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.
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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
End Impunity, Protect Journalists
A Report published by the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) to mark the International Day to End Impunity in 2025, marked each year with partners on 02
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Woman human rights defender Sharifeh Mohammadi at risk of execution amid ongoing crackdown
The Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is alarmed at reports that woman human rights defender Sharifeh Mohammadi has had her death sentence upheld by Iran’s Supreme
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