The Cost of Normalization: Remembering Jina Mahsa Amini and Confronting State Terror in Iran On September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini was murdered in the custody of Iran’s so called "morality police" after being violently detained over state mandated dress codes. What began as an outcry against [...read more]
Reclaiming Human Rights On World Humanitarian Day, the International Centre for Human Rights (ICHR) honours humanitarian workers, volunteers, medical professionals, human-rights defenders, and ordinary people who dedicate themselves to saving lives, protecting human dignity, and helping communities in crisis. Across the world, millions are suffering from war, terrorism, [...read more]
TORONTO — The International Coalition for Human Rights (ICHR) raises grave concerns over the alarming escalation of state-sanctioned violence in Iran. Iranian authorities continue to systematically weaponize the death penalty as an instrument of political repression, targeting protesters, dissidents, and political prisoners in a desperate bid to stifle [...read more]
The International Centre for Human Rights in Canada (ICHR) is deeply concerned by the issuance of hundreds of Procedural Fairness Letters by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to Iranian applicants whose connection to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arose solely from mandatory military service. Military service [...read more]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE STATEMENTS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (ICHR) Today, the world bears witness to yet another harrowing escalation of state-sanctioned murder inside Iran. Ali Dashti, Alireza Sabahi, and Abul Fazl Sepahi have been executed. Their only "crime"? Demanding their fundamental, inalienable human rights. [...read more]
A Statement by the International Centre for Human Rights – World (ICHR) "We are not merely documenting a crisis; we are bearing witness to the systematic execution of an entire generation. The world’s diplomatic hesitation is no longer just cowardice, but it is active complicity with a terrorist regime." The [...read more]
Petition to the Government of Canada The Government of Canada is reportedly considering a disastrous misstep: restoring diplomatic engagement with the Islamic Republic of Iran and reopening the Canadian embassy in Tehran. Let us be completely unambiguous. Diplomatic relations are not mere administrative paperwork; they are a profound validation of [...read more]
Today, on World Refugee Day, the global tally of forced displacement stands at an staggering 118 million individuals. While state actors and international bodies may attempt to frame a marginal statistical decline from the prior year’s peak as a sign of stabilization, the International Centre for Human Rights – World [...read more]
In the span of five days, the Islamic Republic of Iran executed at least six political prisoners across two prisons. Their names were Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, Naser Bakerzadeh, Yaghoub Karimpour, Mehdi Rasouli, Mohammadreza Miri, and Ebrahim Dolatabadi. Three of them were Kurd. Two; Rasouli and Miri, both 21-year-old workers, had been [...read more]
By International Centre for Human Rights There are moments in history when cruelty is no longer hidden when it becomes systematic, visible, and undeniable. Iran is living through such a moment. Executions are not slowing. They are accelerating. Even as conflict and global attention shift elsewhere, the machinery of death [...read more]
