Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Child Bride Samira Sabzian who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for the murder of her husband, is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday, 13th of December. Her two children visited her in prison for the first time to bid goodbye and she has now been transferred to solitary confinement in Qarchak Prison.  Iran Human Rights calls on …

alarabiya – The only thing Iran and Israel share is that both do not believe in a two-state solution, Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Monday via translation at an international forum in Doha. During the forum, Amir-Abdollahian reiterated Iran’s proposal that a referendum be held to determine the fate of Palestine, with only descendants of those who lived …

alarabiya – Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Monday the Nordic country demanded that Iran immediately release Swedish EU employee Johan Floderus from prison. Kristersson told a news conference Floderus, who was arrested in Iran 2022, was arbitrarily detained. Iranian authorities have accused Floderus, held in a Tehran prison for more than 600 days, of conspiring with Iran’s arch-enemy Israel to …

iranintl – Iranians are posting dance videos on social media in support of a man who is being prosecuted for singing and dancing in the street and posting the videos on Instagram.  The fishmonger, Sadegh Bagheri (aka Boughi) in his late sixties, became an Instagram celebrity in recent months after videos of his folk songs and dance at the bazaar …

iranintl – Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, imprisoned in Tehran, has criticized Western governments for their half-hearted support for Iranians who fight for democracy and human rights. In her acceptance speech –sent from the notorious Evin prison, read by her teenage daughter in Oslo– Mohammadi said the Islamic Republic is in a state of “unstable equilibrium” with very little popular …

iranintl – The IRGC is indifferent to who becomes Iran’s next president or the outcome of parliamentary elections in March, its deputy commander Ali Fadavi has said. During a speech at Jondi Shapur University in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, Fadavi emphasized that the crucial aspect for the IRGC is that the Iranian people heed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s directive to participate in the elections. …

Iranwire – The mother, father and brother of Mahsa Amini were scheduled to depart from Tehran last week to attend the 2023 Sakharov Prize ceremony in Strasbourg on December 12. However, the authorities prevented Mojgan Eftekhari, Amjad Amini and their son Ashkan from boarding their flight at Imam Khomeini International Airport on December 8. In October, the EU parliament awarded its prestigious Sakharov Prize …

Iranwire – More than 100 members of the European Parliament have urged Iranian authorities to allow Mahsa Amini’s family to leave the country to receive the 2023 Sakharov Prize at a ceremony in Strasbourg on December 12. The travel ban imposed by the Islamic Republic’s authorities on Mahsa’s relatives “is unlawful as they are not subject to any charge or …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has sentenced Mohammad Sadeghi, an actor who has openly supported nationwide protests that rocked the country last year, to five years in prison. In a video posted on his Instagram page on December 10, Sadeghi said that Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court had sentenced him on charges of “inciting people to war and against …

Iranwire – The teenage children of Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi have received the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of their jailed mother at a December 10 ceremony in Oslo, reading an acceptance speech their mother had managed to smuggle out of Tehran’s Evin prison. In the speech read by twins Ali and Kiana, 17, Mohammadi said: “I …