Al-Arabia – Iranian authorities have arrested the two actors behind a viral video where a group of film and theater figures stood silently without headscarves in solidarity with the protest movement, a rights group said Wednesday. The actor and director Soheila Golestani, who appeared without her headscarf in the video, and the male director Hamid Pourazari, who also appeared prominently, …

RFL/RE – The jailed spokesman of the Iranian Teachers’ Union’s Coordination Council has published a letter saying that, after he was transferred from Tehran’s infamous Evin prison to hospital due to illness, authorities chained him to the hospital bed for 12 days and denied him access to his lawyer and family. The Iranian Teachers’ Union’s Coordination Council published the letter written by …

Iranwire – Reports from Doha say pro-regime Iranian fans attacked anti-government supporters inside and outside the stadium where Iran and the United States faced off in a World Cup match charged with emotion. Some fans wearing T-shirts with “Women, Life, Freedom” written on them as a message for support for the ongoing demonstrations at home were allegedly beaten up at …

Iranwire -The family of a Belgian man jailed in Iran for more than nine months say his health deteriorated sharply after he started a hunger strike to protest the “inhumane” conditions of his incarceration. Olivier Vandecasteele, a 41-year-old aid worker, was detained by Iranian authorities in February 24. It remains unknown what he is accused of. Vandecasteele’s family said on …

Iranwire – Arshia Iman Gholizadeh Alamdari, a 16-year-old Iranian teenager, took his own life earlier this month, a few days after he was released from detention. Security forces arrested him after he knocked the turban off a cleric’s head in a street of Hadishahr, in the western province of Eastern Azerbaijan, a new tactic employed by Iranians to show dissatisfaction …

VOA – As anti-government protests continue in Iran, Tehran is escalating tensions with its neighbors, accusing them of interfering in its domestic affairs. One of those neighbors, Azerbaijan, has Turkey’s support and is pushing back. Iran has recently carried out military exercises on Azerbaijan’s border and warned Baku not to incite Iran’s significant Azeri minority. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has carried …

CHRI – At Least a Dozen Labor Leaders Arrested in Effort to Crush Strikes Islamic Republic Should Be Expelled from ILO Governing Board November 29, 2022 – More than three months into anti-state protests across Iran that state security forces have been unable to crush despite the use of lethal force, oil workers, truckers, public transportation workers, and factory workers …

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities are arbitrarily detaining 18-year-old Maziar Shahbakhsh and 17-year-old child Yasin Shahbakhsh, both from Iran’s oppressed Baluchi minority. Since their arrest, when both were children, the authorities have subjected them to torture and other ill-treatment, barred them from accessing their lawyers, and denied or severely limited their access to their families. View Report in English DOWNLOAD …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least 448 people including 60 children and 29 women have been killed by security forces in the ongoing nationwide protests. The numbers are a minimum and only include cases verified by Iran Human Rights through documents including death certificates or medical staff testimony, or confirmation through two independent sources. Meanwhile, the Islamic Republic is …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Hossein Kheirollahi, Saheb Rasouli and an unidentified man have been executed in Isfahan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Isfahan Central Prison on November 26. Their identities have been established as Hossein Kheirollahi and Saheb Rasouli who were sentenced to death for drug-related charges by the …