Human rights

Iranwire – Religious freedom in Iran worsened in 2022, as it does every year in the country, and affecting the lives of religious minorities of every background. The following special IranWire report looks at the situation facing members of each minority religious community – including groups recognized by the Islamic Republic, and those not considered to be legitimate religious communities …

Iranwire – Amnesty International says a Belgian aid worker imprisoned in Iran for more than a year is being held in solitary confinement in a windowless basement cell with bright lights turned on 24 hours a day and is denied access to adequate healthcare and fresh air, which the group said amounted to torture. Iranian authorities are subjecting Olivier Vandecasteele, …

Iranwire – Leily Pourbaba is a 31-year-old Iranian software engineer, webpage designer and women’s rights activist who lives in Tabriz, capital of East Azerbaijan province. She has posted online the picture of a security agent in the neighborhood of Shahnaz and information about him. For doing this, she was arrested by Cyber Police and spent three months in Tabriz Central …

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 …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ebrahim Rigi, a Baluch protester recently released on bail, has died in the custody of the 12th District police in Zahedan. Meanwhile, authorities have claimed Ebrahim Rigi had died after being arbitrarily arrested by “private claimants” and “without police presence.” Recalling the Islamic Republic’s history of propaganda and misleading news, staging and obtaining torture-tainted forced …

RFL/RE – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will help kick off the latest and longest-ever session of the UN’s top human rights body on February 27, with Iran’s foreign minister, a senior Russian envoy, and the top diplomats of France and Germany among scores of leaders set to take part. The more than five-week session of the Human Rights Council opens …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Alireza and Safar Mohammadpour (Shahuzehi), two Baluch brothers sentenced to death for drug-related charges, were executed in Torbat Jam Prison, Khorasan Razavi province. According to Hal Vash, two Baluch brothers were executed in Torbat Jam Prison on February 20. Their names have been reported as 28-year-old Alireza  Mohammadpour (Shahuzehi) and 31-year-old Safar Mohammadpour (Shahuzehi) from …

RFL/RE – Hundreds of schoolgirls have fallen sick and scores have been hospitalized in Iran’s holy city of Qom in recent months, with some parents and officials suspecting they were poisoned. But the authorities, which have launched an investigation into the mysterious wave of illnesses, have not found any evidence of poison. No deaths have been reported. The incidents have …

Iranwire – It all started outside Tehran’s Kasra Hospital on September 16. A few days earlier, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman from the western city of Saqqez, in Kurdistan province, went on a trip to the capital and never returned home. While she was walking toward Tabiat Bridge, she was detained by agents of Gasht-e Ershad, the morality police. Two …

Iran-HRM – “They first threw us into a black van and blindfolded us with a blindfold, tied our hands with a wire, and then they took us to a place that was unknown to me. Then they took mobiles, bags and all our things, even the cosmetics inside the purse and without any questioning during the transfer and inside the …