RFL/RE – Human Rights Watch (HRW) says overwhelming evidence shows that the Iranian authorities’ mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 amounts to crimes against humanity. The rights group said in a report published on June 8 that Iranian authorities, acting on the orders of then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, “summarily and extrajudicially” executed thousands of political prisoners across the …

Iranwire – An Iranian former police commander who gave first-hand evidence of atrocities committed during the November 2019 protests is at risk of being “offshored” from the UK to Rwanda next week. The man arrived in the UK as an asylum seeker in May this year and is currently being held in Brook House Detention Center, a removal facility near an airport …

Iranwire – On Sunday, June 5, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported that the former governor of Khuzestan province, Gholamreza Shariati, had left Iran. The embattled politician was said to have “legally” bought a one-way ticket to the UAE. The news came barely two weeks after the collapse of the Metropol complex in Abadan, Khuzestan. The unfinished 10-storey Tower 2 of …

CHRI – Former female cellmates of a group of wildlife conservationists who’ve been unjustly imprisoned in Iran since January 2018 penned the following letter as a tribute to their nature-loving friends on the occasion World Environment Day, June 5, 2022. The letter was initially written in Persian and provided to the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) along with the English …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Official sources have reported the execution of an unnamed man by own his own son after being sentenced to retribution for murder. According to Rokna, an unnamed man was hanged by his own son in Raja Shahr Prison at an unspecified date. Iran Human Rights has established the date of the execution to have been …

Shabtabnews – In a report USCRIF outlines the extent of documented global religious oppression in its database..

RFL/RE – The family of an Iranian dissident journalist says their son has been missing since the end of last month and is likely to have been abducted by Iranian agents in Turkey, where he had taken refuge.The Daily Sabah newspaper reported on June 5 that the father of Mohammad Bagher Moradi, an opposition journalist who fled to Turkey nine …

Iranwire – The fatal collapse of the Metropol building in Abadan has sparked a wider discussion on the issue of building safety in Iran. A recent expert assessment found that in the last 50 years, the average useful lifespan of a building in Iran has fallen from an average of 32 years to 26. In the immediate present, an exclusive report by Ensaf News …

Iranwire – Iranian pensioners and retirees marched through the streets in at least 16 cities on Monday to highlight their dire living conditions after a government decision not to increase monthly payments in line with inflation.  #تبریز– #بازنشستگان_تامین_اجتماعی نیروی سرکوب را از سر راه خود میروبند.چهار راه منصور به طرف میدان ساعت و بازار pic.twitter.com/OMlQh7HVQN— (علی یوسفی) Ali Yosofi (@nioscha1) June 6, 2022 Some of …

Iran-HRM – Human rights sources reported that 12 prisoners were executed in Iran on Monday, June 6, in the Central Prison of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan and Baluchestan Province. The Halvash news website, which covers the news of religious and ethnic minority groups in Sistan and Baluchestan province, reported that a woman was among the 12 victims of a …