Radiofarda – Iranian security forces have arrested a young girl who “dared” to ride a bicycle last Monday in Najafabad in central Iran’s Isfahan province, the local governor announced on Tuesday, October 20. Iranian security forces have arrested a young girl who “dared” to ride a bicycle last Monday in Najafabad in central Iran’s Isfahan province, the local governor announced …

RFL/RE – Russia and Iran have rejected U.S. claims that the two countries have been interfering with the 2020 presidential election next month. Iran said on October 22 that it had summoned the Swiss envoy in Tehran, who represents U.S. interests in the country because Washington and Tehran have no diplomatic ties, to protest against what it called the “baseless” …

Iran-HRM – A group of political prisoners in Evin Prison called for a visit to Iranian prisons by international human rights organizations. In their statement, a copy of which was received by Iran Human Rights Monitoring, the inmates called on the UN’s human rights representatives and all human rights institutions to visit the notorious prison and all its wards to examine …

Iran-HRM – Authorities have taken Afkari brothers, Habib and Vahid, to solitary confinement in a prison in southwestern Iran since early September to stifle their voices. The authorities have denied the Afkari brothers visitations and phone calls with their family since their younger brother Navid Afkari was executed on September 12, 2020. Vahid and Habib Afkari were taken to solitary confinement in notorious Adelabad …

Iran-HRM – Reports say the health of political prisoner Fatemeh Mosanna held at women’s ward of Evin Prison is deteriorating and the authorities have deprived her of adequate medical treatment. Fatemeh Mosana’s health condition deteriorated on October 17 due to an intestinal infection she developed from prison conditions. The prison’s doctors have said that they cannot do anything to treat her in …

CHRI – Farid Zirgi Moghaddam began serving his five-year sentence in the central prison in the city of Birjand, in South Khorasan province in eastern Iran, on October 19, 2020—a prison sentence that was based solely on his belief in the banned Baha’i faith, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Initially, in July 2020, Moghaddam had …

For all the to-and-fro over the expiration of the UN arms embargo on Iran on Oct. 18, little has changed in practice. Although the United States lost big in its effort to extend the ban, no major arms dealer will risk American sanctions for the sake of Iran’s market, limited as it is by the state’s economic troubles. Tempting massive fines from …

Radiofarda -A widespread protest is underway on Persian social media against the shortage of insulin in Iran. A widespread protest is underway on Persian social media against the shortage of insulin in Iran. Eight months have passed since pharmacies in Iran have run out of insulin pens. The lack of response from government officials prompted social media users to circulate …

Iran-HRM – Activist teacher Mohammad Habibi is deprived of going on prison leave despite having served one-third of his sentence. Mr. Habibi is presently detained in ward 2 of the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP). In 2018, the Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced him to 10.5 years in prison and 74 lashes. As a supplementary punishment, he is also banned from …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – A prisoner sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for “premeditated murder during the course of an armed robbery” has been executed in Sanandaj Central Prison. According to the Iran Human Rights, this morning, Wednesday, October 21, a male prisoner was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison. The prisoner, whose identity was established as 28-year-old Shahram Takhsha, was on …