Iran: Ukraine Airline Victims’ Families Harassed, Abused
(HRW) – Iranian authorities have engaged in a campaign of harassment and abuse against families of people killed in the Iranian Revolutionary…
Human rights
Iran: 6 Baluch Men Secretly Executed in Birjand Last Month
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - Six Baluch prisoners on death row for drug-related charges, were secretly executed in Birjand Central…
Letter to the Wife of Iran’s Chief Justice: Your Husband Killed My Husband
Iranwire - Effat Mahbaz lost her brother and husband during the massacres of political dissidents in the late 1980s. In…
Call to prevent the execution of political prisoner Mehran Gharebaghi
Iran-HRM - The Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) has recently informed the family of political prisoner Mehran…
Narges Mohammadi Sentenced for Prison Activism
Iranwire - Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced to another two and a half years in prison, 80 lashes and two…
Jailed Iranian protester says “no water, plenty of drugs” in Tehran prison
Iran-HRM - Jailed Iranian protester Hossein Hashemi detailed the poor conditions of the Greater Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) in a letter published on…
Iran: Female Prisoner Kobra Fatemi Executed in Yazd
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - A woman sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, has been executed in Yazd Central Prison. According to…
IHR Condemns New Ruling in Trumped-up Case Against Narges Mohammadi
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - In a new trumped-up case, human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, who was released from prison…
Saleh Shariati, Juvenile Offender Sentenced to Death Based on Qassameh Acquitted in Court
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - Saleh Shariati, a juvenile offender arrested at 16 and sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) based on a qassameh despite witness testimonies…
Forced confessions in Iran: hundreds of political prisoners tortured
Iran-HRM - Inhumane treatment and torture of political prisoners to put them under profound psychological pressure is a common practice…