…takes a stand” Imprisoned human rights activist Narges Mohammadi and other cellmates have displayed symptoms of the coronavirus during the past week in Zanjan Prison, 210 miles west of Tehran,… ...
At least five human rights attorneys are currently imprisoned in Iran under trumped-up charges, including one who is currently being held incommunicado… ...
June 18, 2020 — Last summer, the actress and human rights activist Nazanin Boniadi visited the Northern french cities of Calais and Dunkirk where she met asylum seekers from around… ...
Fears that the ethnic Kurdish Iranian political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian (also spelled Zeynab) could have contracted COVID-19 in Tehran Province’s Gharchak Prison have deeply worried her family, the Center for… ...
May 12, 2020 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) today published an unofficial Persian translation of the UN’s recent guidance note and accompanying press release on… ...
Scholar Kylie Moore-Gilbert Kept in Bathroom-Like Temporary Holding Cell Since 2018 May 7, 2020 – A British-Australian academic held in isolation in Iran since September 2018, Kylie Moore-Gilbert, has… ...
Together We Can Help This Giving Tuesday Now, please support our campaign to save the lives of Iranians gravely endangered by the government’s disregard for COVID-19 safety measures. All donations… ...
Three Relatives of Iranian Dissidents Arbitrarily Prosecuted in One Month Amid a renewed crackdown on peaceful criticism of Iranian state policies, the son of imprisoned filmmaker and journalist Mohammad Nourizad… ...
Iranian Judiciary Contiguously Targeting Dissidents’ Family Members Iran’s Appeals Court upheld a one-year prison sentence against novelist Hamid Namjoo for the content of his writings and because he published work… ...
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… ...
April 17, 2020 – UN human rights experts today called on Iran to expand its temporary release of thousands of detainees to include prisoners of conscience and dual and foreign… ...
Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, Who Could Authorize Her Release, Has Been Unreachable Detained teenage Instagram celebrity Fatemeh Khishvand is currently on a ventilator at Sina Hospital in Tehran after contracting COVID-19… ...
