30+ Rights Groups Sound Alarm Over Grave Risks to Detainees in Iran Amid Blackout
January 14, 2025 — The Center for Human Rights in Iran has joined 34 other human rights organizations in urgently raising the alarm ...
Unfair Trials
Exclusive Interview: Physician Treating Protesters in Iran Describes Mass Casualties, Overwhelmed Hospitals
“The images and data broadcast by international media do not represent even one percent of the reality, because the information simply does not reach them.” January 12, 2026 — ...
Grave Concern That State Massacre of Protesters is Underway in Iran Amid Internet Blackout
Internet Shutdown Preventing Critical Info on Killings from Reaching World January 9, 2026—The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) expresses grave and urgent concern for ...
Iranian Authorities Intensify Crackdown on Protests with Live Fire, Arbitrary Arrests, and Attacks on Hospitals
More Than 27 Civilians Killed, including Six Children, Over 2000 Arrested Authorities' Crackdown Again Amounts to Crimes Against Humanity January 6, 2025 — Iranian authorities have sharply escalated ...
UN: Iran Must Stop Execution of 67-Year-Old Iranian Woman
"What we see here is a mockery of justice that falls far short of the most basic international standards.” At least 52 ...
Grave Concerns Over Detainees’ Safety Following Arrests at Slain Lawyer’s Memorial
39 Detained, Access to Lawyers and Families Denied, Brutal Interrogations Underway December 17, 2025 — Concerns are intensifying over the safety, health, and legal rights of at ...
Narges Mohammadi and other Activists Violently Arrested at Memorial Service for Slain Lawyer
Eyewitness: “Arrests were carried out with severe violence” Streets Blocked, Crowd Prevents Arrest of Slain Lawyer’s Brother ...
Over 80 Iranian Lawyers Demand Transparency in Suspicious Death of Human Rights Lawyer Khosro Alikordi
Brother of Alikordi Summoned, Authorities Warn Activists Not to Give Any Speeches at Funeral December 11, 2025 — A group of 81 lawyers, all inside Iran, have ...
UN: Iran Must Halt Execution of Woman Survivor of Child Marriage and Abuse
“Her execution would constitute a grave violation of international human rights law” December 3, 2025 — Top UN human rights experts have urgently ...
Eight Political Prisoners at Grave Risk of Execution as Death Sentences Upheld
At least 42 Political Prisoners Currently Sentenced to Death in Iran Case of Ehsan Faridi, 22, Highlights Gross Abuses by Interrogators and Judicial Officials November 25, 2025 — ...
Victim of Child Marriage Faces Execution in Iran
Execution Scheduled for December Unless $90K Paid for Killing Abusive Husband Denied Lawyer During Interrogation, Coerced into Confession Despite Illiteracy November 13, 2025 — At only 12 years ...
Writers and Scholars Arrested and Held Incommunicado in Iran
Whereabouts Unknown, No Contact with Families or Lawyers Iranian Authorities' Attack on Intellectuals Meant to Silence Any Independent Thought November 6, 2025 — In a coordinated operation targeting ...
Iran Shuts Down Oldest NGO Supporting Vulnerable Children, Detains Founder
NGO Leader Held Without Charge, Whereabouts Unknown, Denied Access to Family and Lawyer State’s Intensifying Assault on Civil Society Will Worsen Crisis Facing Iran’s Children November 3, 2025 ...
UN: Iran’s Surge in Unlawful Executions May Amount to Crimes Against Humanity
November 3, 2025 — The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran has sounded the alarm over the serious deterioration of the human rights situation in ...
Iran’s Rappers: Voices of Dissent, Targets of the State
Artists Face Arrests, Torture, Forced Confessions, Prison October 27, 2025 — In Iran, rap music has become a powerful and peaceful form of dissent, with many rappers ...
Political Prisoner’s Hunger Strike Highlights Plight of Religious and Political Prisoners in Iran
Nasim Simiyari Protests Iran’s Brutal Persecution of Baha’is, Demands Release of Fariba Kamalabadi October 23, 2025 — In Iran, where defendants are convicted after ...
Iran’s New Tactics to Crush Mandatory Hijab Resistance: Business Raids and Surveillance
Closures, Undercover Agents, and Prosecutions Replace Street Patrols in New Phase of Mandatory Hijab Enforcement October 15, 2025 — The battle over the mandatory hijab in Iran ...
Iran’s Qarchak Prison: A Place of Death That Must Be Closed
Three Women Prisoners Dead in Ten Days After Denial of Medical Care October 7, 2025 — In the span of just over a week, three ...
Three Years After Bloody Friday, Iran Shields Commanders Behind the Massacre of Over 100 Protesters
"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 ...
45 Women Political Prisoners in Iran Blame Authorities for Death of Somayeh Rashidi After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care
Woman Political Prisoner in Iran Is Dead After Deliberate Denial of Medical Care Many Others At Risk Due to Systematic Denial of Medical Care ...
Wave of Unlawful Arrests Targets Iran’s Minority Children
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 — ...
Lives at Risk: An Urgent Call from Inside Evin Prison
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
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
‘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 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 ...