Human rights

Iranwire – An Iranian teenager took her own life earlier this week after being suspended from school for three days for not wearing a mandatory headscarf and for having her nails polished, IranWire has learned.  Zahra Hatami, an eighth-grade schoolgirl from the city of Shahriyar, near Tehran, threw herself from a building on October 2 because she feared her father’s …

Iranwire – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Iranian authorities not to detain and harass journalists covering the brutal physical assault against a 16-year-old girl in a Tehran subway station. Sources told IranWire that Armita Geravand fell into a coma after being reportedly assaulted by hijab enforcement officers on October 1. The teenager was transported to …

Iranwire – Younes Azadbar, a labor activist incarcerated in the northern city of Rasht, has described his recent hospitalization following an epileptic episode, saying that both his legs and one hand were tied to his bed with “handcuffs and chains.” “I’m Younes Azadbar, a political prisoner in Rasht’s Lakan prison who previously spent 11 years in the prisons of the …

RFL/RE – Iranian security forces have detained hundreds of people as protesters in the country’s southeast marked the first anniversary of the killing of scores of demonstrators in the region, according to a human rights group. Haalvsh, a group that monitors rights violations in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan Province, said on October 2 that at least 216 people, including minors, had been arrested across …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least five men including two Baluch minorities, were executed for drug-related charges in Kerman Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, five men including two Baluch minorities were executed in Kerman Central Prison on 1 October. The Baluch men’s identities have been established as Avaz Moradi and Ramezan Khorshid who were …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Hamidreza Khodabandeh who was sentenced to death for security-related charges and four unidentified men were executed in Shiraz Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, five men were executed in Shiraz Central Prison (Adel Abad) on 1 October. One of the men has been identified as Hamidreza Khodabandeh Farsimdan Qashqai who was …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Jafar Ghaed, a man on death row for murder, was executed in Ahar Prison in East Azerbaijan province. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Ahar Prison on 27 September. His identity has been established as Jafar Ghaed, a 35-year-old man sentenced to qisas(retribution-in-kind) for murder. An informed source told …

Iranwire – The 16-year-old Iranian girl who fell into a coma after being pushed by hijab enforcement officers in a Tehran subway station for not wearing a headscarf has been identified as Armita Geravand. The Norway-based Hengaw group, which monitors rights violations in Iran’s Kurdish regions, reported on October 3 that Armita, from western Kermanshah province, is under stringent security …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have arrested four members of the Baha’i religious minority in central Yazd and transferred them to an undisclosed location. The detainees are Mojgan Basiri, Shokofeh Basiri, Vida Ehrari, and Jamal Qadirzadeh. Security forces raided Mojgan Basiri’s house on Sunday evening and arrested her along with three guests who were at the house.  The agents searched the …

Iranwire – A week after the reopening of Iranian universities, reports from independent student sources indicate a trend of increasing security pressures and the widening scope of repression in universities.  A report published on the Amirkabir Newsletter Telegram channel, which covers news related to this university, said that one day after the professors of the Sharif University Professors Union were …