Iranwire – The mother of a teenager, Nika Shakarami, who died during recent protests in Iran has denounced a state television report in which her family was forced to disavow claims that Nika was killed by security forces. Nasrin Shakarami, Nika’s mother, added that she had been threatened with also being made to appear in a similar forced broadcast. Nika, …

VOA – As protests flare across Iran over the death of young Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, the Kurdistan region of neighboring Iraq has paid a price, coming under bombardment from the Islamic republic’s forces. Their target is the long-exiled Iranian Kurdish opposition, installed in Iraq under Saddam Hussein during his war with Iran in the 1980s. Tehran regards these …

CHRI – The following letter, signed by 21 human rights groups including the Center for Human Rights in Iran, was sent on October 6, 2022, to the offices of U.S. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and the U.S. Representative to the UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield. Download a PDF of the letter here.  LETTER TO PRESIDENT BIDEN ON IRAN: FULFILL …

CHRI – Less than three weeks after protests erupted across Iran, at least 1,200 people have been arrested, including at least 92 members of civil society who were not arrested at street protests, but instead arbitrarily detained at their homes or workplaces after Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i ordered “preventative detentions” on September 22, 2022, according to a list compiled by the Center …

Amnesty – Iranian security forces unlawfully killed at least 66 people, including children, and injured hundreds of others after firing live ammunition, metal pellets and teargas at protesters, bystanders and worshippers during a violent crackdown after Friday prayers on 30 September in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan province, Amnesty International said today. Since then, another 16 people were killed in separate …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Contradictory claims by the Islamic Republic about 17-year-old protester, Nika Shakarami’s cause of death based on grainy edited footage and her relatives’ forced televised confessions under duress are unacceptable. Given the Islamic Republic’s long history of concealing, lying and manipulating evidence, Iran Human Rights rejects the official account of Nika Shakarami’s death due to the …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Six men were executed for drug-related charges in Shiraz Central Prison over two days. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, four men were executed in Shiraz Central Prison on October 2. Their identities have been established as Hashem Mahmoudzadeh, Yousef Ali-Chalani, Abbas Fathalian and Heydar Ramezani. They were all sentenced to death for …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Kiumars Parvaneh and Hassan Hojati who were sentenced to death for rape in the same case, were executed in Qazvin Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Qazvin Central Prison on September 28. Their identities have been established as Kiumars Parvaneh and Hassan Hojati who were sentenced …

Al-Monitor – Iranians have been appalled by the deaths of three 16-year-olds in the  anti-government protests that have been sweeping the country after Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody on Sept. 16.  Nika Shakarami: Her body was buried near her parents’ hometown, Khorramabad, on Tuesday. But the burial did little to stop questions surrounding her death. According to her family, she disappeared …

Al-Monitor – As protests over the death of Iranian citizen Mahsa Amini, an ethnic Kurd, at the hands of Iran’s notorious morality police reverberate across the globe, the Turkish government has been strikingly silent on the matter — unlike its Western counterparts.  While the protests were largely covered by Turkey’s independent media outlets, they were mostly downplayed by pro-government media …