Human rights

Iranwire – It has been reported that an Iranian court sentenced 17 workers to fines and flogging for protesting last year the management practices of their employer, the state-owned Iran National Steel Industrial Group, and their employment status. According to the semi-official Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA), the Revolutionary Court of the southern city of Ahvaz ordered the workers to …

Iranwire – Iran’s Shargh newspaper says security forces arrested one of its reporters on October 2.  It said that Maryam Lotfi was taken into custody after visiting Fajr Air Force Hospital to report on the situation of a girl who had lost consciousness in the Tehran subway.  According to some reports, a high school girl was sent to the hospital …

Iranwire – The repression against professors and university students deemed as critical to the Islamic Republic continues unabated in Iran. During the first week of the new academic year, at least nine male students and three female students were barred from entering Tehran’s Amirkabir University of Technology, according to Amirkabir News Telegram Channel. A number of these students had previously …

Shabtabnews – On the anniversary of Bloody Massacre and Tragedy in Zahedan IOPHR issued a statement. In the statement IOPHR stated “One year has elapsed since Zahedan’s Bloody Friday. On the 30th of September last year, a horrifying act of violence occurred in Zahedan, Iran, an incident that continues to haunt every advocate of freedom. Unarmed Iranian worshipers, returning from …

iranintl – Iranian authorities have been shutting down cafes around Tehran University campus in the past eighteen months to “protect the wholesome Islamic-Iranian culture.” Closing cafes and coffee shops, which are very popular with students and other young people, is apparently part of the larger plans of the ruling hardliners to shut down all such establishments as symbols of “corruptive …

Iran Human Rights – A year has passed since Zahedan’s Bloody Friday when at least 104 people including 14 children and 4 women were gunned down with assault rifles and machine guns within hours after worshippers gathered to protest after Friday Prayer. Some of those killed were bystanders. Yet, the perpetrators of this heinous crime have not been held accountable. …

Iran-HRM – Javad Roohi’s handwritten notes reveal that he endured the most severe torture while in prison.Javad Roohi was a protester arrested during the 2022 protests in Nowshahr. He had been sentenced to three executions but was recently murdered in Nowshahr prison. His published manuscripts show that he endured severe beatings and torture, so much that the wound on his …

CHRI – Update on September 30, 2023: Since yesterday, Iranian state security forces attempting to suppress anti-state protests in the city of Zahedan have injured at least 29 individuals—including eight children.In the provinces of Sistan and Baluchestan, specifically in the cities of Zahedan, Khash, and Mirjaveh, at least 51 individuals have been confirmed as arrested since last night, as reported by …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces fired tear gas, live rounds and pellets at protesters in the southeastern city of Zahedan, wounding at least 19 people, according to local reports. The shooting took place near Makki Mosque on the eve of the first anniversary of Zahedan’s Bloody Friday, a tragedy that claimed the lives of more than 100 people, according to …

Iranwire – Heavily armed Iranian forces deployed across Zahedan ahead of the first anniversary of the Bloody Friday massacre, which claimed the lives of more than 100 people in the southeastern city.  The authorities, fearing a flare up in protests ahead of the September 30 anniversary, put Makki Mosque, the largest Sunni mosque in Iran, under siege, according to Haalvsh, …