Health and Hygiene

Iranwire – The family and friends of an Iranian lawyer who has been behind bars for more than three months are raising deep concerns over his health after he said he was suffering from internal bleeding in his kidney. In December 2022, security forces abducted Seyed Mohammad Amin Jafari Hosseini from his home in the central city of Shiraz, amid …

Iranwire – It has been almost six months since Iran’s nationwide protests began, triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, who died while in the custody of the country’s morality policy. IranWire has in that time identified more than 50 protesters who have suffered serious injuries to their eyes – and in many cases, blinded – because of the violent tactics …

CHRI – Twenty prominent human rights lawyers from Iran today published a letter urgently calling for an independent, joint committee—comprised of experts from the world’s top public health, children’s rights, and education-focused UN agencies—to immediately investigate the poison gas attacks against schoolgirls that have occurred across Iran over the last several months. “Due to the Iranian government’s incompetence—or unwillingness—to stop poison gas …

Iranwire – Hundreds of Iranian schoolgirls were taken to hospitals with poisoning symptoms on March 5, as poisoning incidents were reported in more than 80 schools across the country. Over the past three months, thousands of school students, mostly girls, were affected by a wave of illnesses, with symptoms including nausea, headaches, coughing, breathing difficulties, and heart palpitations. Some Iranians …

RFL/RE – A wave of illnesses at girls’ schools under mysterious circumstances has prompted many Iranians to pour into city streets across the country to call for the government to step down as speculation grows that the crisis was brought about by officials who have been slow to react. Protesters in Tehran’s Naziabad neighborhood and others in the capital chanted “Death to …

Al-Monitor – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi ordered authorities on Wednesday to investigate the poisoning of schoolgirls in the country. The poison attacks are furthering discontent with the Islamic Republic amid continued protests in the country.  Local reports have suggested that the wave of poisonings has been going on for months in different schools across Iran, with female students taken to the …

Shabtabnews – In a statement the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR) condemned the use of chemical poisons by Basij groups against young female students . The statement stated that : “Reliable news outlets have reported the death of at least one young female student, as a result of poisoning caused by the Basiji groups affiliated with the Islamic …

Shabtabnews – On the 8th February, IOPHR held an event at the UK parliament under the title of:  “How to Stop the Global Threat of the Iranian Regime”. The speakers at this event were Javaid Rehman – The UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Anna Firth MP – a Member of …

Iranwire – French national Benjamin Brière, who has gone on hunger strike for the second time since his incarceration in Iran in 2020, is being kept in “inhuman” conditions, his sister told IranWire. “We are just waiting for something to happen so he can return home” after being the “victim of a big injustice,” Blandine Brière said on February 8. …

Iranwire – The health of a French-Irish national imprisoned in Iran for more than four months is “getting worse,” with his eyesight starting to fail, his sister says. Bernard Phélan “can’t see clearly anymore,” after cornea surgery last year, Caroline Masse-Phélan said in a written statement to AFP news agency on February 7. Phélan, who suspended a dry hunger strike …