Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – At least 138 people have been executed in 2023 (two and a half months) in Iran. 88 of those were executed for drug-related charges. In the last fortnight alone (1-15 March), at least 29 people (an average of two a day) were executed in Iranian prisons. Iran Human Rights warns of the high number of …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Salman Momeni, a man sentenced to death for drug-related charges, was executed in Arak Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Arak Central Prison on March 12. His identity has been established as Salman Momeni from Ilam. He was sentenced to death for drug-related charges by the …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s government has arrested more than 100 people who it believes are responsible for a mystery illness that has affected potentially thousands of the country’s schoolgirls, with many attributing the sickness to poisoning.As videos continue to emerge online of distressed young people being taken to clinics and hospitals, toxicologists, chemical-weapons researchers, epidemiologists, and political scientists have explored possible explanations, in …

Iranwire – As IranWire has reported, hundreds of Iranians have sustained severe eye injuries after being hit by pellets, tear gas cannisters, 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 – The U.S.-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has urged the international community to sanction Iran for sentencing Iranian-Swedish dissident Habib Chaab to death after “luring” him to Turkey and taking him to Iran. Chaab was tried and condemned for leading a “terrorist group” and organizing and carrying out “numerous bombings and terrorist operations” in southwestern Iran. …

Iranwire – Protesters took to the streets of multiple Iranian cities on the evening of March 13 to call for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, ahead of Chaharshanbe Suri, the Persian festival of fire. Videos shared on social media show demonstrators in cities including Tehran, Sanandaj, Kamiyaran and Mashhad, chanting “Woman, life, freedom,” the main slogan of the nationwide …

Iranwire – The Iranian authorities are accusing the lawyer representing the family of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old woman whose death in September 2022 while in police custody has led to nationwide unrest, of spreading “propaganda against the regime,” activists say. The Kurdistan Human Rights Network, a France-based group that monitors the human rights situation in western Iran’s Kurdish region, said …

Iranwire – Schoolgirls in at least two western Iranian cities were reportedly taken to medical centers for treatment on March 13, amid a wave of poisonings that have affected thousands of pupils across the country over more than three months. The Telegram channel of the group Bazaar Civil Protests released a video purportedly showing anxious residents of Kurdistan province’s city …

Amensty – Iranian authorities have been subjecting activist Ebrahim Babaei to enforced disappearance for 15 months, amid grave concerns of torture and other ill-treatment. Despite mounting evidence indicating that he is in state custody, authorities continually refuse to acknowledge his detention or reveal his fate and whereabouts to his family. He was forcibly disappeared in December 2021 during an attempt …

CHRI – An Iranian-born Swedish citizen and dissident, Habib Farajollah Chaab, who was reportedly lured to Turkey by Islamic Republic agents and then forcibly taken to Iran in 2020, is at risk of being executed after the Iranian Supreme Court upheld his death sentence. “Chaab was a hostage from the moment he was abducted and taken to Iran against his …