Human rights

Iranwire – In the early years of the 2000s, several Iranian footballers who played for Pas FC claimed they had been forced to sign up with the club after being arrested in police raids on parties and other gatherings. At that time, the club’s chairman, Mostafa Ajorlou, who serves as a commander in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), …

Iranwire – An Iranian court in the eastern city of Zahedan has sentenced a 22-year-old disabled protester to death on the charge of corruption on Earth,” human rights activists say, amid a brutal state crackdown on nationwide anti-government protests. Mansour Dehmordeh, an ethnic Baluch, went on trial on January 3 and was informed of his sentence by the judge two …

Iranwire – An Iranian journalist was hospitalized for a few hours after she fainted during a court hearing in which the charges against her were being heard, IranWire reports.   Nazila Maroufian fell unconscious on January 4 in the courtroom in the city of Varamin, near Tehran, according to sources with knowledge of the matter. The sources said Maroufian was transferred …

Al-Arabia – Iran has sentenced another man to death over involvement in anti-regime protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, state media reported on Thursday. A man identified as Arshia Takdastan was sentenced to death after being convicted of the capital charges of “corruption on earth” and “waging war against God,” the semi-official ISNA news agency reported. ISNA described …

IranWire – received a video on November 21 that showed the body of a teenage boy lying on the ground covered in blood and a crowd around him calling for an ambulance. The person who sent the video said that Reza Kazemi,16, was hit by several bullets fired by members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Reza, who was …

Iranwire – Schoolgirls across Iran have joined the nationwide unrest by defiantly posting pictures of themselves without their headscarves, writing “Woman, Life, Freedom” on the walls, singing the anthem of the protest movement “For” and ripping portraits of Ruhullah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei, the former and current leaders of the Islamic Republic. The crackdown on under-18s has been brutal, with …

CHRI – The Islamic Republic’s persecution of athletes for peacefully supporting anti-state protests that have been ongoing throughout the country since September 2022 should be publicly condemned by sports federations and the international community, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Women and male athletes have been shot and killed, sentenced to death by kangaroo courts, disappeared and …

Shabtabnews – In an open letter to Mr. Josep Borrell , the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR) , while expressing grave concerns about the disturbing cases of rape and sexual assault by the prison officials of the IRI against children arrested by the regime, requested that “the European Commission appoint a special and independent commission in order to …

RFL/RE – An Islamic revolutionary court in Tehran has sentenced civil and labor activist Neda Naji to a prison term and flogging for attending a protest in support of Mahsa Amini, who died while in police custody in September. Naji’s mother, Mehraneh Ghasemi, wrote on her Instagram account on January 3 that her daughter was sentenced to eight months in prison, 60 …

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic of Iran is increasingly holding online trials for demonstrators arrested during the ongoing nationwide protests, according to a group that tracks detentions in the country, raising concern over the defendants’ rights in the absence of an independent judicial system. Online trials have been held in Iran since the peak of the coronavirus pandemic in November …