Human rights

iranintl – The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Iran, Mai Sato, has warned that the Islamic Republic is increasing its use of executions as a tool to suppress dissent as she presented her first report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday. “The pace is accelerating with at least 169 known executions identified in …

iranintl – Iranian civil society organizations convened in Geneva on Monday to present evidence of human rights violations in Iran with a focus on the persecution of Baha’is. The session, held during the UN Human Rights Council meeting, included discussions on minority rights, state repression, and accountability. A panel hosted by the Baha’i International Community, the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center, and …

Iranwire – For two years, three women lawyers from Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Argentina have investigated the Islamic Republic’s violent suppression of protests as part of a United Nations fact-finding mission. They’ve interviewed victims, reviewed evidence, and documented what they have determined was a “crime against humanity” committed by the Islamic Republic. In interviews with IranWire, the human rights experts – …

Iranwire – Reza Khandan has begun a hunger strike after prison officials beat his son and blocked family visits, his daughter Mehraveh reported. “It has been more than three months since my father’s arrest, and during this time, Nima and my mom have only been able to visit him once, and I not even once, Mehraveh wrote on Instagram. She …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during their crackdown on the 2022 protests following Mahsa Amini’s death, a UN fact-finding mission concluded in a report released on Tuesday. The Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran documented “gross human rights violations” during its two-year investigation into the government’s response to nationwide protests. The report says that Iranian authorities continue …

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic’s Supreme Court has rejected political prisoner Hatem Ozdemir’s retrial request. The court informed Ozdemir’s lawyer of the decision on Thursday, according to the HRANA news agency. He has been on death row since his sentence was upheld in September 2024. Initially convicted of “armed rebellion” by Khoy’s Revolutionary Court in 2021, Ozdemir later faced a …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO); March 18, 2025: On the sidelines of the 58th session of the UN Human Rights Council, 42 human rights organisations issued a joint letter urging the renewal of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran. The signatories also called for the continuation of independent investigations into grave human rights …

Iran-HRM – On the last Tuesday of the Iranian year 1403 (March 18, 2025), prisoners participating in the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign in 38 prisons across the country will go on a hunger strike. In a statement issued on this occasion, the Campaign highlights the grim reality that the ruling religious dictatorship in Iran has brutally executed 1,148 prisoners …

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic intensified its persecution of Baha’i citizens over the past Persian year, with women facing particularly harsh treatment. Official data reveals that 246 Baha’is – 142 women and 104 men – were subjected to government actions ranging from imprisonment to workplace closures between March 2024 and March 2025. The number of Baha’i prisoners increased from 24 …

RFL/RE – Iran has escalated its crackdown on female singers in an effort to silence them. In past weeks, several women have been detained or summoned by authorities, while their Instagram pages have been shut down. Since the 1979 revolution, women in Iran have been banned from singing solo in public. But despite the restrictions, many female artists have turned …