The state of human rights in Iran
The government’s scrutiny is focused on those who criticise the country’s policies. Women in particular are targeted with reprisals consisting of arbitrary arrest and detention, stiff penalties, forced confessions, and travel bans due to their peaceful women’s human rights advocacy.
Latest Actions from Iran
End repeated sentencing of Narges Mohammadi and other women human rights defenders
Iran must stop repeatedly sentencing and imprisoning women human rights defenders in a revolving prison door that will never let them be free, says the Gulf Centre for
20/05/2022 Learn More
Appeal to the authorities to #FreeNasrin Sotoudeh and all human rights defenders
Update: Iran: Nasrin Sotoudeh was temporarily released for medical leave on 07 November 2020. Then on 02 December
20/01/2021 Take Action
Take Action: Release Women’s Rights Defenders and Feminist Activists of Iran’s #WhiteWednesdays Campaign!
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) calls for the release of four women human rights defenders (WHRDs) who have been arrested by agents of the Ministry of
31/10/2019 Take Action
Women Human Rights Defenders ailing in prison as a result of solitary confinement and hunger strikes
Update: On 15 July, 2019 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was transferred to the psychiatric ward of Imam Khomeini hospital. She was handcuffed to the bed and held
23/07/2019 Take ActionLatest News & Publications from Iran
GCHR’s Activities during the 59th session of UN Human Rights Council
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) carried out advocacy on behalf of human rights defenders at the 59th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)
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Human rights defenders and journalists at high risk, Universal Periodic Review of Iran completed at UN
As the Islamic Republic of Iran completed its final step in the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process on 01 July 2025, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights
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