Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – State media have reported the execution of an unidentified man for murder in Gorgan. According to Iran Online, a man was executed in Gorgan. The report which was published on 20 June, does not specify the date or exact location of the execution. The man only named as Hamed, is alleged to have committed murder …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Danesh Salari, a Baluch man sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Kahnuj Prison. According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Kahnuj Prison on 19 June. His identity has been reported as 24-year-old Danesh Salari from Koulgan village in Roudbar. He was arrested for murder around three years ago in …

RFL/RE – A number of Iranian activists and rights group have come out in support of protesting students at Tehran’s University of Art, warning them against increasing enforcement of dress codes, especially head scarves for women, across the country. The activists said in a statement titled “The voice of society’s majority to the entire system of the Islamic republic” that …

RFL/RE – The trial of Iranian hip-hop artist Toomaj Salehi, who was arrested during nationwide anti-government protests in November, has been conducted behind closed doors, his legal representatives have disclosed. Representatives from the parliaments of Germany, Austria, New Zealand, and Italy, who have become Salehi’s political sponsors, announced on June 22 that the court proceedings concerning the singer’s charges were held …

RFL/RE – The sister of Mujahed Korkor, an Iranian protester facing the threat of execution in the southwestern city of Izeh, has gone missing after his family home was raided twice by the Iranian security forces. Reports of the raids on the Instagram account of Yasna Bakhtiari, another of Korkor’s sisters, said security forces raided the house on June 21, engaged in …

Iranwire – Peaceful protests in multiple cities across the south-eastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchistan took a violent turn after security forces intervened to disperse the demonstrators. Ethnic Baluch protesters took to the streets of the provincial capital, Zahedan, and other cities including Iranshahr, Rask, Chabahar and Saravan after Friday prayers on June 23, calling for the overthrow of …

Iranwire – The life of Ali Rezaei, a 39-year-old yoga instructor and teacher of Turkish language, took a devastating turn on December 11, 2022, when security forces stormed his home in Mianeh in the north-western province of East Azarbaijan, seized his electronic devices and other personal belongings, and took him to custody. Blindfolded and handcuffed, Rezaei was transferred to Tehran’s …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has sentenced political activist Ahmedreza Haeri to three months and one day in prison on charges of “spreading lies,” local media reported.  Branch 1040 of the Criminal Court in Tehran handed down the sentence in absentia on June 21, as Haeri was serving a previous conviction in Tehran’s Evin prison. The plaintiff in the latest case, the Tehran …

Iranwire – As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas canisters, paintball bullets or other projectiles used by security forces amid a bloody crackdown on mainly peaceful demonstrations. Doctors say that, as of now, at least 580 protesters have lost one or both eyes in Tehran and in Kurdistan alone. …

RFL/RE – A group of hackers has reportedly leaked government documents suggesting Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi approved the use of at least 100 trillion Iranian rials ($200 million) to put down protests during the recent nationwide unrest sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in September while she was in police custody for an alleged head-scarf offense. The hackers, known as Uprising …