The note analyses the repressive and hostile environment for civil society organisations, human rights NGOs, and human rights defenders in Iran.
The note examines in particular the current legislative and regulatory framework and the draft Social Organisations Law, the criminalisation of activists and human rights defenders and the imprisonment of lawyers and journalists.
The first Iran Note, published in September 2023, analysed Iran’s judiciary as a tool of repression and fear. The second Iran Note, published in November 2023, analyzed the use of the death penalty.