Shabtabnews – In a statement IOPHR strongly condemned the unjust execution of Ruhollah Zam . The statement declared: “Mr Zam was executed, after the Iranian Supreme Court rejected his appeal on the 8th December 2020, two days prior to the International Human Rights Day. All of which proves how dangerous the conditions in Iran are, and how much contempt the Iranian …

Al-Arabia – Iran has sentenced two women’s rights activists to a total of 15 years in prison, Iranian media reported. A court in Tehran charged Hoda Amid and Najmeh Vahedi, who were both arrested in 2018, with “collaborating with the US government against the Islamic Republic on the issue of women and the family,” Iranian news website Emteded reported on …

Al-Arabia – ran has summoned the ambassador of Germany, current holder of the European Union’s rotating presidency, over EU criticism of the execution of an Iranian journalist, Iranian media reported on Sunday. The Iranian Foreign Ministry also plans on Sunday to summon the French envoy to Tehran, the semi-official Fars news agency said. France also strongly criticized the execution on …

Iranwire.com – On Monday, December 7, the MP Zahra Sheikhi claimed in a tweet that Bill Gates, the owner of Microsoft Corporation, had said in a recent meeting: “I want to reduce the world’s population by up to 15 percent through the vaccine.” Tweeting under the hashtag “covax”, Sheikhi tried to convince her audience that the World Health Organization and Bill Gates …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Reacting to the killing of Major-General Qassem Soleimani and Brigadier-General Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, regime “thinkers” promise “revenge” and suggest this could be done with a single deadly blow to the “enemy”…. Needless to say, when Khomeinists speak of “the enemy,” they mean the American “Great Satan” and its sidekick Israel. Even Ghulam Esmaili, spokesman for Islamic Judiciary, has joined …

Radiofarda – Iran has executed dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, a former exile in France whose online work helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017.The semiofficial ISNA news agency reported on December 12 that Tehran’s Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office announced Zam’s execution by hanging, causing a chorus of international outrage.The execution comes days after Iran’s judiciary announced the Supreme Court had more …

RFL/RE – On November 20, 1998, journalist and translator Majid Sharif left his mother’s home in Tehran for a run. He never returned. A few days later, his mother identified his body at a morgue. Sharif was found dead on a street in the capital. His death certificate said he died of a heart attack. His suspicious death came amid …

Iran-HRM – Ali Younesi, Amir Hossein Moradi under pressure to make forced confessions Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi are still detained in the Intelligence Ministry Ward 209 of Evin Prison in a bid to force them into making confessions against themselves. Both young men are under torture and have been brought under added pressure to make false confessions. Eight months since …

Iran-HRW -14 prisoners started a dry hunger strike in the Central Prison of Urmia on the morning of Wednesday, December 9. They are protesting the Judiciary’s failure to commute their sentences. The 14 prisoners staged a sit-in in the sentry room on Friday morning. The prisoners on hunger strike are: Dara Rashidi, Hossein Osmani, Salar Sediq Hamedani, Ebrahim Sediq Hamedani, Aran (Abdol-Majid) Tibash, Javad …

(HRW) – Iranian authorities executed a prominent dissident and journalist on December 12, 2020, after convicting him on vague national security charges, Human Rights Watch said today. Rouhallah Zam, founder of the popular Telegram channel Amadnews, was likely detained while on a visit to Iraq in October 2019 and forcibly returned to Iran, where he faced trial for his activism. The Supreme …