Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Hamid Asgarinia was executed for rape charges in Qom Central Prison. According to HRANA news agency, a man was executed in Qom Central Prison on 30 July. His identity has been reported as Hamid Asgarinia from Arak. He was arrested for charges of rape, kidnapping and robbery and transferred to Saveh Prison. He was later …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Hossein Gomashadzehi, Yousef Kalbali and an unidentified Baluch man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, were secretly executed in Zahedan Central Prison. According to Hal Vash, three Baluch men were secretly executed in Zahedan Central Prison on 1 August. Two of the men’s identities have been reported as 72-year-old Hossein Gomshadzehi and 30-year-old Yousef Kalbali. …

HRW – Iranian Judiciary Requires Actresses to Undergo Psychological Treatment. In recent cases, Iran’s judiciary has ordered actresses to undergo psychological treatment, as part of their sentencing after being convicted for not complying with compulsory hijab laws. Iranian mental health associations have protested the orders. In a letter to the head of the judiciary, four mental health associations called the orders an …

RFL/RE – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court has sentenced two female journalists, Saeedeh Shafiei and Nasim Soltanbeigi, to prison terms and imposed social restrictions on them, marking a continued clampdown on press freedom in the country. Shafiei, a seasoned journalist with over two decades of experience, was sentenced on July 31 to two years in prison along with two years of social deprivation, …

RFL/RE – The Iranian government has suspended the operating license of Azki.com, a startup specializing in online insurance sales, following the publication of images showing some of its female employees without the compulsory hijab, as the government continues to tighten its enforcement of dress-code regulations. The suspension was announced by the Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic …

Iranwire – Iran’s judiciary has denied that two female journalists have been detained for 10 months for having reported on the September death in police custody of Mahsa Amini. Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi “cooperated with the hostile government of the United States on occasions,” judiciary spokesman Massoud Setayeshi told a press conference on August 1, adding that “a comprehensive …

Iranwire – Mahvash Nikjoo was born in 1936 into a Baha’i family in Tehran. Her father, Zabihullah Nikjoo, was studying law when Mahvash was born. Zabihullah was part of the first group of graduates from the Law School of Tehran University. Following the completion of Zabihullah’s studies, the Nikjoo family relocated to the northeastern city of Mashhad. Mahvash Nikjoo received …

Iranwire – The whereabouts of at least 15 people arrested in the central Iranian city Isfahan 20 days ago remain unknown. The 15 men and women were detained simultaneously by security forces at 7 a.m. on July 11 in various locations across Isfahan. The families have not been informed of the reasons for the arrests and the locations where they …

newarab – On Saturday, 29 July, a group of exiled Iranians staged a protest outside the International Neuroscience Institute (INI) in Hanover, Germany, over the alleged admission of Hussain Ali Nayeri, a notorious Iranian “hanging judge”. Despite INI officials denying Nayeri “now being” in this health centre, the demonstrators demanded his arrest and trial and a response from the German authorities about …

arabnews – Frustration as other foreign nationals were set free. Occasional phone calls, months apart. And the constant fear that the executioner’s noose could be tightened any day.The family of Jamshid Sharmahd have endured three years of torment as each day they await a breakthrough, while always fearing the worst, for the German citizen sentenced to death in Iran.Sharmahd was …