Human rights

Iranhumanrights.org – Omid Kokabee’s Release Comes After Months Struggling with Kidney Cancer That Was Left Untreated in Prison Imprisoned Iranian scientist Omid Kokabee, who spent more than five years in Evin Prison for refusing to work on Iran’s military projects, was granted conditional release on August 29, 2016. Kokabee, currently on medical leave, was diagnosed with kidney cancer this past …

Iranhumanrights.org – The recently released audio recording of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri sharply denouncing the mass execution of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 has highlighted disagreements among prominent figures of the Islamic Republic that arose from the decision by Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran’s 1979 revolution, to put thousands of political dissidents to death. Iranians who were …

Iranhumanrights.org – High Number of False Arrests Would Require Large Payout More than a year after Iran’s new Code of Criminal Procedure went into effect, the Judiciary is resisting implementing Article 255, which grants individuals the right to sue the government and seek damages for false arrests. According to Article 258, the National Criminal Compensation Commission (NCCC)—consisting of the chief justice of …

RFL/RE – Iran’s official news agency reports the country has launched the first phase of its National Network of Data, an attempt by Tehran to create its own Intranet. The new network aims to promote online Islamic content and encourage less dependency on the worldwide Internet, IRNA reported on August 28. The National Network of Data would aim to also …

Radiozamaneh – Figures at various levels of the Islamic Republic continue to react to the release of audio files involving conversations between the late dissident cleric Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri and top government figures regarding the “death committee” in charge of the mass execution of political prisoners in Iran in 1988. by Mohammadreza Sardari Hassan Khomeini a reformist political figure …

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Reuters – The death penalty has failed to reduce drug trafficking in Iran, a senior Iranian judiciary official said on Saturday shortly before the scheduled execution of 12 people for narcotics-related offences. His criticism was unusual in a judiciary that has long been a bastion of the hardline security establishment in the Islamic Republic, which carries out more executions per …

HRANA News Agency – After the execution of at least 20 Sunni prisoners in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, fears and concerns about the fate of other prisoners in the prison with the similar charges and cases have increased. Among the death row prisoners of “Tohid and Jahad” case, only two prisoners, including a juvenile offender have survived from recent mass-executions of Sunni prisoners …

IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS –  Iran Human Rights (IHR) reported yesterdayabout the imminent danger of execution for more than 10 prisoners in Karaj Central Prison. According to IHR sources 12 prisoners were executed in this prison early this morning, Saturday August 27. IHR sources have identified nine of the prisoners who were executed this morning: “Alireza Madadbour, Bahman Rezaei, Arman Bahrami, Alireza …

unpo.org – Twenty-five Kurdish prisoners executed by the Iranian Regime in the beginning of August bore marks of torture, according to their families and to the Iranian Human Rights organisation ‘the Defenders of Human Rights Centre’. Family members of the executed have spoken of how their relatives and the other prisoners who were arrested with them were physically abused by Iranian …