RFL/RE – At least 24 demonstrators are facing execution in Iran for joining protests critical of the authorities, according to a report published on December 10. Etemad, an Iranian daily news outlet, published a list compiled by the judicial authorities accusing 25 demonstrators of “waging war against God,” a charge which carries the death sentence according to Islamic legal opinion.

Shabtabnews – In a twitter statement USCIRF Commissioner asked “the US government and the international community need to urge Iran to immediately cease their attacks on peaceful protesters asking for greater religious freedom.” USCIRF Commissioner @RealEU4U: "The US government and international community need to urge Iran to immediately cease their attacks on peaceful protesters asking for greater religious freedom."— USCIRF …

Iranwire – IranWire has received reliable information confirming that at least 60 journalists have been detained since anti-government protests erupted across Iran in the middle of September. Thirteen of them have been released as of now. Other journalists have been summoned, threatened and had their electronic equipment seized. Security agencies of the Islamic Republic have reportedly requested the detained journalists …

Iranwire – Farideh Moradkhani, the niece of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, was sentenced to three years in prison after calling on the international community to cut ties with her country’s government. Moradkhani’s lawyer Mohammad Hossein Aghassi made the announcement in a tweet on December 9, saying that the sentence was handed down by a “special clergy court” which didn’t have jurisdiction …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Does the EU know that the Russian President Vladimir Putin has received huge support for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine from the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? Iran has been supplying kamikaze drones to Russia. That is why the Ukrainian foreign ministry reportedly stripped Iran’s ambassador in Kyiv of his accreditation and reduced the embassy’s diplomatic staff there. …

Iran-HRM – On the International Human Rights Day, Iran Human Rights Monitor releases its annual report. The very first Human Rights Charter was written by Cyrus the Great in 538 B.C. It also symbolizes the grand civilization of Iran. The Human Rights Charter is an inclusion of the Iranian people’s service to peace, justice, and a global civilization. At a …

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities’ arbitrary arrest, intimidation and harassment of relatives of children, unlawfully gunned down or beaten to death by security forces in connection with protests, exposes their inconceivable cruelty and sinister attempt to cover up their crimes, said Amnesty International today.    In updated research, Amnesty International has documented how the unlawful killings of children by Iran’s security forces …

Al-Monitor — The execution of Mohsen Shekari at a prison outside Tehran on Thursday unleashed a barrage of furious reactions from ordinary Iranians in the midst of the anti-government unrest that has engulfed Iran for nearly three months.    The early morning announcement on Thursday marked the first known death penalty carried out against a detainee arrested in the ongoing protests and sent …

Al-Monitor – A dissident Iranian journalist who went missing in Turkey in May has resurfaced in the hands of the Iranian authorities and was placed in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran, according to his lawyer in Turkey. Mohammad Bagher Moradi contacted his family in November for the first time since his disappearance in Ankara, saying he was in custody in Tehran, …

Al-Monitor – The Biden administration on Friday unveiled fresh sanctions targeting three Iranian officials involved in the repression of the country’s nationwide protests and other human rights abuses.  Among those targeted by the US Treasury Department was Ali Akbar Javidan, the Law Enforcement Forces (LEF) commander in Iran’s western Kermanshah province who the department described as having direct oversight of forces that have killed …