Iran Protests: Sanandaj Becomes Latest Killing Zone Amid Worsening State Violence
Oil Workers Wage Strikes in Solidarity with Nationwide Anti-State Demonstrations October 10, 2022 – The government in ...
Oil Workers Wage Strikes in Solidarity with Nationwide Anti-State Demonstrations October 10, 2022 – The government in ...
Grave Concerns for Torture, Killings of Political Prisoners Amid Mass Arrests October 6, 2022 – Less than three weeks after ...
Students Trapped, Beaten, Tear Gassed, Taken to Unknown Locations Fears of Worsening Violence as Protests Spread ...
Threat of Mass Deaths Grows as Government Seeks to Squash Protests September 26, 2022—With the government of Iran signaling it intends to silence the protests across Iran that are now well into their second ...
Now Companies Must Make Tech Products Available and U.S. Government Must Encourage Them September 26, 2022—Today, the ...
World Leaders Must Call on Iranian Officials to Immediately Cease Use of Lethal Force, Allow Peaceful Protest September 21, ...
Mahsa Amini’s Death in State Custody Should be Investigated as Murder World Must Condemn Violent Repression of ...
Protesters in Tehran Call for “Death to the Oppressor” September 16, 2022 – The death of Mahsa ...
Authorities in Iran Intentionally Deny Critical Medical Attention to Political Prisoners September 7, 2022 – A political ...
The international community should loudly and publicly condemn the blatantly unlawful death sentences issued without due process against two LGBTQ activists in West Azerbaijan Province, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a statement today ...
*Editor's Note: Sepideh Rashnoo was released on bail on August 30, 2022, while she awaits her trial. August 23, 2022 – Charges filed against a woman in Iran, Sepideh Rashnoo, after she was ...
Government of Iran Has Long Targeted its Critics Abroad for Assassination August 15, 2022 – The heinous attack in New York on the author Salman Rushdie, in which a knifeman inflicted life-threatening injuries, stems ...
Prioritizing human rights represents the most effective means for the U.S. to influence Iranian state behavior and address the Islamic Republic’s destabilizing activities, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said in a new Q&A, “Prioritizing Human Rights in Iran: A ...
August 5, 2022 – Increasing arbitrary arrests of members of the persecuted Baha’i faith in Iran, and an intensifying government-sponsored campaign of destruction and confiscation of their properties should be internationally condemned, said ...
Conviction Opens Door for More Trials Against Officials Accused of Atrocities July 14, 2022 -- After 92 ...
Less than a month after the intelligence chief of the Iranian military’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was replaced, a crackdown on dissent is being ramped up in the country ...
Treaty Encourages Hostage-Taking, Would Return Convicted Terrorist to Iran July 5, 2022 – More than 400 leading ...
Iranian Court Refers to France as an “Enemy Government” June 28, 2022 – Countries negotiating with Iran over its ...
Same Efforts Applied to Nuclear Deal Can and Should Be Given to Human Rights President Biden Has Also Remained ...
Supreme Leader’s COVID Vaccine Ban Resulted in Thousands of Unnecessary Deaths June 22, 2022 – For ...
Eight Prisoners Could Soon See Their Fingers Cut Off June 15, 2022 – In violation ...
Repression of Civil Society Harms U.S. Security Interests June 14, 2022— President Biden’s silence so far on ...
June 9, 2022 — In a joint statement released today, human rights organizations ARTICLE 19, Access Now, and ...
Open Letter Condemns Iran’s “Brutal Repression” of Trade Unions and Labor Activists June 2, 2022—In an open letter to the delegates at the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 110th Session of the ...
May 26, 2022 – While millions of Iranians are struggling to make ends meet, the Iranian government has shut down the country’s oldest and largest independent non-governmental organization (NGO) focused on poverty alleviation, ...