A courageous Iranian woman snatched off a mullah’s turban to use as a headscarf after he allegedly scolded her for what she was wearing. Footage circulating on social media shows the altercation at ...

The Centre for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) released a press release on Monday claiming Iran has escalated its crackdown on human rights lawyers and other dissenters as part of its expanding ...

"The Iranian authorities have shown a complete disregard for her well-being," said Hadi Ghaemi, director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran. "This is not just a case of medical neglect ...

The establishment's main focus was to intimidate the population into submission by any means, said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. "Protests have taken a ...

"This practice is a blatantly unlawful move to discredit activists by labelling them mentally unstable," says executive director Hadi Ghaemi. Amnesty International says the situation is "alarming ...

Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of Oslo-based Iran Human Rights, said at the time: ‘Iranian authorities systematically use involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation as a tool to suppress dissent ...