Iran Reports ‘Terrorist Attack’ On Cargo Ship In Mediterranean Sea
RFL/RE - An Iranian state-owned company says one of its cargo vessels was targeted this week by what it called…
Month: March 2021
3 Iranian Arab Dissidents Showed Signs of Torture Before Execution, Activist Says
VOA - An exiled Iranian Arab rights activist has revealed that three minority Arab dissidents executed by Iran’s Islamist authorities…
Joint NGO Statement to Member States of the United Nations Human Rights Council
HRW - Statement to Member States of the United Nations Human Rights Council : Your Excellency, We, the undersigned Iranian…
Iranian Courts are Unlawfully Banishing Political Prisoners Into “Prison Exile”
CHRI -Iran’s judicial system has a long, documented history of sentencing detainees held on politically motivated charges to “exile”—prolonged banishment to a…
Sepideh Gholian Moved to a Prison in South Iran
Iranwire - Civil rights activist Sepideh Gholian has been transferred from Evin Prison in Tehran to a remote facility in…
Atlas: The Launch of IranWire’s Website Dedicated to Religious Minorities
Iranwire - IranWire’s Atlas of Religious Minorities website officially started publishing on March 10, 2021. Currently, the site is only…
Impoverished Convict Dies After Receiving the Wrong Medication in Prison
Iranwire - Mehdi Narimani, a young man imprisoned in Greater Tehran Penitentiary for not being able to pay his wife’s…
Political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared forcibly transferred to Semnan Prison
Iran-HRM - Political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared has been abruptly transferred from the women’s ward of Evin Prison to the…
IRAN: JOINT LETTER: IRANIAN AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANISATIONS CALL FOR THE RENEWAL OF THE MANDATE OF THE UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR ON IRAN
Amnesty - Joint letter by Iranian and international human rights organisations, calling for the renewal of the mandate of the…
Lawsuit by Civil Rights Activists Reignites Debate on Solitary Confinement in Iran’s Prisons
CHRI - Use of Solitary Confinement Not Supported Under Iranian law Key Findings: Civil rights activists have filed a lawsuit in Tehran…