Iran Cracks Down on Instagram Celebrities
Instagram influencers in Iran are being forced to censor their posts and give their account passwords to intelligence agents amid a renewed crackdown on freedom of expression and speech. Investigations...
View ArticleEducation For All
Millions of children with disabilities in Iran are being denied education. Center for Human Rights in Iran & Human Rights Watch interviewed dozens of people in Iran with kids who’ve been denied...
View ArticleWomen in Iran Make History as Thousands Attend Football Game
Women in Iran made HISTORY on October 10, 2019, when thousands watched a football game in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium. They’ve been banned from purchasing tickets for the past 38 years. The post Women in...
View ArticleShirin Neshat Curates Iranian Women Artists Exhibit
A new exhibit curated by visual artist Shirin Neshat with artistic advisor Nicky Nodjoumi and organized by the Center for Human Rights in Iran features nearly 100 works by Iranian women artists. Come...
View ArticlePeople with Disabilities Deserve Equal Rights and Equal Participation in Society
December 3 Marks International Day of Persons with Disabilities The International Day of Persons with Disabilities, begun by the UN in 1992, is observed each year on December 3. Its aim is to...
View ArticleInterview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour: Iranian Art in the Shadow of a...
Violent state repression of protests in Iran is not unique, yet the lethal means government forces used to repress recent protests that broke out across dozens of cities reached new heights this year,...
View ArticleUN Experts Call on Iran to Release Detained Protesters
Iran's judiciary should free all women and men who were arbitrarily detained as state forces violently repressed street protests this past November, said a group of UN human rights experts* on...
View Article“Do You Also Sleep With a Clear Conscience?” (An Open Letter to Candidate...
In 2017, when Iranian Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi launched his first presidential campaign, Effat Mahbaz–the widow of a political prisoner killed during mass executions in the 1980s–published an open...
View ArticleMusician Marjan Farsad’s New Song Pays Tribute to Iranian Political Prisoners
“My Song is About Stars That Go Missing Every Night” August 5, 2021 – Iranian American musician and songwriter Marjan Farsad released a new song today about political prisoners in Iran, a country...
View ArticleThe Life of an Iranian Child Bride: An Animation by Marjan Farsad
By the age of eleven, “Raha” already had seven children. Married off to a man five times her age, she was in poor health when her situation was accidentally discovered in the Iranian city of Ilham by...
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