With Iran’s new academic year, beginning on September 23, 2021, just around the corner, teachers have been protesting in front of Parliament and the Plan and Budget Organization in Tehran to ...
Video footage showing a policeman unlawfully shooting a suspect in the Mehrshahr district of Karaj, a city west of Tehran, was met with widespread condemnation on social media networks by Persian speakers ...
By the age of eleven, “Raha” already had seven children. Married off to a man five times her age, she was in poor health when her situation was accidentally ...
Hacked footage from security cameras in Iran’s Evin Prison and the publication of some of the prison’s documents published online by a group calling itself “Edalat-e Ali” (Ali's Justice) has provided ...
Investigation Marked by Torture, Witness Tampering and Contradictions August 26, 2021—The refusal by Iran’s Supreme Court to allow a judicial review of the 25-year prison sentence for Vahid Afkari, the brother of ...
Agents Confiscate Personal Security Cameras to Hide Evidence of Unlawful Raid State security agents carried out search operations in the homes of two detained human rights lawyers, Arash Keykhosravi and Mohammad ...
Lawyer: The Ruling against Vahid Afkari had “24 Contradictions and 3 Lies” Despite Inconsistencies and Torture, Supreme Court Refuses to Review 25-year Prison Sentence Nearly a year after the unlawful execution of wrestling champion ...
Persecution and Discrimination by State and Society Pervades Daily Life August 26, 2021—In a new LGBTQ Fact Sheet published today by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), the extreme rights ...
U.S. Leadership on Global Pandemic Response Should Not Be Tied to Politics Iranian American Groups Call for Aid to “Brave and Resilient” Iranian People August 18, 2021 – A coalition of major Iranian American organizations ...
Six Arbitrarily Detained as State Tries to Block Attempt to Seek Justice August 17, 2021—The unlawful arrests of six prominent lawyers and civil rights activists in Tehran as they were preparing to file ...
Iran Refusing COVAX Offers as Infections, Deaths Surge Biden Administration Should Include Iran in Global Vaccination Campaign August 11, 2021–Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei should immediately lift his ban on foreign COVID-19 vaccines, ...
The historic trial against Nouri, which will hear testimonies from dozens of witnesses in 72 sessions, will be the first time that one of the worst crimes committed in the Islamic Republic of Iran will be thoroughly examined and exposed ...