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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The images and data broadcast by international media do not represent even one percent of the reality, because the information simply does not reach them.” January 12, 2026 — The following interview ...

April 6, 2023 – The international community, including music and arts institutions as well as freedom of speech and expression organizations, should urgently call for the release from arbitrary ...

August 12, 2025 — Far from the international spotlight and outside Iran’s major urban centers, a brutal state crackdown is unfolding in the country’s provincial towns. The Center for Human Rights in ...

(See end of article for publicly reported femicide cases in Iran in 2024.) January 6, 2025—Killed by husbands or fathers for fleeing an abusive forced marriage, seeking a divorce, or allegedly ...