Human rights

alarabiya – An Iranian criminal court has sentenced a woman to prison over hijab violations after tracking her via a ‘smart’ CCTV camera, the Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) organization reported Thursday. They reported that Branch 1088 of the Tehran Criminal Court sentenced the unnamed woman for an alleged violation of the mandatory hijab laws. For all the latest …

iranhr.net – According to HRANA news agency, a woman was executed in Rajai Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison on 12 July. Her identity has been reported as Fatemeh Yousef Abadi who was sentenced to qisas for murder. She was transferred to Rajai Shahr Prison for execution from Qarchak Prison for along with another prisoner. The second woman was returned to her cell …

rferl.org – For over 20 years, the Imam Ali’s Popular Student Relief Society has worked on combating poverty and helping vulnerable children in Iran. But the charity, which has over 10,000 volunteers across Iran, has come under mounting pressure from the authorities in recent years. In 2021, an Iranian court ordered the independent NGO be dissolved, a ruling that was …

rferl.org – The three young sons of activist Abbas Deris have appealed to the authorities not to carry out the execution of their father — which would leave them as orphans — as fears grow his death sentence on charges he denies may be imminent. In a video circulated on social media, one of the three sons speaks as they …

rferl.org – An appeals court in Tehran has confirmed the two-year prison sentence handed to activist Sepideh Gholian for chanting a slogan against Iran’s supreme leader shortly after her recent release from detention. Gholian’s brother Mehdi announced the decision on July 11, adding the Islamic Revolutionary Court sentence includes two years of deprivation from using a smartphone, a two-year ban …

iranhr.net – According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Kerman Central Prison on 9 June. His identity has been reported as 23-year-old Hadi Shahuzehi from Zahedan. Hadi was arrested around three years ago and sentenced to death for drug-related charges by the Revolutionary Court. At the time of writing, his execution has not been reported by domestic …

rferl.org – Human rights activists say Peyman Golvani, a Kurdish political activist, has died while in custody at the Intelligence Detention Center at the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia, where another political prisoner, Mousa Esmaili, died less than 24 hours earlier. The human rights group Hengaw said Golvani died on July 9 after being transferred from the detention center to …

rferl.org – Prominent Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, considered by many as the voice of the unrest that has rocked the country’s Islamic leadership for almost a year, has been sentenced to six years and three months in prison on charges of “corruption on Earth” over tweets he posted supporting protesters. Rosa Etemad Ansari, one of Salehi’s lawyers, disclosed on July …

voanews – WASHINGTON – A U.S. media rights group says Iran has kept two jailed female journalists in legal limbo for more than a month after their trials began as a ploy to make global attention fade as it figures out what to do with the women whose detentions sparked outrage in the West. Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloufar Hamedi were …

rferl.org – Iran executed two men on Saturday over an attack on a Shia shrine that killed at least 13 people in October and was claimed by the militant group ISIS, Iranian state media reported on Saturday. The two were hanged at dawn in the southern city of Shiraz, the official news agency IRNA reported. For all the latest headlines …