Seven Rights Activists Denied Legal Counsel After Being Arrested by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry
Seven civil rights activists detained in Evin Prison since February 1, 2018, have been denied access to legal counsel, the Center ...
Seven civil rights activists detained in Evin Prison since February 1, 2018, have been denied access to legal counsel, the Center ...
Human rights advocate Narges Mohammadi, who recently marked her 1,000th ...
A protest by followers of Iran’s Muslim Sufi Gonabadi Order was attacked with police ...
Two lawyers representing the family of recently deceased Kavous Seyed-Emami have issued a statement countering the claims made in a short ...
Civil rights activist Parastou Forouhar is awaiting the results of her appeal against a six-year ...
The state crackdown that crushed the protests that erupted across Iran in late December 2017 was marked by violence and brutal disregard for the law. This CHRI briefing, based on interviews with released detainees, the families and attorneys of detainees, and journalists and human rights ...
Civil Rights Activists Also Detained February 16, 2018 – Attorney Mohammad Najafi has been held in detention in the Iranian city of Arak since January 15, ...
Some Detainees Allowed Brief Contact With Their Families Environmental activists who were detained at the same time as Kavous Seyed-Emami—who recently died in ...
Atena Daemi (right) with her mother Masoumeh Nemati. Masoumeh Nemati, the mother of imprisoned civil rights activist Atena Daemi, was attacked in front of Evin Prison in ...
In December and January of this year, Iranian women challenged the Islamic Republic’s compulsory hijab by waving their headscarves in public in various cities across Iran. They risked ...
Kavous Seyed Emami and his son, Ramin. Ramin Seyed-Emami Says Family is Seeking Independent Investigation February 14, 2018 -- The son of ...
Film Shows Detainee Visibly Agitated Before Disappearing From Camera’s View A lawyer representing the family of Kavous Seyed-Emami, who died under ...
“The state has become the main obstacle to the progress and liberation of the Iranian nation” Fifteen prominent Iranians including lawyers, directors and academics, ...
Contrary to Iranian official’s claims that all the university students who were detained in connection with Iran’s ...
Tehran Prosecutor Claims Autopsy Conducted But Still No Medical Examiner’s Report Iran’s deputy parliamentary speaker has stated that, based on a video produced by the Islamic ...
Sam Rajabi was detained on January 25, 2018. ...
Lawyers Point to Existing Laws and Lack of Enforcement as the Real Problem Some Iranian female lawmakers have called for immediate deliberations ...
Distraught Family Under Enormous Pressure to Bury Body Quickly and Not Speak Publicly About the Death February 12, 2018—The family ...
Some pollsters who were gauging views about Iran’s December 2017 protests have been arrested, according to Mohammad Aghasi, the head of the Iranian ...
February 11, 2018 -- It is with great sadness that we heard of the death of Ms. Asma ...
A third detainee, 63-year old Iranian-Canadian professor Kavous Seyed-Emami, has died in custody in Iran, barely 17 days after his arrest and while under interrogations ...
Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani, a member of the Gonabadi Dervish Sufi order, was expelled from Tehran’s Tarbiat Modares University on February ...
Twenty-five professors, lawyers and judges from around the world have called on the head of Iran's High Council for Human Rights, ...
Tens of thousands of people living in poverty in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan Province are being denied heating oil in the ...
Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee(left) and Atena Daemi Imprisoned civil rights activists Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and Atena Daemi...