Iran-HRM – An appeals court in Iran has upheld a 32-year prison sentence against university students Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi, according to their lawyer. The state-run Emtedad Telegram channel quoted their lawyer Mostafa Nili on June 6, as saying: “The Tehran Court of Appeals has approved the sentences of 16 years in prison for these two students at Sharif University, …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – 12 Baluch minorities including a woman were executed on murder and drug-related charges in Zahedan Central Prison today. According to Hal Vash, eleven Baluch men and a Baluch woman were executed in Zahedan Central Prison on June 6. Of the 12, six were sentenced to death for drug-related charges and six were sentenced to qisas(retribution-in-kind) for …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mehdi Sarhadi, a Baluch man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was executed in Isfahan Central Prison despite promise of pardon if he memorised Quran verses.            According to the Baluch Activists Campaign, a Baluch man was executed Isfahan Central Prison on May 29. His identity has been reported as 36-year-old Mehdi Sarhadi who was …

Al-Monitor – Iranian officials have continued to fire back at the United Nations nuclear watchdog over its findings as the negotiations to revive the Iranian nuclear deal remain at a standstill. During a television interview, Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh discussed the latest findings of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Khatibzadeh said that the IAEA’s board of governors is …

Al-Arabia – The death toll in the collapse of a building in southwestern Iran rose Monday to at least 41, state media reported, two weeks after the disaster struck. Ehsun Abbaspour, the governor of the city of Abadan, gave the figure based on an official report, state television said. The May 23 collapse at the Metropol Building some 660 kilometers …

Iranwire – On May 27, while the bodies of young people from Khuzestan were being pulled from the wreckage of the Metropol complex in Abadan, thousands of children and adolescents were brought to Tehran’s Azadi Stadium to take part in a massive pro-regime rally. Those present were invited to sing along to the new pop song/anthem Hello Commander, also known as Hail …

Iranwire – On Thursday, June 2, the human rights activist Arash Sadeghi reported that a man convicted of theft in Iran been subjected to the medieval punishment of amputation. The previous Tuesday, he said, the man was transferred from Kermanshah to Ward 7 of Evin Prison, a guillotine was brought in, and the four fingers of one of his hands were sliced off. …

VOA – The death toll in a catastrophic tower collapse in southwestern Iran rose to at least 38 on Sunday, state TV reported, as emergency workers pulled another body from the rubble amid fears still more could be trapped in the destruction. It’s unclear how many more people remain unaccounted for in the collapse of the still-under-construction tower at the …

Iran-HRM – May 2022 saw the Iranian regime ratchet up social clampdown in step with the growing discontent and the spread of popular protests. Iranian authorities intensified their crackdown on society amid protests against rising prices. Security forces arrested dozens of teachers in the four days leading up to international workers’ day, between April 28 and May 1, 2022. Peaceful …

shabtabnews – In a statement IOPHR drew attention on “the latest round of these threats, the elements of the Iranian regime living abroad, who wish to exercise Iranian government control over the Sufis, are once again publishing threatening content in cyberspace via anonymous and real social media accounts. All in an attempt to intensify the atmosphere of terror and intimidation, …