Iran-HRM – After several brutal killings of protesters in Zahedan and other cities in Sistan and Baluchistan Province, SE Iran, the Iranian authorities are further violating human rights by kidnapping children and youth. The kidnapped children and youth had actively participated in protests by the Baluch people on Friday, November 11, 2022. A 22-year-old Baluch, Mehrshad Talatof had disappeared suspiciously …

Iran-HRM – Over 1,500 indictments for detained protesters Parham Parvari, a detained protester in Evin Prison, made a brief call to his family on Sunday, November 13, 2022, and informed them that he had been charged with moharebeh (waging war on God). Parham Parvari, a 25-year-old swimming champion and coach from Saqqez, was charged with moharebeh at the Prosecutor’s Office …

CHRI – Heeding calls by human rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), 16 UN-appointed independent human rights experts have called on Iranian authorities to stop indicting people with charges punishable by death for participating in peaceful demonstrations. Following is the complete UN press release (Persian version here). GENEVA (11 November 2022) — UN experts* today urged Iranian authorities to …

Shabtabnews – The White House on Monday expressed concerns over reports of mass arrests, sham trials and a recent death sentence issued in Iran, where authorities appear to be escalating their crackdown on the anti-government protest movement.  “The eyes of the world are on Iran,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement. “The human rights abuses inflicted by …

The ongoing nationwide protests in Iran, sparked by the death of a 22-year old Mahsa Jina Amini while in the custody of the morality police, will soon be entering its third month and there are no signs of consensus between the government and the people. In fact the people and the Iranian regime seem to be further away from one …

RFL/RE – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has fired on targets in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region, the latest round of attacks on the area in recent weeks. Iranian media, including, IRNA, Tasnim and the Fars news agency, which is affiliated with the IRGC, said bases of “terrorist groups” in the Kurdish region of Iraq were targeted with missiles and …

RFL/RE – Fresh European Union sanctions will target the “inner circle of power” of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Germany said on November 14 as the bloc convened to respond to what it has condemned as Tehran’s widespread use of force against peaceful protesters. The protests, triggered by the September 16 death of Mahsa Amini in morality police custody, mark one of …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have transferred jailed activist Hossein Ronaghi to hospital as his health deteriorated after he went on a hunger strike, his family says. Ronaghi, an outspoken freedom of speech campaigner, was arrested on September 24 as anti-government protests swept the country and was incarcerated in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison, where he had both of his legs broken. …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have responded to the ongoing wave of nationwide protests by arresting thousands of people who peacefully took to the streets to demand more freedoms, in the biggest threat to the clerical regime since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Human rights groups have voiced alarm over the arbitrary arrest, detention and ill treatment ofordinary citizens, students, journalists, civil …

Iranwire – Iranian football star Ali Karimi has asked members of Iran’s national football team to “choose the right side of history” after a government official suggested on Sunday that athletes who refuse to sing the national anthem should be cut from their teams. Iran’s national volleyball team has become the latest group of Iranian athletes to decline to sing …