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Ali Batrani was a 17-year-old youth, whose tortured body was found on April 18, 2005, in the Karun River in Ahvaz, a city in the Arab-majority Khuzestan province in southwest Iran. He had been arrested on April 15, the first day of...

Before the 31st United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, 500 human rights organizations, law professors, former UN office holders, and high-profile rights defenders including four Nobel Peace Prize laureats and a Pulitzer Prize winner,...

Non-Aligned Movement Summit re-asserts its relevance in a turbulent world The 17th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement held in Venezuela in mid-September 2016 was an occasion to reflect on the movement’s history and to reaffirm its relevance in a world...

Nooses await the executions of prisoners in Iran. Photo from ICHRI and used with permission. The latest session of the United Nations General Assembly is underway in New York City. The assembly has featured many speakers, including Iranian President...

The BBC’s chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet recently accompanied the EU’s Catherine Ashton on a visit to Tehran and following that trip produced an article titled “Four days in Tehran” which appeared in the Features...