Human rights

VOA – The British government summoned Iran’s most senior diplomat in London on Monday to protest what it said were serious threats against journalists living in Britain, as ministers launched a new security review into Iranian activities. On Saturday, a London-based television station critical of the Iranian government said it was moving its live broadcasting studios to the United States …

CHRI — A joint letter by 39 women’s and Iranian human rights organizations calls on EU countries to summon their ambassadors in unison on International Women’s Day, March 8, and demand the Islamic Republic: Stop detaining and committing violence against women who are calling for basic rights and freedoms in Iran.End the physical and sexual violence against women detainees and protesters.Cease all executions of …

RFL/RE – The European Union will impose sanctions against dozens of Iranians, including judges, for their role in imposing death penalties on protesters, Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said on February 20. “Judges, prison workers, people who sentence others to death, dozens of them will get on the list,” Asselborn said before a meeting with other foreign ministers from the …

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. …

Shabtabnews – In a twitter statement USCIRF commissioner expressed alarm by reports that officials at Karaj Central Prison are denying Gonabadi Sufi prisoner Dr. Hamid Gharehassanlou hospital care for severe intestinal bleeding. He must be granted proper medical attention immediately. USCIRF Commissioner @SKleinbaum: "USCIRF is alarmed by reports that officials at Karaj Central Prison are denying Gonabadi Sufi prisoner Dr. …

Iranwire – “After being captured, a Muhareb’s (Enemy of God’s) repentance will not be accepted and his punishment is the same as the Quran said. Killing in the most brutal way. …Tazeer (flogging) must tear the skin, pass through the flesh and break the bone.” Mohammadi Gilani, head of the courts of the Islamic revolution, Johmouri-e-Islami newspaper, September 20, 1981 *** …

Iranwire – A female member of the Construction Engineering Organization of Tehran province flung away her headscarf at the election of its board of directors after she was barred from running because she did not wear the mandatory hijab. A video that went viral on social media on February 17 shows the mainly men audience applauding when Zainab Kazempour threw …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have detained a prominent Kurdish labor activist and transferred him to a detention center of the Ministry of Intelligence, IranWire has learned. Osman Esmaili was arrested in the northwestern city of Saqqez on February 8 without a judicial warrant. Branch 3 of the Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Saqqez told the family he was being held at …

Iranwire – An Iranian court has sentenced six men to death and six others to a total of 70 years in prison for their alleged involvement in the 2018 killing of four members of the security forces in the southern province of Khuzestan, activists say. The Norway-based Iran Human Rights Organization reported that the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court handed capital punishment …

RFL/RE – Reza Khandan, a civil activist and the husband of prominent Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, says he has been summoned by the judiciary to serve an older suspended sentence of five years in prison. In an interview with RFE/RL, Khandan said the suspended sentence was issued four years ago after he was found guilty of “propaganda against the Islamic republic.”*Khandan was …