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Three Years After Bloody Friday, Iran Shields Commanders Behind the Massacre of Over 100 Protesters

Three Years After Bloody Friday, Iran Shields Commanders Behind the Massacre of Over 100 Protesters

September 30, 2025

"We Killed Them; Take Your Blood Money" Low-Level Officers Receive Light Sentences, Senior Officials Walk Free; Families of Victims Coerced into Silence and Denied Justice September 30, 2025 —Three ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

‘Bloody Saturday’ in Ghezel Hesar: Testimony from Political Prisoners Expose Brutal Assault and Executions by Iranian Authorities

‘Bloody Saturday’ in Ghezel Hesar: Testimony from Political Prisoners Expose Brutal Assault and Executions by Iranian Authorities

August 11, 2025

Firsthand letter reveals coordinated attack, beatings, and execution of two political prisoners: ‘We’ll kill every last one of you sons of whores!’ August 11, 2025 — The following letter, authored by a ...

Over 1,300 Activists Demand End to Iran’s Brutal Anti-Afghan Crackdown

Over 1,300 Activists Demand End to Iran’s Brutal Anti-Afghan Crackdown

August 5, 2025

“Deporting ‘illegal migrants’ is a euphemism for inhumane treatment of all migrants” Over 1.5 Million Afghans Forcibly Deported from Iran So Far in 2025 ...

14 Countries Condemn Iran’s Plots to ‘Kill, Kidnap and Harass’ Citizens Abroad

14 Countries Condemn Iran’s Plots to ‘Kill, Kidnap and Harass’ Citizens Abroad

August 1, 2025

Journalists, Dissidents, Jewish Citizens, and Officials Targeted by Intelligence Agencies August 1, 2025 — A group of 14 countries, including Canada, France, Germany, the ...

Iran: Proposed Cyber Bill Gives Authorities Sweeping New Powers to Block and Punish Online Content

Iran: Proposed Cyber Bill Gives Authorities Sweeping New Powers to Block and Punish Online Content

July 29, 2025

If Approved, Law Could Criminalize Any Content the Authorities Consider “False” July 29, 2025—A sweeping new bill currently under fast-track review by Iran’s parliament would grant the ...

UN Rights Chief Calls for Death Penalty Moratorium in Iran as Executions Skyrocket

UN Rights Chief Calls for Death Penalty Moratorium in Iran as Executions Skyrocket

July 28, 2025

At Least 48 People on Death Row, 12 at Imminent Risk of Execution “Proceedings consistently failed to meet due process and fair trial guarantees.” July 28, 2025 — In a ...

‘They Said My Body Would Be Dumped in a Lake’: Kurdish Political Prisoner Details Brutal Torture in Detention

‘They Said My Body Would Be Dumped in a Lake’: Kurdish Political Prisoner Details Brutal Torture in Detention

July 22, 2025

 “We haven’t registered your name anywhere as a prisoner. So when you die under interrogation, it’ll be easy to dump your body” July ...

Iran: Political Death Sentences Surge in Brutal Crackdown on Minorities

Iran: Political Death Sentences Surge in Brutal Crackdown on Minorities

July 16, 2025

Torture, Forced Confessions and Sham Trials Drive Deadly State Campaign Against Kurds and Arabs July 16, 2025 — The Iranian government is rapidly increasing its use of the death penalty as a political weapon to crush dissent, ...

Iran Forcibly Deports Nearly 600,000 Afghan Migrants Amid Post-War Crackdown

Iran Forcibly Deports Nearly 600,000 Afghan Migrants Amid Post-War Crackdown

July 9, 2025

Arrests and Deportations Follow Baseless Charges of Spying for Israel State Media Inciting Violence by Labeling Afghans and Other Minorities as Traitors July 9, 2025 — The ...

Firsthand Account from Evin Prisoners: Trapped Between Israel’s Unlawful Attacks and Iranian Authorities’ Shocking Abuses

Firsthand Account from Evin Prisoners: Trapped Between Israel’s Unlawful Attacks and Iranian Authorities’ Shocking Abuses

July 7, 2025

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Op-Ed: Iran Is Terrorizing Its Own Citizens. The World Needs to Respond.

Op-Ed: Iran Is Terrorizing Its Own Citizens. The World Needs to Respond.

July 4, 2025

This article was originally published in The New York Times July 4, 2025 By Karen Kramer, deputy director of the Center for Human Rights in ...

Iran Launches Sweeping Crackdown: Hundreds Detained, Executions Underway

Iran Launches Sweeping Crackdown: Hundreds Detained, Executions Underway

June 26, 2025

U.S. Must Confront Iran Over Human Rights Abuses in Upcoming Talks June 26, 2025—Hundreds of ordinary citizens, members of religious and ethnic minorities, activists, and others are ...

Lives of Prisoners in Iran in Immediate Danger

Lives of Prisoners in Iran in Immediate Danger

June 23, 2025

Global Leaders Must Demand Emergency Protections and Immediate Release of Political Prisoners Hundreds Being Arrested, Minorities Targeted, Judiciary Pledges to Fast-Track Cases June 23, 2025 — In the ...

Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran at Grave Risk Amid War

Political Prisoners on Death Row in Iran at Grave Risk Amid War

June 19, 2025

CHRI Warns Iran May Use Wartime Chaos to Execute Political Prisoners June 19, 2025 — As the war between Iran and Israel intensifies, the Center for Human ...

Iranian Political Prisoner in Evin Prison Urges Action to Protect Prisoners As War Escalates

Iranian Political Prisoner in Evin Prison Urges Action to Protect Prisoners As War Escalates

June 18, 2025

Legal Scholar Asks for Emergency Furloughs and Releases for Trapped Prisoners June 18, 2025 — From Tehran’s Evin Prison, woman political prisoner and international ...

Immediate Ceasefire Needed as Attacks on Civilians Intensify

Immediate Ceasefire Needed as Attacks on Civilians Intensify

June 16, 2025

Global Leaders Must Confront Growing Civilian Crisis with Urgency and Resolve June 16, 2025 — As the conflict between Iran and Israel escalates, the Center for Human ...

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