Human rights

Iranwire – The daughter of Jamshid Sharmahd, a German-Iranian man sentenced to death in Iran, has asked authorities in Germany to open criminal proceedings against Iranian judicial authorities, alleging crimes against humanity. Gazelle Sharmahd filed a criminal complaint with the German federal prosecutor’s office against eight high-ranking members of the judiciary and the intelligence service, the Berlin-based European Center for …

Iranwire – Mandatory hijab laws cost Iranians up to 45 trillion tomans ($900 million) per year, according to new research by Iran Open Data.  In a recent article, the collaborative initiative explained that these expenses is borne by Iranians in two ways. – The indirect costs: Iran Open Data estimates that the current government budget allocates around 9 trillion tomans …

VOA – One by one, the 10 women, mostly aged under 30, went defiantly to their deaths by hanging in a city square in Shiraz in southern Iran. The youngest was only 17 years old. They had been charged with crimes including espionage but, for supporters around the world, they were simply being hanged because they were Bahais, and refused …

RFL/RE – Five more teachers who supported anti-government protests in Iran have been summoned to the Revolutionary Court, the latest in a series of similar moves, including trials, of teachers in other cities across the country. The Iranian Teachers’ Union’s Coordination Council has confirmed the collective summons of teachers and cultural rights activists in the central Iranian city of Yazd. Three of …

Iranwire – A criminal court in Tehran has sentenced a woman to 270 hours of unpaid cleaning work for allegedly violating mandatory hijab rules in public places, the feminist Twitter account Bidarzani reported. “The accused must work for four hours daily in the building of the Ministry of Interior and its associated departments such as the governor’s office” in the capital, it …

Iranwire – A plot to assassinate outspoken Sunni cleric Molavi Abdulhamid has been foiled, the Haalvsh human rights organization reported on June 19. Haalvsh, a group that monitors rights violations in the south-eastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, said the security guards of Zahedan’s Makki Mosque arrested a man masquerading as a religious student who wanted to poison Molavi. The …

Iranwire – The UN human rights chief called for greater cooperation with the international human rights system as he addressed rights emergencies in Iran and dozens of other countries around the world. In his annual review presented to the Human Rights Council in Geneva, which opened its 53rd regular session on June 19, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker …

Iranwire – The Canadian government says it has sanctioned seven Revolutionary Court judges for their role in “gross and systematic human rights abuses.”  “As an institution closely tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Ministry of Intelligence, the Revolutionary Courts are notorious for issuing death sentences and harsh prison terms following sham trials and based on evidence …

CHRI – At least a dozen student groups from universities across Iran have issued strong statements of support for fellow students who are facing severe persecution at the Art University of Tehran for peacefully protesting forced-hijab rules and punishments on campus. “University students at the Art University and across Iran are being jailed, banned and flunked for peacefully protesting repressive and discriminatory forced hijab …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) –  Hadi Al-Nasser and Abbas Khanjari were executed for murder charges in Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Sepidar Prison on 19 June. Their identities have been established as 34-year-old Hadi Al-Nasser and Abbas Khanjari. They were sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder in the same case. An …