Human rights

Iranwire – Tehran police say legal cases have been filed against prominent Iranian cinema and television actresses for appearing at a public event without wearing a hijab. The Tehran Police Information Center announced the cases on May 2, after earlier reporting that legal cases had been filed against actresses Katayoun Riahi and Pantea Bahram for similar offenses. The center cited “unveiling the hijab in …

Iranwire – The name of Khavaran, a cemetery southwest of Tehran, has long been associated with the criminal history of the Islamic Republic. Many victims of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, whose bodies were never identified or returned to their families, are buried here in unmarked, mass graves. Also resting there are Baha’is who are buried in a plot …

Iranwire – Two and a half years after the passage of the “Rejuvenation of the Population and Protection of the Family” law and a multitude of directives issued by various department of the executive branch, efforts to carry out the wishes of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who for years has been obsessed with increasing Iran’s population, has continued. In recent …

Iranwire – In a statement published on April 25, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported that “Iran’s security forces repressing widespread protests have unlawfully killed, tortured, sexually assaulted, and disappeared children as part of a pattern of serious violations.” The New York-based group investigated abuses against 11 children between September 2022 and February 2023, and documented new details about two previously reported …

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. …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Two Baluch Men and a woman were executed for drug-related charges in Birjand Central Prison. At least one was secretly executed. According to Hal Vash, three Baluch minorities including a woman were executed in Birjand Central Prison on 30 April. They were all sentenced to death for drug-related charges by the Revolutionary Courts. One of …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Three Baluch men were executed for drug-related and murder charges in Zahedan Central Prison and Iranshahr Prison. According to Hal Vash, two Baluch men were executed in Zahedan Central Prison and one in Iranshahr Prison on April 29. The two men executed in Zahedan were identified as 48-year-old Nematollah Rigi Ladiz (known as Abdollah Roudini) and Abdolsattar Shahuzehi who …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ahmad Nikouyi, a man sentenced to death for adultery, has been executed in Karaj Penitentiary. Though Iranian law proscribes stoning for adultery, a punishment last carried out in 2010 after international pressure raised the political cost of its use. Those sentenced to stoning are secretly executed by hanging instead. According to information obtained by Iran …

Iranian political activist Abdollah Momeni did not mince his words when describing the clerical establishment, comparing it to a drunken captain steering his ship toward a cliff. The passengers on the ship, Momeni said, needed to take control and change course before it was too late. “I believe the Iranian nation is currently facing such a situation,” Momeni said. “Finding a …

VOA —Four thousand Iranian petrochemical workers on strike over pay and conditions in an energy-producing region of the country’s south will be sacked and replaced, state media reported. The employees in Bushehr province have demanded salary increases and improved conditions for accommodation and transport, an official in charge of the Islamic republic’s oil and gas sector in the region was …