Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali and his wife, Vida Mehran-nia. Shortly before Iranian officials took the Swedish and other foreign ambassadors on a staged tour of Evin Prison on ...
Children without state-issued identification documents mostly from Iran’s underdeveloped border provinces are being denied education in Iran, attorney Osman Mozayan told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Iran only provides education to citizens and establishes citizenship based on the father’s nationality. “The ...
State authorities in Iran have blocked access to websites belonging to the Sufi Gonabadi Order to erase the religious minority’s presence on cyberspace, their lawyer told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “Tyrannical totalitarian regimes ban ...
President Hassan Rouhani’s Telecommunications Minister Mahmoud Vaezi has refuted criticism that he has been unwilling to block online content deemed immoral by state authorities and has pledged to “get rid of” foreign-based social media networks despite previous failed attempts. At the same time, the ...
The Holy Savior Cathedral church in Isfahan, Iran. Judge Mashallah Ahmadzadeh on Sentencing Spree Since June 2017 July 20, 2017—The Iranian authorities must immediately halt the disturbing trend of arrests and imprisonment of Christians, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a ...
Religious conservatives in Iran began opposing the Rouhani government's plan to implement the UNESCO ...
Member of Parliament Parvaneh Salashouri (left) and human rights lawyer Farideh Gheirat (right). An amendment proposed by the Iranian Parliament’s Women’s Block to the country’s Passport Law...
Cartoonist Touka Neyastani depicts the debate over whether women should ...
More than two years after his arrest and torture by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), reformist journalist Farzad Pourmoradi, a supporter of President Hassan Rouhani, has been acquitted of the charges laid against him. In a post on his ...
Xiyue Wang, a graduate student in history at Princeton University, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in Iran on unspecified ...
Human rights activist Shahnaz Akmali was summoned to court for unspecified charges on the same day the head of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry—the authority that initially arrested her—announced his opposition to the arrests of peaceful activists. Akmali became an ...
The growing number of women refusing to cover their hair while driving in Iran, especially during the hot summer months, has resulted in renewed threats of arrests for violations of the country’s mandatory hijab law. However, the hijab—the ...
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