Fazel Hawramy September 14, 2018 The patience of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) with Iranian Kurdish groups operating from northern Iraq was wearing thin. Spiraling violence in western Iran between…

8 September 2018 Amnesty International In response to the news that three Iranian Kurdish men, Zaniar Moradi, Loghman Moradi, and Ramin Hossein Panahi, were executed this morning in Raja’i Shahr…

In recent weeks, the security forces have detained a number of human rights lawyers, this is in addition to a number of other lawyers who have already been detained for…

Fazel Hawramy August 23, 2018 Five-year-old Alireza Pourdad was scared, lying in a hospital bed in the burn ward between two adults who had been burned beyond recognition. Alireza had been injured in a…

August 23, 2018 – The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urges the Iranian Judiciary to turn the three-day furlough it has granted to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe into permanent and…

GENEVA (22 August 2018) – Sanctions must be just, and must not lead to the suffering of innocent people, says United Nations Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy. “The reimposition of sanctions…

August 21 Once again, a number of lawyers were detained and sent to detention following their protest against legislation contrary to the human rights and to highlight the illegal behaviours…

Ottawa—20 August 2018 The Nobel Peace Laureates of the Nobel Women’s Initiative call for an immediate ceasefire to stop armed hostilities in Yemen, and for the creation of an international…

AUGUST 20, 2018 Two weeks ago in Bangladesh, high school students came out in the streets to register their spontaneous protest about the death of two school-going students caused by…

Center for Human Rights in Iran August 14, 2018—An intensifying state crackdown on human rights defenders in Iran, in which the authorities have denied attorneys the ability to represent their…