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Month: February 2021

Two men killed by Iran’s security forces in Sistan and Baluchestan Province

Iran-HRM - Iran’s security forces shot and killed at least two men from Iran’s disadvantaged Baluchi ethnic minority. The state…

Joint Letter: Urgent International Action Needed to Secure Release of Kurdish Activists and Others Arbitrarily Detained in Iran

HRW - We, the undersigned 36 civil society and human rights organizations, call for the urgent attention of the international…

Iran: UN Experts Alarmed Over Execution of Baluch Minority Prisoners

Iranhr.net – UN human rights experts today condemned the weekend hanging of Javid Dehghan, an Iranian from the Baloch minority.…

Mohammad Nourizad at Risk of Death in Prison in Iran

Iran Human Rights (IHR)- Imprisoned human rights defender Mohammad Nourizad’s wife, Fatemeh Maleki says he continues to be held at…

Academic jailed in Iran pulls off daring escape back to Britain

theguardian.com - A British- Iranian dual national sentenced to nine years and three months in jail in Iran for co-operating with “a…

Iranian Dissidents Urge Biden to Press Tehran on Human Rights, Democracy

VOA - A group of Iranian dissidents has urged U.S. President Joe Biden to support their demands for secular democracy and respect for human…

Iran responsible for attempted bomb attack on opposition group in France: Lawyer

Al-Arabia - Iran is responsible for the attempted bomb attack by a diplomat and several others at an event held by an…

Special Report: Bad Science, Bad Faith and Covid-19 in Iran

Iranwire - The following is the full text of IranWire’s new report on the story of Covid-19 in the Islamic…

Khomeini Factcheck: Can Iran’s Supreme Leader Avoid Autocracy?

Iranwire - The founder of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, repeatedly claimed that the principle of Velayat-e Faqih…

Khomeini Factcheck: Have Iranian Laws Protected the Rights of Women and Minorities?

Iranwire - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, founder of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, claimed in a message to the Iranian people on April 3,…