Human rights

Iranwire – Razieh Janbaz, the first Iranian woman to play with a foreign handball team, has announced that she has been banned from leaving the country, and shared a picture of herself without the mandatory hijab. “It is strange that a protester means a criminal,” the 26-year-old former member of the national handball team wrote on her official Instagram page …

Iranwire – An Iranian student union is accusing the president of Tehran’s Tarbiat Modares University of cooperating with the Ministry of Intelligence to suppress students amid an ongoing brutal crackdown on nationwide protests. The Student Union Council of Iran on February 21 said Farhad Daneshjou was using fear and threats to exert psychological pressure on the students and silence them. …

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. …

Amnesty – Iranian authorities have forcibly disappeared Iranian Kurdish dissidents Pejman Fatehi, Vafa Azarbar, Mohammad (Hazhir) Faramarzi and Mohsen Mazloum for seven months, by concealing their fate and whereabouts from their families and lawyer since their arrests in July 2022. They are at grave risk of torture and other ill-treatment and unfair trials on charges that carry the death penalty. …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Jamshid Sharmahd, a 67-year-old Iranian-German dissident kidnapped from the UAE by Islamic Republic agents in July 2020, has been sentenced to death for corruption charges without due process or a fair trial. Strongly condemning the death sentence, Iran Human Rights also criticises the international community’s relative silence on his abduction, torture and trial by the …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) –  Nojoumi Moradi, a man sentenced to qisas(retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Urmia Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Urmia Central Prison on February 16. His identity has been established as 42-year-old Nojoumi Moradi. An informed source told Iran Human Rights that Nojoumi was arrested two years …

Iranwire – On February 15, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) presented its Press Freedom Award to Iranian journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, who have been imprisoned for publishing reports about the death and the funeral of Mahsa Amini. Shahram Rafizadeh, an Iranian journalist, received the award from Canadian writer and poet Margaret Atwood on behalf of her two …

Iranwire – A court in Iran has sentenced to death an Iranian-German national who has spent more than 1,000 days in solitary confinement. Jamshid Sharmahd, who also has U.S. residency, was convicted of the charge of “corruption on Earth by planning and directing terrorist acts,” the public relations department of the judiciary of Tehran province said on February 21. It …

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. …

Iranwire – Iranian political prisoner Mohammad Abolhasani has gone on a hunger strike to protest his “inhumane conditions of detention,” IranWire has learned. On February 20, murder suspects were moved to the political prisoners’ ward of Qazvin’s Chubin prison, in northwestern Iran, where they threatened to kill Abolhasani, according to an informed source. The source quoted one prisoner as telling …