In a significant joint intervention at the UN Human Rights Council, 46 States condemned Iranian authorities' continued and ...

Hadi Ghaemi is an internationally recognized expert on Iran and human rights. In 2008, he founded the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), formerly the International Campaign for Human Rights in ...

October 1, 2026 — In a significant joint intervention at the UN Human Rights Council, 46 States condemned Iranian authorities' continued and escalating use of the ...

On August 6, 2026, UN experts called on Iranian authorities to immediately end the escalating use of arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, and executions ...

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 ...

Protesters are being tried collectively, in fast-tracked prosecutions that deny defendants individual trials and due process and end in death sentences and executions August 12, 2026 — In an ...

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 ...

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, ...

When Atena Daemi was growing up in Iran and attending school in a religious-conservative neighborhood in south Tehran, she noticed the many ways in which women were treated differently than men. Girls ...

August 21, 2024 – The deliberate denial of medical care to political prisoners, long a practice in the Islamic Republic of Iran, is increasing as the Iranian authorities intensify their punishment of ...

November 13, 2024 – As the fifth anniversary of the Islamic Republic’s bloody suppression of the country’s November 2019 mass protests approaches, not a single official has yet to be held accountable ...