Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – State media have reported the execution of two unidentified men for murder in Qezel Hesar Prison in Karaj. According to Javan Online, two men were executed in Qezel Hesar Prison in Karaj on 27 September. Only named as Ali and Bahram by state media, they were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder by the Criminal Court. Ali …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mohammad Vali Jabari was executed for drug-related charges in Isfahan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Isfahan Central Prison (Dastgerd) on 23 September. His identity has been established as 35-year-old Mohammad Vali Jabari who was sentenced to death for drug-related charges by the Revolutionary Court. Informed …

Iranwire – Mohammad Mehdi Vosoghian, a student at Isfahan University of Medical Sciences who has been in jail for a week, is said to be in a “critical” health condition. Vosoghian, 20, was apprehended by the Islamic Republic’s security forces on September 20 and is held in Isfahan’s Dastgerd prison. Concerns about his well-being have escalated since September 27, when …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has sentenced 17 people to fines and flogging for protesting last year the management practices of their employer, state-owned Iran National Steel Industrial Group, and their employment status, local media report. The semi-official ILNA news agency reported that the Revolutionary Court of the southern city of Ahvaz ordered the workers to pay a fine of …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces have arrested four female members of the Baha’i religious minority in the southern city of Shiraz and transferred them to an undisclosed location. According to information received by IranWire, Sahar Mohebpour and Roksana Vejdani were arrested at their workplaces on September 26, while Bahareh Qaderi and Setareh Ta’ami were apprehended at their residences. Some of …

Iran-HRM – On Wednesday, September 27, 2023, the Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office issued an indictment for Mahmoud Mehrabi, a resident of Isfahan detained in Dastgerd prison, on the charge of Corruption on Earth. In addition, this prisoner has also been accused of 186 other charges. The second investigation branch of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office of Mobarakeh in Isfahan province …

CHRI – A year-long state crackdown on civil society and dissent in Iran has been corroding the country’s education system, resulting in the arrests or detentions of at least 97 teachers over the past 12 months, as revealed by research conducted by the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Additionally, there have been at least 24 convictions of teachers …

CHRI — The release of the five American hostages held in the Islamic Republic of Iran is a welcome development. The imprisonment of these individuals, long-held unlawfully in the country, was a complete travesty of every international legal and ethical norm. Yet there are a number of concerns regarding the deal the Biden Administration struck with Iran to free them. …

Iranwire – The release of new guidelines for the Iranian universities of medical sciences, which include rules on how students should dress, has sparked a flurry of reactions among local media outlets and social media users. The Ministry of Health has recently unveiled a “code of conduct” which students and assistants of medical sciences faculties and universities are required to …

Iranwire – Shahryar Baratinya, a 27-year-old Iranian activist, was forcibly deported from Türkiye to Iran on August 3 and has been confined to solitary detention ever since.  For the first two weeks following Baratinya’s deportation and subsequent apprehension by Iranian security agencies, his family did not know if he was alive, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. …