Researchers say Iran’s doing nothing to protect young people from addiction
Al-Monitor - Amid a host of pressing economic grievances, flaring tensions with the West and Israel and a nuclear deal…
Human rights
Teachers Call For New Protest As Unrest Builds Across Iran
RFL/RE - The Iranian Teachers' Unions Coordination Council has called for a new round of street protests to demand higher…
EMBARGOED New Report: Biden’s Silence on Killing of Protesters in Iran Reflects Flawed Policy
CHRI - Repression of Civil Society Harms U.S. Security Interests *This report is embargoed until it is published on June 14, 8am…
Rights Groups Call on Meta to Fix Persian Content Moderation for Instagram
CHRI — In a joint statement released today, human rights organizations ARTICLE 19, Access Now, and the Center for Human…
Blood-Soaked Fatwas: How Khomeini Turned Homicide Into Policy in Iran
Iranwire - Every year on June 3, the anniversary of the 1989 death of Ruhollah Khomeini, the Iranian state and,…
Details Emerge on Mass Execution of Baluchis on Iran’s Western Border
Iranwire - On Monday, June 6, some 12 members of Iran’s Baluchi ethnic minority were hanged at dawn in Zahedan…
Iranian teachers go on hunger strike to protest unlawful detention
Iran-HRM - Eskandar Lotfi, a member of the Managing Board of the Marivan Teachers’ Association, detained by the Intelligence Agency…
Sattar Arghandeh Executed for Murder in Ilam
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) - Sattar Arghandeh who was sentenced to qisas for murder, has been executed in Ilam Central Prison. According…
Baluch Nourahmad Baranzehi Executed for Drug Charges in Isfahan
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) - Nourahmad Baranzehi, a Baluch man sentenced to death for drug-related charges has been executed Isfahan…
HRW Calls On Foreign Governments To Prosecute 1988 Iranian Mass Killings
RFL/RE - Human Rights Watch (HRW) says overwhelming evidence shows that the Iranian authorities' mass execution of thousands of political…