RFL/RE – The lawyer of Iranian protester Javad Ruhi, who has been handed three death sentences after being charged with “corruption on Earth,” says the cases against his client lacked evidence and witnesses. In an interview with the Tehran-based Shargh newspaper, lawyer Majid Kaveh reasserted that his client has denied the accusations “repeatedly and clearly” in interrogations as well as in …

Iranwire – An Iranian political activist who signed a letter in 2019 calling for the resignation of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been sentenced to a total of 18 years in prison, her brother says. Branch 1 of the Revolutionary Court in the northeastern city of Mashhad sentenced Fatemeh Sepehri on charges including “propaganda against the regime,” “cooperating with hostile …

Iranwire – Razieh Janbaz, the first Iranian woman to play with a foreign handball team, has announced that she has been banned from leaving the country, and shared a picture of herself without the mandatory hijab. “It is strange that a protester means a criminal,” the 26-year-old former member of the national handball team wrote on her official Instagram page …

Iranwire – An Iranian student union is accusing the president of Tehran’s Tarbiat Modares University of cooperating with the Ministry of Intelligence to suppress students amid an ongoing brutal crackdown on nationwide protests. The Student Union Council of Iran on February 21 said Farhad Daneshjou was using fear and threats to exert psychological pressure on the students and silence them. …

Iranwire – As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas cannisters, paintball bullets or other projectiles used by security forces amid a bloody crackdown on mainly peaceful demonstrations. Doctors say that, as of now, at least 580 protesters have lost one or both eyes in Tehran and in Kurdistan alone. …

VOA – Germany announced Wednesday it is expelling two Iranian diplomats in response to Iran’s sentencing a German national to death. The move came a day after Iranian authorities announced the sentence for Jamshid Sharmahd, who was convicted of terrorism charges.SEE ALSO:Iran Sentences Detained US-Based Opposition Figure to Death Iran accused Sharmahd, a German Iranian with U.S. residency, of leading …

Amnesty – Iranian authorities have forcibly disappeared Iranian Kurdish dissidents Pejman Fatehi, Vafa Azarbar, Mohammad (Hazhir) Faramarzi and Mohsen Mazloum for seven months, by concealing their fate and whereabouts from their families and lawyer since their arrests in July 2022. They are at grave risk of torture and other ill-treatment and unfair trials on charges that carry the death penalty. …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Jamshid Sharmahd, a 67-year-old Iranian-German dissident kidnapped from the UAE by Islamic Republic agents in July 2020, has been sentenced to death for corruption charges without due process or a fair trial. Strongly condemning the death sentence, Iran Human Rights also criticises the international community’s relative silence on his abduction, torture and trial by the …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) –  Nojoumi Moradi, a man sentenced to qisas(retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Urmia Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Urmia Central Prison on February 16. His identity has been established as 42-year-old Nojoumi Moradi. An informed source told Iran Human Rights that Nojoumi was arrested two years …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Three men sentenced to death for drug-related charges, were executed in Arak Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, three men were executed in Arak Central Prison on February 14. One of the men has been identified as Mostafa Majnouni. The identities of the other two men have not been established at the …