Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities executed teenager Abolfazl Chezani Sharahi this morning at Qom Prison. He was sentenced to death in 2014 on charge of murder while he was 14 years old. Since 2014, he has been sent to solitary confinement four times in preparation for his execution only to be delayed afterwards. The last time he was transferred to solitary …

Iran-HRM – Abbas Soltanian, the Second Deputy Director of Secondary Schools in the Ministry of Education, announced that 151 thousand and 46 girls had left school this year. He stated that if we calculate the entire educational population, from 2017-2018, the number of female students who did not register at any base, don’t have any profile registered, and are not …

Iran-HRM – The Iranian authorities should end their cruel campaign of harassment and intimidation against the families of detainees who have died in detention under suspicious circumstances, Amnesty International, the Centre for Human Rights in Iran, Human Rights Watch and Justice for Iran said today.

Al-Arabia – Humanity has gone through different stages, had different centers of power and produced various scientific innovations and breakthroughs. The rise and fall of these development, crises, big conflicts, clashes and revolutions have had a crucial impact in molding the world today. Deriving right lessons Complexities have been present in all stages of history. The realistic assessment of all …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s supreme leader is urging the country’s judiciary to take measures to secure people’s “businesses and lives” amid economic protests that have struck the capital, Tehran.

Al-Arabia – After years of causing disruption on the streets of Egypt, on 30 June 2012, the Muslim Brotherhood’s leader Mohammed Morsi was sworn in as the country’s first democratically elected president.

RFL/RE – The United States is pushing countries to halt Iranian oil imports from early November, a senior State Department official said on June 26, warning that Washington will not grant any sanction waivers. President Donald Trump on May 8 announced that the United States was leaving a landmark 2015 deal that Tehran signed with world powers to curb its …

Iran Human Rights –  Mehdi Khazaeian is a juvenile offender whose death sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court and is scheduled for execution. Iran Human Rights (IHR) urges the Iranian authorities to stop juvenile executions and calls on the international community to pay urgent attention to Khazaeian’s case.

CHRI – Brussels, June 27, 2018–People with disabilities in Iran face discrimination, abuse, and an inaccessible environment, Human Rights Watch and the Center for Human Rights in Iran said in a joint report released today. The 72-page report, “‘I Am Equally Human’: Discrimination and Lack of Accessibility for People with Disabilities in Iran,” documents the everyday barriers people with disabilities …

CHRI – The Chief Justice of Iran Sadegh Larijani has threatened the merchants who have been protesting in Tehran against rising inflation since June 25, 2018, with execution if they don’t back down. Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi has also blamed the protests on the US, adding that “a number of the main instigators” have been arrested. “I’m warning you. …