Human Rights Tracker

Update 7/19/22: Reports indicate that after being detained on July 11th, Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi will have to serve a six-year prison sentence on spurious charges from

The decision by Khamenei to politicize the pandemic as Iranians suffered the consequences was particularly egregious at a time when access to the vaccine was

Iranian-American businessman Siamak Namazi has been imprisoned in Iran for over six years. First detained in October of 2015 by the intelligence branch of the

The United Nations Human Rights Council marked its 50th session with days of speakers and presentations to look back on its work, including achievements and

Though Pride started more than 50 years ago in the streets of New York, over the decades its traditions of protest for liberation, celebration of

A letter signed by conservationists from around the globe marked World Environment Day, June 5th, by calling for the protection of Persian leopards and their

Fresh attacks on women’s attendance at soccer matches came earlier this week, as reports and videos emerged that Iranian women who had legally purchased tickets

A video message released on March 6th by one of Iran’s preeminent filmmakers, Dariush Mehrjui, has drawn support and been shared by Iranians around the

March 1, 2022 is the 1000th day that French-Iranian dual national, Fariba Adelkhah, has been detained in Iran under dubious charges. A well-known anthropologist and

Iranian American, Emad Shargi, Remains in Iranian Prison after being detained over a year ago in Iran on trumped-up charges of espionage—an all too familiar

Reports from Friday describe Iranian security forces violently clamping down on peaceful protests over water scarcity taking place in Isfahan and at least one other

This November marks two years since the brutal crackdown of protests across Iran, which were sparked by an overnight spike in fuel prices but revealed

Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported last week that a new population law in Iran infringes upon the sexual and reproductive health rights of Iranian women,

Human Rights Watch has independently confirmed that Payam Derafshan, a respected Iranian human-rights lawyer, has suffered a cruel level of torture at the hands of

An Iranian appeals court has prolonged the unjust detention of British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe by a year, after it upheld an earlier verdict and

Today, authoritarian governments have become concerningly adept at digital crackdowns, censorship, and repression online. Inhibiting people’s ability to freely communicate online has become an all-too-common

84-year-old Iranian American Baquer Namazi has been unjustly detained by Iranian authorities since 2016, when he traveled to the country to see his son, Siamak

Another disturbing death under the custody of Iranian authorities has compounded the tragic case of Navid Afkari. The death of Shahin Naseri, a witness to

As a tool for widespread communication and sharing across borders, Iranian authorities have long tried to control and censor internet access for Iranian citizens. However,

One of the most recent targets of Iranian authorities is journalist and labor activist, Amir-Abbas Azarmvand, who was arrested on September 1st by security agents.

The detention and torture of Iranian-Kurdish prisoner, Heidar Ghorbani, has attracted international outrage since his arrest by Iranian officials five years ago. Now, with his

Recently leaked footage from Tehran’s Evin Prison shows disturbing mistreatment of prisoners, including physical beatings and lack of proper medical care, which have drawn rightful

On August 10, a landmark trial opened in Sweden, as Hamid Nouri, a sixty-year-old former prosecutor from Iran, went on trial for his alleged role

Given Tehran’s refusal to recognize dual nationality, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have arrested dozens of dual nationals in recent years, mostly on the basis of security-related

In 2016, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that explicitly “declared internet access a human right”

As Khuzestan enters its seventh day of protests over devastating water shortages, Iranian security forces continue to crackdown brutally on protestors and throttle internet speed

Whether it is international threats to critics abroad or outrageous arrests of activists and foreign and dual nationals within the country, Iranian security services repeatedly

Reza Eslami, the Iranian-Canadian legal scholar who was arrested by Iranian authorities last May, was reportedly sentenced on Monday to seven years in prison on