Human Rights

After the January massacre, the Islamic Republic accelerated executions, mass arrests, and systematic torture—including sexual violence—into a governing strategy designed...

A 21-year-old rapper from Astara recounts being summoned, detained, beaten, and pressured to sign forced confessions after joining the January...

Rights monitors report thousands killed and tens of thousands arrested in Iran’s January uprising, including over 160 children, amid forced...

Witness reports and research records suggest Iran may have used incapacitating chemical and drug-based agents alongside live fire in January...

Two firsthand accounts—from an unnamed city and from Shiraz—describe nights of gunfire and drones, street encirclement and arrests, a near-total...

During Iran’s total communications blackout after the January 8 massacre, Radio Zamaneh returned to shortwave and satellite broadcasts to break...

Conflicting death and arrest figures, testimony of indiscriminate and targeted shooting, allegations of extortion for bodies, and a prolonged internet...

By warning of “Syriaization,” authorities shift blame to protesters, normalize unlimited force, and recycle the Syrian playbook: dehumanization, impunity, and...

As protests surged nationwide, Iran’s blackout cut people off from the world, disrupted daily life, and strengthened repression by blocking...

Tehran and other cities face an undeclared curfew, coercion, darkness, and plainclothes repression—de facto martial law after a massacre—despite the...