Iran-HRM – The wife of a detained Baha’i citizen says that more than 40 days after her husband’s arrest, his family is still unaware of his condition and that they have not been able to appoint a lawyer for him. Samira Ebrahimi, the wife of Arsalan Yazdani, said on her Instagram account on Sunday that in a letter to Gholam-Hossein …

amnesty – Iranian authorities must urgently carry out an effective, thorough, independent, impartial and transparent investigation into the causes and circumstances surrounding the enforced disappearance and suspicious death in custody of a 49-year-old man, Shahin Naseri, who provided witness testimony on the torture of wrestler and protester Navid Afkari prior to his secret execution in September 2020. This latest case …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Juvenile offender Arman Abdolali is still being held in solitary confinement and is due to be executed in the coming days in Rajai Shahr Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, juvenile offender Arman Abdolali who was due to be executed today is still being held in solitary confinement and there is serious …

GENEVA ̶ UN human rights experts* today urgently appealed to Iran to halt the execution of Arman Abdolali, convicted for an alleged murder committed when he was 17, and demanded that Iran stop sentencing children to death. Mr. Abdolali is scheduled to be executed tomorrow, but he has been brought back from the gallows at least once before when his …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Omid Sarani who was sentenced to death on drug-related charges has been executed in Birjand Central Prison. At least 84 prisoners, including a woman, have been executed on drug-related charges in Iranian prisons in 2021. According to the Baluch Activists Campaign, a Baluch man was executed in Birjand Central Prison on the morning of October …

Al-Monitor – An influential committee in Iran’s hard-line parliament submitted a concluded investigation and formal lawsuit to the judiciary demanding former President Hassan Rouhani be put on trial. The parliamentarians advancing the complaint argued their probe had established Rouhani’s misconduct and failure to honor his presidential duties during his two consecutive terms (2013-2021). Deputy parliament speaker Abdolreza Mesri, who presided over the Oct. …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s Army and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps kicked off an annual air defense exercise in the country’s central desert on Tuesday to demonstrate Tehran’s ability to defend “sensitive” sites, an Iranian commander said. The two-day exercise includes Iran’s Khordad air defense systems as well as unmanned drones, missiles, radars and electronic and cyber warfare systems, according to Iranian state news. …

Al-Arabia – Shia Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s party was the biggest winner in an Iraqi election on Monday, increasing the number of seats he holds in parliament, according to initial results, officials and a spokesperson for the Sadrist Movement. Former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki looked set to have the next largest win among Shi’ite parties, the initial results showed. For …

RFL/RE – India’s biggest ports operator has announced that it will refuse containerized cargo from Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan after mid-November in a ban that is thought to stem for a major recent heroin seizure. Adani Ports said on October 11 that its “trade advisory” on such cargo would apply to all 10 of its ports as well as third-party …

RFL/RE – Amnesty International is urging Iran to stop the execution planned for later this week of a man arrested at aged 17 and sentenced to death following a “grossly unfair” trial. Arman Abdolali had been moved to solitary confinement in a prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, in preparation for his execution on October 13, the London-based human rights group said …