International Reactions

British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is suffering with severe arm, neck and back pain and needs urgent hospitalization. An appeal...

The Iranian authorities have arrested and detained the mother of one of the victims of the government’s violent crackdown on...

GENEVA (2 February 2017) – A group of United Nations human rights experts* has appealed to the Islamic Republic of...

The WMA, along with other organizations involved in medical ethics and human rights, has urged the Iranian authorities to stop...

Iranian human rights defender and writer Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, sentenced to six years in prison for writing a story about...

Iranian prisoner of conscience and human rights defender Saeed Shirzad ended his 39-day hunger strike on 14 January after the...

no stranger to cruel and unusual punishment; indeed, it is the world leader in executions per capita, but throughout 2016,...

Press briefing notes on Iran and Bahrain Spokesperson for UNHCHR: Rupert Colville Location:      Geneva Date: 17 January 2017 We call...

Essential human rights, and particularly the right to free speech, were under attack in Iran in 2016, Human Rights Watch...

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran to the seventieth...