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
Please watch the Alternative Human Rights Expo 4 to support women human rights defenders
Update: Watch the event video in English on YouTube here! The Gulf Centre for Human rights (GCHR), with the support of 27 partners held the online event,
1/12/2025 Learn More
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 Take Action
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 ActionLatest News & Publications from Iran
Human Rights in the Middle East Countries: 2025 Annual Report of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The main objective of the Gulf Centre for Human Rights (GCHR) is to foster a vibrant and safe civic space in which human rights defenders (HRDs)
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The Gulf region and neighbouring countries: Authorities exercising more repression and silencing free voices, exploiting current war
Most governments in the Gulf region and neighbouring countries, exploiting the current war, are intensifying their systematic repression to suppress public freedoms,
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