CHRI – Governments around the world should recall their ambassadors from the Islamic Republic in protest against the Iranian government’s hanging of protesters and killing of hundreds of peaceful demonstrators in the streets, and join the growing number of countries that have summoned Iran’s diplomats to directly express their outrage over the country’s actions, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) …

Iran-HRM – 35-year-old Javad Rouhi from Amol, north Iran, was arrested by security forces in Nowshahr. He was detained on September 22, 2022, for participating in nationwide protests. The Revolutionary Court of Sari sentenced him to death and his family is under pressure to keep silent.According to the order issued by the Sari Revolutionary Court, the pending charges against Javad …

Al-Monitor – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Thursday that his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, would travel to Turkey next week amid ongoing Russian efforts to convene the top Turkish, Syrian and Russian diplomats. Speaking in Rwanda, the third stop of his Africa trip, Cavusoglu said he would meet with Abdollahian next Tuesday, and “the Iranian President can also visit Turkey in the …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s state news agency IRNA said on Thursday Alireza Akbari, a former defense ministry official sentenced to death for spying for Britain, passed sensitive information to MI6 about an Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated in 2020 and other top officials. Akbari, who served as a deputy defense minister during the tenure of former president Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005), was sentenced …

Iranwire – On the evening of November 21, 2022, inmates gathered in Hall 1 in the women’s ward of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison to attend a hybrid theater/puppetry play that was written, directed and performed by prisoners jailed for their activities in support of civil and human rights. Sixteen inmates contributed to this one-time performance, which paid homage to Iranian …

Iranwire – The months-long nationwide protests in Iran demanding fundamental structural reforms to make the government more accountable underline the “grave risks” for autocracies of imagining that brutal repression will bring stability, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says in its annual world report on human rights. Protests erupted across Iran after the September death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, following her …

Iranwire – Iranian journalist Nasim Sultan Beygi has been arrested at Tehran’s international airport while she was trying to leave Iran, her mother says, amid an intensifying crackdown on media in the country Iran Jalili tweeted on January 11 that the arrest took place the previous night. “Her phone was turned off when she went to hand over her belongings …

Iranwire – The Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held. “The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,” the semiofficial Mehr news …

Iranwire – An Iranian singer has been arrested after releasing songs in support of the anti-government protest movement that has swept the country for nearly four months, IranWire reports. Fardin Naji was taken into custody on January 7 when armed forces stormed his house in Tehran and confiscated his personal electronic devices, according to relatives. In a short phone call …

Iranwire – The Iranian judiciary has charged another protester with “waging war against God,” which carries capital punishment, local media report, amid a brutal state crackdown on dissent triggered by nearly four months of nationwide demonstrations. The chief justice of western Kurdistan Province accuses Pouria Javaheri, a 30-year-old ethnic Kurd, of firing metal pellets at police officers during protests in …