Iran Ramps Up Violence and Repression Against Women and Girls Amid Regional Tensions
April 17, 2024 – The Iranian government’s escalating violence and repression against women and girls who refuse to comply with the state’s compulsory ...
April 17, 2024 – The Iranian government’s escalating violence and repression against women and girls who refuse to comply with the state’s compulsory ...
Son Was Executed After Torture, Forced “Confessions” and Sham Trial April 1, 2024 – The ongoing state persecution of Mashallah Karami, whose son was unlawfully executed following protests that erupted across Iran in September 2022, epitomizes a wider campaign of ...
Mission Calls on States to Prosecute Responsible Officials Under Universal Jurisdiction Crimes Against Humanity: State Atrocities in Iran Revealed in First Report of UN Fact-Finding ...
Peaceful Protesters Subjected to Excessive Force, Torture, Rape, and Arbitrary Executions Call to Action: UN Human Rights Council Members Urged to Extend Fact-Finding Mission and Special Rapporteur Mandates March 8, 2024 – Grave human rights violations perpetrated by the government ...
Case Reflects Severe Rights Violations Faced by Ethnic Minorities in Iran “For a long time after his release, [due to the torture] he forgot ...
Medical Examiner: Osman Esmaili “Could Not Withstand Further Imprisonment” Sentenced to Prison After “Two-Hour Trial,” Denied Counsel of Choice February 8, 2024 – Iranian authorities ...
Visiting Before Release of UN Fact-Finding Mission’s First Report on State Atrocities Detrimental to Mandate Islamic Republic Has Refused to Cooperate with Fact-Finding Mission, ...
January 23, 2024 — The execution today of 23-year-old street protester Mohammad Ghobadlou is a stark reminder of the Islamic Republic ...
Relentless Campaign of Repression Seeks to Quash “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement Jan 16, 2024 – Three women prisoners of conscience in Iran, Nobel ...
Toomaj Salehi Re-Arrested After Publicly Disclosing Plans to Sue State Requires Medical Treatment for Injuries Sustained in Prison December 5, 2023 – The arbitrary ...
November 17, 2023 – An arbitrarily detained woman, facing unjust imprisonment in Iran, has provided a detailed account of her violent abduction amid ...
Niloufar Hamedi Gets 13 Years Behind Bars and Elahe Mohammadi 12 Years Iranian Government Moves to Crush “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement On All Fronts October ...
International Community Should Call for an End to Gender Apartheid in Iran September 20, 2023 – On the anniversary week of the eruption of ...
Child Soldiers Used to Assist State Security Forces Relatives of Victims of State Violence, Activists Threatened to Refrain from Protesting Prisoners of ...
Keywan Karimi The harsh judgment against filmmaker Keywan Karimi for “insulting the sacred” and “illegitimate relations” is baseless and ...
Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Moosavi Forced Confessions Used as Primary Evidence in Convictions October 14, 2015—A Tehran ...
Banning of Films Continues under Rouhani Administration Despite repeated statements made by President Rouhani ...
UPDATE: (19 April 2009) Roxana Saberi was sentenced to 8 years in prison in Tehran on charges of espionage. (18 April 2009) The Iranian government should immediately rescind charges against Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi and release her from prison or prosecute her in a public trail ...