Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least 469 people including 63 children and 32 women, have been killed by security forces in the current nationwide protests. The death toll increase relates to recently verified cases from the first two months of the protests. Furthermore, at least 39 protesters are currently at risk of execution or death penalty sentences. There is serious concern about …

Al-Monitor – Iranian authorities aided by notorious judges have started carrying out execution sentences against protesters as demonstrations approach their fourth month and pose one of the most serious challenges to the ruling theocracy in Iran. To date, two protestors have been executed, eleven are sentenced to death row and six have been slapped with charges that are punishable by a death …

Al-Arabia – Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that the ongoing anti-regime protests in Iran are unprecedented and that they have led to Washington “rethinking” the tattered 2015 Iran nuclear deal. To read the full transcript, click here. The current protests have swept across Iran since September 16 when 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini died after being detained by …

RFL/RE – An Iranian political prisoner has sent a voice message to Javaid Rehman, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, describing what he says is the torture that he has faced in detention. Khaled Pirzadeh, a former bodybuilding champion who has been in Ahvaz Central Prison since June 2019, told Javaid Rehman in his message that he has suffered …

RFL/RE – A 15-year-old Iranian teenager imprisoned in the central Iranian city of Karaj has been released after an interview with his mother went viral on social media. Amirhossein Rahimi’s mother told the Tehran-based Etemad newspaper that her son had been in prison for two months, even though he still had pellets in his head and chest from wounds inflicted by security …

Shabtabnews – In a tweeter statement USCIRF after welcoming the UN expulsion of Iran from UN Commission on women, also condemned the harassment, threats, arrests, rape, & murdered of Iranian women and girls by the Iranian regime. USCIRF Commissioner @Skleinbaum: "Iran's removal from @UN_CSW is long overdue to confront the Iranian officials' systematic & egregious violence against women & girls …

Iranwire – An unknown number of Iranian protesters were violently arrested or killed in Karaj on November 3, after security forces attacked a crowd who had gathered to mark the 40th day since 20-year-old Hadis Najafi died in the northern city after being struck by gunfire. Forces affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) detained Darya Nazmdeh, 27, on the spot. …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have arrested well-known lawyer Mohammad Ali Kamfiroozi, IranWire reports. Kamfiroozi was arrested on a Tehran street before his house was searched by security agents. The lawyer has been defending several protesters who are being prosecuted over their involvement in nationwide protests that erupted after the September death of a young woman in the custody of morality …

Amnesty – At least 26 people are at great risk of execution in connection with nationwide protests after Iranian authorities arbitrarily executed two individuals following grossly unfair sham trials in a bid to instil fear among the public and end protests. Of the 26, at least 11 are sentenced to death and 15 are charged with capital offences and awaiting …

CHRI – At least 11 men have been sentenced to death in the Islamic Republic, and 24 others are facing charges that could carry the death penalty, raising fears of more executions following the recent hangings of two young men for their participation in the protests that have swept Iran. “Lynching committees masquerading as courts are threatening people with death …