Proposed bill would give intelligence agencies extraordinary powers to monitor citizens’ foreign contacts and impose prison terms of up to 30 years September 15, 2026 — New legislation proposed by ...

September 16, 2026 — Four years after the death in police custody of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini, which ignited Iran’s historic Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, those responsible for her death and the ...

September 16, 2026 — Four years after the death in police custody of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini, which ignited Iran’s historic Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, those responsible ...

September 16, 2026 — Four years after the death in police custody of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini, which ignited Iran’s historic Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, those responsible ...

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

At Least 22 Executed in Six Weeks as Secret Trials, Torture, and Forced Confessions Drive a Wave of Death Sentences Protesters, Women, and Juveniles Swept into a Fast-Tracked System of State ...

Huge Surge in Mass Arrests, Violence, and Enforced Disappearances of Kurd, Baluch, Arab, and Azeri Turk Citizens January 29, 2025 —The Iranian government has greatly escalated its brutal crackdown on ...

April 30, 2025 – On this International Labor Day, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) draws urgent attention to the plight of Iranian workers—the true backbone of the nation’s economy—who are ...

The recently released audio recording of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri sharply denouncing the mass execution of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 has highlighted disagreements among ...

Detained teenage Instagram celebrity Fatemeh Khishvand is currently on a ventilator at Sina Hospital in Tehran after contracting COVID-19 in state custody, while the judge who holds the power to free ...

March 19, 2024 – Unlawful deaths, extra-judicial executions, disproportionate lethal force, torture, rape, arbitrary arrests, and enforced disappearances were among the many rights violations ...

November 14, 2024—Six protesters involved in Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising in 2022 have been sentenced to death in a case marred by severe due process violations, torture-tainted confessions, ...