Human rights

Iranhumanrights.org – Ahead of high-level talks between Iran and the European on human rights, the Foreign Ministry in Tehran has declared certain topics, including the death penalty, off limits. The “red lines” were drawn shortly after a senior member of Iran’s Parliament said the Islamic Republic should accept legitimate criticisms on the issue. “We have told [the Europeans] that we …

RFL/RE – At first, it sounds like a charming love story: Playmates who grow up side by side in an Iranian village go on to get married. But when Leila was wedded to Ali, she was 10 years old. He was 15. “It was nighttime and I was asleep. My neighbors rang the doorbell and came in and put a …

Amnesty – Iran’s authorities have used crude propaganda tactics to dehumanize death penalty victims in the eyes of the public and divert attention away from the deeply flawed trials that led to their death sentences, said Amnesty International in a new report published today. Broadcasting injustice, boasting of mass killing highlights how the Iranian authorities embarked on a media campaign …

Amnesty – On 2 August 2016, 25 Sunni men were executed in Iran for the vaguely worded crime of “enmity against God” without their families being notified. The authorities issued statements that attributed to the men a range of criminal activities and aired “confession” videos seemingly intended to dehumanize them. Amnesty International’s research shows that Iran’s justice system blatantly violated …

alarabiya -A UN committee on Tuesday urged Iran to cease enforced disappearances and the widespread use of arbitrary detention and has expressed serious concern about severe limitations on freedom of thought, conscience and religion or belief. The General Assembly’s human rights committee approved the measure by a vote of 85 in favor, 35 against and 63 countries abstaining. The assembly …

Iran Human Rights -Iranian authorities executed at least nine prisoners. Eight of the prisoners were reportedly hanged on drug related charges. On the morning of Sunday November 13, three unidentified prisoners were reportedly hanged at Rasht’s Lakan Prison (Gilan province, northern Iran) and six prisoners were reportedly hanged at Urmia’s Darya Prison (West Azerbaijan province, northwestern Iran). According to the …

Iranhumanrights.org – Dozens of businesses in Iran owned by members of the Baha’i faith have been indefinitely shut down by the authorities after some owners closed their establishments to honor the birthdays of two of the faith’s holiest figures. “We have done nothing wrong, but we know that the closure of Baha’i businesses on this scale throughout the country isn’t …

Iranhumanrights.org – At least eight political prisoners are currently on life-threatening hunger strikes in Tehran and Karaj to demand better conditions and reviews of their unjust prison sentences. Even though at least one political prisoner in Iran has died as a result of his hunger strike, judicial officials have not only ignored the worsening conditions of the hunger strikers, but …

Amnesty – Eight prisoners of conscience in Iran – among them human rights defenders, activists, artists and teachers – have gone on hunger strike to protest against their imprisonment. Their health is deteriorating fast – join us to call for their immediate and unconditional release. Mohammad Ali Taheri, spiritual teacher Iranian prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri has completed his …

Radiozmaneh – Shirin Ebadi Iranian human rights lawyer and Nobel Peace Prize laureate delivered a speech congratulating Zamaneh Media on the occasion of its 10th year anniversary. Referring back to a speech by Human Rights Ambassador of Netherlands, Kees van Baar who expressed hope of visiting Iran, Ebadi asked the western governments to maintain a dialogue with the real civil …