Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); March 17, 2023: Kurdish political prisoner, Mohiyedin Ebrahimi was executed in Urmia Central Prison. Iran Human Rights strongly condemns Mohiyedin Ebrahimi’s execution and current execution wave. Director, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: “Mohiyedin Ebrahimi was sentenced to death without due process and fair trial rights by the Revolutionary Court and his execution is a violation of national and …

iranhr.net – Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); March 17, 2023: At least five men were executed for drug-related charges in the early hours of March 17 in Urmia Central Prison. Iran Human Rights strongly condemns their executions and considers it to be a part of the Islamic Republic’s organised crime of mass execution of drug death row prisoners. It calls on Iran’s …

31 Lawyers and Doctors Call for Freedom of “Peace-Seeking Lawyer and Human Rights Activist” In a joint letter published today, 31 doctors and human rights lawyers from within Iran and France called on the Iranian government to release imprisoned human rights lawyer Mohammad Najafi, who has been unjustly jailed in Iran since 2018. “Despite enduring terrible physical and psychological torture, …

voanews – Washington — Former U.S. President Donald Trump, in a social media posting Saturday, told his followers that, based on what he called leaks from the Manhattan district attorney’s office, he expects to be arrested Tuesday. Trump, in the message on his Truth Social platform, called on his supporters to “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” There is no confirmation from …

Ialarabiya.net – raq and Iran signed a border security agreement on Sunday, a move Iraqi officials said aimed primarily at tightening the frontier with Iraq’s Kurdish region, where Tehran says armed Kurdish dissidents pose a threat to its security. The joint security agreement includes coordination in “protecting the common borders between the two countries and consolidating cooperation in several security …

reuters – DUBAI, March 19 (Reuters) – The Iranian government has proposed to Saudi Arabia three locations for a meeting at foreign minister level, Iran’s foreign minister said on Sunday, citing the latest messages with Riyadh since the countries agreed to re-establish ties. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told a news conference in Tehran his country had agreed to such …

Iran court sentences two to death over deadly shrine attack reuters – DUBAI, March 18 (Reuters) – An Iranian court has handed out death sentences to two men over an attack on a Shi’ite shrine in Iran that killed 15 people in October and was claimed by the militant group Islamic State, the official news agency IRNA reported on Saturday. …

Al-Arabia – Iran has reportedly agreed to cease covert weapons shipments to the Houthi militia in Yemen as part of the China-brokered agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to restore diplomatic relations, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal citing US and Saudi officials. Saudi Arabia and Iran announced last week that they had reached an agreement, brokered by China, …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces re-arrested well-known civil rights activist Sepideh Qoliyan overnight, hours after she was released from more than four years in prison. After her release on March 15, Qoliyan posted on Twitter a video of herself without the mandatory hijab shouting slogans against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei outside Tehran’s Evin prison. “Khamenei the Zahhak! We’ll take you …

Iranwire – The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate, the Tehran Province Journalists Association (TPJA), are calling on the Iranian authorities to free all journalists and media workers imprisoned in the country for simply doing their job and stop the ongoing crackdown on the media. The IFJ and the TPJA said in a statement on March 16 that 15 journalists …