updated Sat. January 7, 2023
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CNN
April 27, 2018
... Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has condemned the arrest of dual nationals by Iran. "Iran's continued arbitrary arrests of dual nationals without transparency and lack of due process is extremely concerning," said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the CHRI, in a statement published Wednesday.
RadioFarda
April 18, 2018
“Even the walls of Evin Prison have not been able to stop Narges Mohammadi from being a leading defender of women's and human rights in Iran,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the New York based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). In 2009 Mohammadi was dismissed from her job as anÃâà...
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
April 15, 2018
“Even the walls of Evin Prison have not been able to stop Narges Mohammadi from being a leading defender of women's and human rights in Iran,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of CHRI, a physicist who attended the award ceremony in Columbus. Mohammadi was first arrested in 2009 andÃâà...
Iran News Update
April 11, 2018
Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran, told Reuters: "Towns and villages around Isfahan have been hit so hard by drought and water diversion that they have emptied out, and people who lived there have moved." The government promised to pay compensation to help theÃâà...
Reliefweb
April 11, 2018
Approximately 97 percent of the country is experiencing drought to some degree, according to the Iran Meteorological Organization. "Towns and villages around Isfahan have been hit so hard by drought and water diversion that they have emptied out, and people who lived there have moved," Hadi Ghaemi,Ãâà...
RadioFarda
April 8, 2018
“Towns and villages around Isfahan have been hit so hard by drought and water diversion that they have emptied out and people who lived there have moved,” said Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director for the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), a New York-based advocacy group, told ReutersÃâà...
Center for Human Rights in Iran
March 12, 2018
“The UN should act forcefully on this appeal to protect the rights of Iranian journalists and their families who have been targeted by the state's security establishment,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “The UN has repeatedly criticized the Iranian authorities'Ãâà...
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
March 10, 2018
The father and son were arrested on December 27, 2009, along with Mohsen Daneshpour's wife, Motahareh Bahrami Haghighi, as well as Reyhaneh Haj Ebrahim Dabbagh and Hadi Ghaemi. At the time, there were protests around the city—a continuation of the mass demonstrations that broke out againstÃâà...
Center for Human Rights in Iran
March 8, 2018
“Instead of harassing and intimidating the families of people who have died in state custody, Iranian officials should allow an independent, UN-led investigation into the cause of death of Seyed-Emami, an Iranian-Canadian citizen,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of CHRI. “As a country with leverageÃâà...
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
March 6, 2018
March 6, 2018—The recent death of a devotee of Iran's largest Sufi order in Tehran marks the fourth known death of a detainee in state custody in Iran in two months. “It's outrageous that detainees in Iran keep dying in state custody,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights inÃâà...
Center for Human Rights in Iran
February 28, 2018
A final agreement was reached between the parties in July 2015 and since then various EU delegations have traveled to Iran. “Urging the Iranian authorities to respect human rights is not analogous to demonizing Iran,” said Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
February 27, 2018
“The case of Mohammad Kalhori is extremely concerning because Iran has yet again issued a death sentence to a person who was convicted as a juvenile in violation of international and UN standards,” said Hadi Ghaemi, CHRI's executive director, “It also highlights the Iranian Judiciary's lack ofÃâà...
Center for Human Rights in Iran
February 27, 2018
“With the selection of Avaei as their rep to the UN Human Rights Council, Iran is telling the world that human rights violators can not only commit their abuses with impunity in Iran, they will be rewarded,” said Hadi Ghaemi, CHRI's executive director. Avaei, a prosecutor in 1988, was a member of theÃâà...
Jewish Journal
February 23, 2018
The Trump administration reportedly waived sanctions on Iran's chief propaganda outlet due to a secret deal forged between the Obama administration and the Iranian regime. According to the Washington Free Beacon, the Obama administration and Iranian regime came to an agreement in 2013 where theÃâà...
Center for Human Rights in Iran
February 22, 2018
asked Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the CHRI. “These brave prisoners cannot do it alone—unless there is concerted pressure by the international community, the authorities in Iran will continue to act with impunity to imprison any critic of the state without evidence or due process,” Ghaemi said.
RadioFarda
January 26, 2018
Referring to the report, titled “Guards at the Gate: The Expanding State Control Over the Internet in Iran,” CHRI Executive Director Hadi Ghaemi said, “The Iranian government has now shown the world that it can and will cut its citizens off from the global Internet in total disregard for the rights of the IranianÃâà...
Express.co.uk
January 6, 2018
Backing the US' decision to convene a special UN Security Council session, Hadi Ghaemi said the EU, one of Iran's strongest trading partners, had been “complicit” in allowing conditions to continue. “Unlike in 2009, these protests are being driven from outside the big cities like Tehran and Isfahan,” he saidÃâà...
Mirror.co.uk
December 31, 1999
Executive Director, Hadi Ghaemi, at the Centre for Human Rights in Iran said: "Iran's continued arbitrary arrests of dual nationals without transparency and lack of due process is extremely concerning. "The Iranian judiciary and the security establishment, particularly the Revolutionary Guards, areÃâà...
NRT
December 31, 1999
... 83 countries approved a resolution by the UN Third Committee in November 2017, criticizing the state of human rights in the Islamic Republic. “The international community has spoken: Iran must improve its human rights record,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in IranÃâà...
Center for Human Rights in Iran
December 31, 1999
“FIFA's own rules say it won't tolerate discrimination of any kind, yet it has done nothing to end the ban on Iranian women in stadiums,” said CHRI's Executive Director Hadi Ghaemi. “FIFA should uphold its own policies by showing Iran that it will be very costly to continue discriminating against women,”Ãâà...
