Amnesty – At least five individuals in Iran are under sentence of death in connection with the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising of 2022, while at least 15 others are at risk of the death penalty and eight have been arbitrarily executed following grossly unfair sham trials. The authorities have severely violated their fair trial rights and subjected many to torture …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Najibollah Dahmardeh, Balulch man on death row for drug-related charges, was secretly executed in Ghaemshahr Prison. According to Haal Vsh, a Baluch man was executed in Ghaemshahr Prison in Mazandaran province on 20 December. His identity has been reported as 41-year-old Najibollah Dahmardeh who was from Sistan and Baluchistan province and lived in Golestan province …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – State media have reported the execution of six unnamed men for drug-related charges in Ardabil Central Prison. According to Tasnim Ardabil, six men were executed in Ardabil Central Prison on 20 December. Four of the men were sentenced to death for “buying, carrying and possession” of methamphetamine and heroin.” The other two who are referred to …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Farzad Golmohammadi was executed for murder charges in Sanandaj Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison on 20 December. His identity has been established as 32-year-old Farzad Golmohammadi from a village in Kamyaran. He was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder by the Criminal Court. At …

iranintl – While the Iranian government’s response to reports about a large embezzlement of public funds has been mostly dismissive, the media continue to discuss its implications. Centrist Aftab News website in Tehran wrote in a commentary on Monday that the money in question, which could be more than $3 billion, is 15 times more than the funds needed to implement the long-awaited pension …

iranintl – During a televised interview on December 16, Melanie Joly, Canada’s Global Affairs minister, did not rule out designating Iran’s IRGC as a terrorist organization. A month ago, Prime Minister Trudeau would not even entertainthe possibility of designating IRGC. Joly’s comments thus signal a shift in Canada’s attitude towards the Islamic Republic of Iran and its revolutionary praetorian guard, the …

iranintl – The world is worried and determined to stop Iran from developing a nuclear weapon but has no way to reverse or even monitor its nuclear advances.  At the UN Security Council, the UK, France and Germany released a statement in which they stated they “remain determined that Iran must never develop a nuclear weapon and must reverse its nuclear …

RFL/RE – Filmmakers and movie festival organizers from around the world have called on Iranian authorities to drop all charges against two Iranian film directors and lift their travel ban. Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha had planned to travel to Paris in September for post-production on their new film, My Favorite Cake, but authorities confiscated their passports and informed them …

RFL/RE – The United States has charged two foreign nationals with supplying microelectronics to Iran for use in the drone program run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. The two men, Hossein Hatefi Ardakani of Iran and Gary Lam of China, are accused in an indictment unsealed on December 19 with conspiring to illegally export U.S.-made dual-use microelectronics to Iran. …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has sentenced Ashkan Fahim, a prominent Kurdish author and cultural activist jailed for more than 100 days, to 45 months in prison and two years in exile to the central city of Arak. The First Branch of the Mahabad Revolutionary Court issued the sentence during an online hearing on December 16 on charges of “gathering …