RFL/RE – Yahya Rahimi was driving to work when two men armed with large sticks attacked his car, shattering his windscreen. As the 31-year-old slowly drove off, a gunshot was heard. Rahimi was dead, his bloodied head resting on the smashed driver’s window. That is according to a video shared by Hengaw, a rights group registered in Norway that reports on Iran’s …

Iranwire – Two British-Iranian journalists working in Britain for an independent Farsi-language channel have received “credible” death threats from Iran’s security forces, the channel’s broadcaster said Monday. Volant Media, the London-based broadcaster of Iran International TV channel, said in a statement that two of its journalists have received “death threats from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” calling this a “dangerous …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has issued a death sentence against Mahan Sedarat, a man arrested during the nationwide protests sparked by the September death of a 22-year-old woman in the custody of morality police. A judiciary source told IranWire that the sentence was handed by Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court and will be communicated to Sedarat’s lawyer …

Iranwire – Universities in Iran remain in chaos as nationwide student protests have entered their eighth week. This year’s new academic year started in the middle of widespread public anger triggered by the September 16 death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police. Young men and women, including university students, have been at the forefront of the …

Iranwire – Prominent Iranian activist Hossein Ronaghi’s life is in danger as his Evin Prison hunger strike hits 47 days, his family have told IranWire.  “Hossein’s life is in danger. Hossein is ill and has already lost his left kidney,” Ahmad Ronaghai, his father said. “And it has been determined that Hossein’s right kidney is now 40% damaged.” Ahmad Ronaghi was transferred …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces fired tear gas Monday at people participating in a ceremony to mark the third day since the death of a young man, Erfan Zamani, a 23-year-old student and construction worker who was killed last Thursday in Lahijan by security forces. He was from Siahkel city and had traveled to Lahijan to participate in recent protests. A large …

Iranwire – The crackdown by the Islamic Republic of Iran on the nationwide protest movement triggered by the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police has intensified day by day. The number of casualties recorded over the past seven weeks illustrates the unrelenting violence to which the mostly peaceful protestors, from children to the elderly, …

Iranwire – Almost every day, IranWire receives reports about young people who have met their death in the hands of brutal security forces cracking down on nationwide protests. On Sunday, November 6, an informed source said an 18-year-old man named of Esmail Heydari was killed about a month ago in Tonekabon, on the Caspian Sea, but his family was forced …

VOA – The death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman who was detained by the country’s morality police for breaking a rule that mandates females wear hijabs, has sparked nearly two months of protests in every province across Iran. Videos on social media have shown Iranian women lighting their headscarves on fire, cutting their hair in public and …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO)- In a statement, 227 of the 290 members of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Parliament) called on the Judiciary to issue and carry out the death penalty for protesters. Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, the Head of Judiciary also asked judges to issue sentences more swiftly. Iran Human Rights strongly condemns the statement by the 227 MPs who it emphasises, …