague, Taher Naqavi, and an urgent appeal to the international legal community to intervene. September 22, 2025 ...

    Iran Intensifies Crackdown on Teachers: Dozens Arrested, Fired, or Sentenced for Peaceful Union Activity

    Iran Intensifies Crackdown on Teachers: Dozens Arrested, Fired, or Sentenced for Peaceful Union Activity

    September 17, 2025

    At Least 45 Teachers Unlawfully Targeted During Summer School Break “The judicial proceedings and security pressures against these teachers have been completely unlawful”  September 17, 2025 – Iranian authorities have intensified their ...

    ‘They see us as targets’: Iran’s Brutal Repression of Journalistic Freedom

    ‘They see us as targets’: Iran’s Brutal Repression of Journalistic Freedom

    September 3, 2025

    ‘Don’t step outside your house. You are going to be arrested again.’ September 3, 2025 — The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to be one of the most dangerous ...

    UN Human Rights Chief Demands Iran Cease All Executions

    UN Human Rights Chief Demands Iran Cease All Executions

    September 2, 2025

    UN Says Iran Uses the Death Penalty “as a Tool of State Intimidation” Condemns “Disproportionate targeting of ethnic minorities and migrants” In a forceful statement issued by the UN’s top human rights expert ...

    Iran’s Destruction of Graves from 1980s State Massacres Must Be Condemned

    Iran’s Destruction of Graves from 1980s State Massacres Must Be Condemned

    August 26, 2025

    Paving Over Mass Graves Destroys Evidence of Crimes against Humanity  August 26, 2025—The Iranian authorities’ destruction of the graves of victims of the state’s massacres of political prisoners during the 1980s—by building ...

    Scores of Political Prisoners Will Be Executed in Iran Without an International Outcry

    Scores of Political Prisoners Will Be Executed in Iran Without an International Outcry

    August 21, 2025

    Numerous Prisoners at Imminent Risk as International Attention is Focused Elsewhere Governments Must Demand a Halt to Iran’s State-Sanctioned Killing Editor's note: This article has been amended on August 21, 2025, to include ...

    Crushing Dissent Outside the Spotlight in Iran’s Provincial Cities

    Crushing Dissent Outside the Spotlight in Iran’s Provincial Cities

    August 12, 2025

    Arrests, Imprisonments, Death Sentences Surge in Small Towns Where Minorities Predominate State Agents, Judges, Prison Authorities Rain Down Abuse Without Fear of Scrutiny  August 12, 2025 — Far from the international spotlight and outside Iran’s major urban ...

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    Iran Protests: Voices from Iran (Updated)

    Our team at the Center for Human Rights in Iran is in daily contact with Iranians throughout the country. In this regularly updated post, we publish what we are hearing from Iranians from all walks of life.

    Images of Resistance: Photographers Who Documented Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement

    For the second anniversary of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom movement, the Center for Human Rights in Iran partnered with Middle East Images to present a powerful collection of photographs and interviews, highlighting the courage of the protesters who stood up to the Islamic Republic’s security forces and the photographers who documented their resistance. The photographs were taken by photojournalists who have faced state violence and detention for exposing the unwavering courage of Iran’s peaceful rights movement and the brutality of the Islamic Republic’s violent crackdown on protesters.

    Webinar: Day of the Endangered Lawyer Highlights Plight of Iranian Lawyers

    Co-organised by the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), the International Observatory of Lawyers (OIAD), the Geneva Bar Association (Ordre des Avocats de Genève), the event highlighted the plight of Iranian lawyers who face persecution for carrying out their professional duties to uphold human rights and the rule of law.

    Webinar: Legal Challenges Facing Iran’s “Woman Life Freedom” Movement

    Rights and Revolt: Three Lawyers Analyze the Legal Terrain of Iran's "Women Life Freedom" Movement In anticipation of the anniversary of Iran's transformative "Women, Life, Freedom" movement, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) hosted a webinar on September 12, 2023, featuring distinguished human rights

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