Health and Hygiene

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Following the arrest of MirYousef Younesi, father of elite jailed student Ali Younesi, three of his colleagues have been arrested and forced to pose in front of camera watching Sima Azadi (Mojahedin-e-Khalgh’s television channel). While intensifying state repression, the Islamic Republic is also dehumanising and spreading hate against political groups and linking detainees to them …

Iranwire – Health workers play a critical role in society, for example by serving at the frontlines in protecting people from the covid pandemic, and this has included hundreds of Iranian Baha’i doctors and nurses. But these Iranian healthcare workers are not in Iran; instead, they live in countries around the world, treating their patients, where they are admired and …

Iranwire – France’s government says it is “extremely worried” about the health of a 64-year-old French-Irish citizen who is on hunger and water strike in an Iranian prison. The French Foreign Ministry said on January 17 that Bernard Phélan’s health is “fragile” and “requires appropriate medical monitoring, which is not provided in his place of detention.” The ministry said it was working …

Iranwire – An Iranian student and political activist who has recently been released from custody last week described the living conditions in the prison where she was incarcerated as “horrific.” Leila Hosseinzadeh is among more than 18,000 Iranians who have been detained in connection with the anti-government protests that have swept Iran over the past four months. Hosseinzadeh was released …

CHRI – Since anti-state protests broke out across Iran in September 2022, following the killing in state custody of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini, hundreds of peaceful protesters have been killed by state security forces and thousands arrested. Two young men have also been executed, and at least 15 have been sentenced to death while at least 43 are facing charges that could carry …

Shabtabnews – In a twitter statement USCIRF commended US sanctions against high-ranking officials complicit in egregious religious freedom violations, and asked US government to ” continue to hold Iranian officials fully accountable & we urge other govs to do the same .” USCIRF Cmmr @Skleinbaum: "USCIRF commends @StateDept and @USTreasury for today's sanctions against high-ranking officials complicit in egregious religious …

Iranwire – His last Instagram post was a video of victims of the current protests. Hamidreza Sayadi, 39, a father of one, was injured in the protests in Iran and died on November 27. The only surviving parts of his body, his eyes, were donated so that in a way he could witness the day of freedom. Sayadi is another …

Iranwire – Sepehr Ziaei, a 62-year-old Iranian Baha’i, is one of several Baha’is who have been detained in recent weeks in the country. He has been held in Ward 209 of Evin Prison for more than 77 days. Ziaei has only been allowed one 10-minute meeting with his relatives – and that after waiting more than two months. Iranian authorities have …

Iranwire – Medical staff in the northern Iranian province of Alborz who refused flowers and sweets distributed by security forces last week are now under pressure from the authorities, IranWire has learnt. The incident occurred as Iran was marking Nurse’s Day on November 30 amid a wave of nationwide protests calling for more freedoms and women’s rights that has rocked …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – UN experts including four Special Rapporteurs, have today called for the immediate release of prominent human rights defender, Arash Sadeghi who suffers from a rare type of bone cancer and has been deprived of his medication since his arrest in October. Noting that Arash Sadeghi’s case is not an islolated one, the experts also expressed …