CHRI: Civilians Must Not Be Targets in Iran
CHRI Urges Compliance with International Law June 12, 2025 — In light of the outbreak of military hostilities in Iran, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urgently calls on ...
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UNICEF’s Silence on Iran: Nobel Laureate Demands Action on Children’s Rights Abuses
Shirin Ebadi: UNICEF Headquarters Should Act Where Local Iran Office Has Failed June 11, 2025 —Nobel Peace Prize laureate and renowned human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi has written a ...
Iran’s Truck Drivers’ Strike Sweeps 163 Cities, Dozens Arrested
Families Pressured to Remain Silent to Obtain Release of Loved Ones Largest Labor Protests in Years Gain Momentum as Strike Enters Third Week June 4, 2025 — A nationwide truck drivers' strike in ...
Urgent Appeal from Evin Prison: Imprisoned Scholar Mahvash Seydal Exposes Iran’s Denial of Medical Care to Women Political Prisoners
Systematic Denial of Medical Care in Iran: A Slow and Silent Execution May 27, 2025 — From Evin Prison, woman political prisoner and international law scholar Mahvash (Sayeh) Seydal has issued ...
Iran Moves to Silence Literary Voices with Arrests, Prison and Death Sentences
At Least 19 Writers and Poets Targeted in 2025, One Sentenced to Death “Lawyers working on such cases face threats, stigmatization, fabricated charges, arrest and disbarment” May 20, 2025 — An intensifying campaign of ...
Crackdown on Justice: CHRI Reveals Systematic Persecution of Iran’s Human Rights Lawyers
New CHRI Fact Sheet Exposes Deepening Legal Crisis for Iran’s Embattled Lawyers Vanishing Defenders: Fewer Than 12 Lawyers Left to Represent Thousands in Iran’s Courts May 14, 2025—Iran is one of the most perilous ...
‘We Are Alive, But in Captivity’: Letter from Imprisoned Kurdish Labor Activist
May 5, 2025 — In a letter obtained by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), Issa Ebrahimzadeh, a Kurdish farmer and labor rights activist who is currently on ...
Iran’s Workers: Battered by Brutal Repression and Lethal Work Conditions
19 Labor Activists Still Imprisoned, One Woman at Risk of Execution Over 2000 Workers Dead in Last 12 Months Due to Unsafe Working Conditions April 30, 2025 – On this International Labor Day, the ...
Op-Ed: Combine ‘Maximum Pressure’ on Iran with Maximum Support for the Iranian People
This article was originally published on The Hill. April 24, 2025 By Michael Eisner, the general counsel of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, and Saeid Dehghan, ...
