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

September 24, 2026 — The September 2026 report of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran documents a major escalation in the Iranian authorities’ repression ...

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 ...

At least 60 Teachers Arrested, Prosecuted, or Imprisoned as Authorities Seek to Dismantle One of Iran’s Most Influential Civic Groups July 28, 2026 — Since crushing the nationwide January 2026 ...

July 16, 2026 — Iranian authorities have launched a sweeping crackdown on university campuses, subjecting students to arbitrary arrests, imprisonment, expulsions, suspensions, and politically ...

June 18, 2026 — As domestic repression intensifies across Iran, authorities have increasingly turned their attention to the country’s independent legal community. In just the first five months of 2026 ...

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 ...

March 31, 2026 — One month since the outbreak of the war in Iran, Islamic Republic security forces are carrying out a sweeping new wave of arbitrary arrests across the country. At least 1,500 ...

March 19, 2026 — On the morning of March 19, three young men—Saleh Mohammadi, 19, Saeed Davoudi, 21, and Mehdi Ghasemi—who were all arrested during the January protests in Iran, were publicly hanged ...

February 25, 2026 — Nearly two months after the Iranian government’s use of military-grade weapons, snipers, and shoot-to-kill orders resulted in the deaths of thousands of protesters across Iran, the ...

February 12, 2026 — At least 216 children were killed during the Islamic Republic’s brutal crackdown on protesters in January 2026, when Iranian security forces unleashed live ammunition, ...

January 23, 2026 — Nearly one month after the outbreak of nationwide protests across Iran that were crushed by state security forces at a cost of over 14,000 dead, Iranian authorities have intensified ...