Center for Human Rights in Iran

“Over the past week, Iran has begun a quiet campaign of terror — not against an outside adversary but against its own people.” ✍️ By Karen Kramer, deputy director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran. nytimes.com/2025/07/04/opi…

“Baba was sentenced to death.” ❤️‍🩹 Kurdish citizen Razgar Beigzadeh Babamiri has been sentenced to death for providing aid to injured protesters in Iran. He has endured torture, mock executions, waterboarding, electric shocks—& now the death penalty, all for helping the wounded.

Guards and security forces violently stormed the political prisoners’ ward at Qezelhesar Prison in Karaj on Saturday, reportedly beating inmates and transferring them to unknown locations, according to a post on the Instagram page of political prisoner Ahmadreza Haeri. Two…

#Iran: Reports of several hundred executions so far this year underscore how deeply disturbing the situation has become & the urgent need for an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty. Death penalty is incompatible with right to life & irreconcilable with human…

“My father, Mehdi Hassani, was executed... I am now fatherless.” The daughter of an Iranian political prisoner confirmed that her father was secretly hanged at dawn on Sunday without any prior notice to his family. Behrouz Ehsani, a 70-year-old father of two, was also hanged.

At dawn on Sunday, July 20, 2025, six prisoners convicted of drug-related offenses were executed in Zahedan Prison, according to Haalvsh. Three of the men have been identified as Abdoljalil Darkzahi, Nematollah Shahnawazi, and Dariush Shahbakhsh. All three were arrested in…

Iranian security forces arrested Azerbaijani civil rights lawyer Yilmaz Mehralibeiglo on Monday in Jolfa, East Azerbaijan Province, after luring him to a health center with a deceptive phone call to his mother. According to the Association for Defense of Azerbaijani Political…

🚨 We are deeply alarmed by the Iranian authorities’ escalating use of the death penalty against political prisoners in recent weeks to crush dissent and terrorize the population. Read more: iranhumanrights.org/2025/07/iran-p…

Iranian authorities have confirmed they are holding 18-year-old French-German cyclist Lennart Monterlos, who disappeared in mid-June while biking across the country. He is the third French national known to be detained in Iran. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed…

In a harrowing firsthand account, prominent Iranian political prisoners Abolfazl Qadyani and Mehdi Mahmoudian expose the deliberate endangerment and brutal treatment of inmates during and after the June 2025 military strikes on Iran’s Evin Prison by Israel.…

Political Prisoner Manouchehr Bakhtiari, father of slain protester Pouya Bakhtiari, has been on hunger strike since June 30 in Choobindar Prison to protest the denial of urgent medical furlough and abusive treatment by prison officials. His wife, Sara Abbasi, said in a public…

My op-ed in today's @BostonGlobe: "The crackdown that many Iranians feared has begun. Having weathered the Israeli onslaught, the Islamic Republic of #Iran is shifting its focus to the home front — carrying out mass arrests and executions, erecting new security checkpoints, and…

۱۱ روز از ربوده شدن علی از بند ۴ اوین می گذره و هیچ خبری ازش نیست؛ این بی خبری مطلق غير قابل تحمله. علی کجاست؟ على تنها زندانی ای نیست که ازش بی خبریم همین هشتگ #زندانی_ما_کجاست رو دنبال کنید و ببینید چه تعداد زندانی و خانوادشون رو تو بی خبری و استرس و فشار مضاعف قرار دادن.…

Iran’s judiciary says 71 people were killed in Israel’s strike on Evin, including prisoners, staff, soldiers, & visitors. Families of political prisoners have launched #Where_Is_Our_Prisoner to demand answers about loved ones who’ve been forcibly disappeared since the attack.

Hundreds of ordinary citizens, activists, and minorities are being arrested in Iran as the government moves to stamp out any trace of dissent and reassert its control. Many are at risk of execution. CHRI urges the Trump administration to raise these abuses in upcoming…

We are gravely alarmed by reports that Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, a Swedish-Iranian doctor and academic sentenced to death in Iran, was transferred to an undisclosed location today, raising fears that Iranian authorities may be preparing to carry out his unlawful execution. For…

Today, I received the devastating news that my husband, Dr. Ahmadreza Djalali, has been transferred from Greater Tehran Prison to an unknown location. This sudden move has filled our family with deep fear and uncertainty about his safety and well-being. I urgently call on the…

After Israel’s attack on Evin, 60 political prisoners were reportedly transferred to Qarchak. Sources: “The women were taken to the gym—the worst area—& told they’ll get phone access in one to two days.” Qarchak is notorious for inhumane conditions & called a “torture chamber.”