Iran-HRM – Iran’s judiciary has sentenced a prisoner to death in public. The young man, identified as Dariush Rahimi, 32, has been sentenced to death in public for the murder of a Security Force member. This is the fourth public execution sentence in the recent two months issued by the Iranian judiciary. In March, Tabnak State-Run Website reported that two men, also …

Iran-HRM – Barzan Mohammadi, a civil activist imprisoned in Marivan Prison, has been on a hunger strike since Monday, May 16. Mr. Mohammadi was recently transferred from prison to quarantine for not attending religious services in prison. He is currently on strike to protest his transfer. Barzan Mohammadi was arrested by security forces on June 7, 2021, and transferred to …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Vahid Bagheri has been on a hunger strike at the Greater Tehran Penitentiary. Vahid Bagheri has gone on strike to protest the authorities’ refusal to grant him conditional parole. He was taken to a prison clinic on Thursday in a wheelchair on the twelfth day of his hunger strike due to extreme weakness, and his blood …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) and other state-affiliated websites have in recent days aired or published Iranian-Swedish academic, Dr Ahmadreza Djalali’s forced confessions. Quoting Islamic Republic officials, Iranian media had previously reported that Ahmadreza Djalali’s death sentence would be carried out by tomorrow, May 21. As airing forced confessions in the days leading to a …

Al-Monitor – Deputy commander of Iran’s police Brig. Gen. Qasem Rezaee issued a severe warning against Iranian protesters infuriated by a sharp steep in prices of basic food products.   “Police will act against those individuals with firmness,” Rezaee declared in an interview May 19, adding that his forces “will not tolerate” the rallies in which “public and private properties” have been targeted.    …

Shabtabnews – The International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR) in a statement called ” on all EU Member States, in accordance with the principle of solidarity enshrined in Article 222 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and on the principle of joint diplomatic action, to support the Swedish Government’s principled position in this regard. By …

RFL/RE – Authorities in Tehran are attempting to break a strike by bus workers that has hampered transportation in the capital and threatens to merge with separate antigovernment protests around the country calling for the end of Iran’s clerical regime amid a worsening economic situation.Bus drivers and other employees of the Tehran Bus Company have held strikes since May 16, fueling a …

Iranwire – The former Empress of Iran before the 1979 revolution, Farah Pahlavi, gives a rare interview with Town & Country’s Marc Karimzadeh on her role as a symbol of modernization in Iran, what was, and what could have been.  After 43 years in exile, it would be easy to withdraw and resign oneself to bitterness. But speaking from her home in …

Iranwire – Mass anti-government protests gathered pace in cities across Iran last night, as did the lethal security crackdown, as Instagram and Twitter faced a tide of criticism for removing posts documenting the unrest. Huge crowds formed in the city of Golpayegan on Tuesday night, marking the first time a city in Isfahan province has joined the protests that broke …

Iranwire – A group of 26 Iranian Baha’is who were arrested almost six years ago in September 2016 were due to appear in court on Wednesday even though a judge has repeatedly called the case against them “incomplete”. Prosecutors recently issued a fresh indictment against the 26 and sent the case to Branch 1 of Shiraz Revolutionary Court. The group …