CHRI – Three women prisoners of conscience in Iran, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Narges Mohammadi and journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi, are confronting additional prison sentences on sham charges. The state persists in its attempts to coerce women into submission for the mere exercise of basic rights, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran. “These prisoners of conscience face relentless abuse …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Akram Karimpour, a Kurdish man on death row for drug-related charges, was executed in Hamedan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a Kurdish man was executed in Hamedan Central Prison on 16 January. His identity has been established as 37-year-old Akram Karimpour from Saqqez. Informed sources told Iran Human Rights that …

iranintl – In a show of force amid heightened regional tensions, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unleashed a barrage of ballistic missiles against “enemies” in Iraq and Syria. Iranian missiles hit several locations in Syria’s northwest and Iraqi Kurdistan Monday night, in what IRGC claimed to be retaliatory attacks against ISIS and Israeli spies. The attack on targets in Idlib, Syria, Tehran …

iranintl – Dissident singer-songwriter Shervin Hajipour’s new song Ashghal (Trash) has broken the record on Instagram in the past year with 35 million plays in the first 24 hours. In 2022 Hajipour’s song “Baray-e Azadi” (For Freedom), which he composed by taking lines from protesters’ social media posts, turned into an anthem and unofficial manifesto of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom protests …

Iranwirw – Iraq has recalled its ambassador from Tehran and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Baghdad in protest over deadly Iranian missile strikes on its semi-autonomous Kurdish region. The overnight attack was “a blatant violation of the sovereignty of the Republic of Iraq, strongly contradicts the principles of good neighborliness and international law, and threatens the security of the region,” the …

Iranwire – The US military says it seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry from a ship bound for Yemen’s Houthi rebels in a raid last week. Navy SEALs conducted the January 9 raid in the Arabian Sea, with the commandos launching from the guided missile frigate USS Lewis B. Puller backed by drones and helicopters, the US military’s Central …

Iranwire – Iran’s Ministry of Health has attributed a staggering 13.9 percent of all natural deaths in the country to air pollution.  “Tehran ranks 19th among the world’s worst capitals in terms of concentration of suspended particles,” Abbas Shahsavani, who heads the ministry’s air health and climate change group, told Tasnim news agency on January 16. According to him, the …

Iranwire – A Kurdish political prisoner jailed over his participation in Iran’s 2022 uprising attempted suicide in protest of his long-term prison sentence, according to a group that monitors rights violations in the country’s Kurdish regions. The Norway-based group Hengaw quoted an informed source as saying on January 16 that Vahid Chavaran was hospitalized in critical condition in Ilam after …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has sentenced two Iranian women activists to six years in prison on charges related to their political activities, according to a U.S.-based human rights network. HRANA said on January 16 that the Revolutionary Court in Karaj, near Tehran, also ordered Maryam Jalal Hosseini and Fatemeh (Mojgan) Tadrisi to spend two years in exile after their …

Iranwire – Iran’s Supreme Court has overturned the death sentence imposed on a police officer accused of killing a protester during the 2022 uprising.  Mehran Samak was fatally shot in the head in Bandar Anzali on the evening of November 29, 2022, amid protests that followed the match between the US and Iranian national football teams in the World Cup …