Human rights

Iranwire – Alireza Hosseini, 28, died after being hit by a stray of bullets fired by security forces on September 23 during a street protest in Eslamshahr, Tehran Province. This report tells Hosseini’s story through the eyes of an eyewitness who spoke to IranWire. This witness spent three weeks looking for the victim’s family before finally meeting with his father. …

Iranwire – On December 27, 1981, six Iranian Baha’is, seven men and one woman, who had been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court, were executed. They were charged with being members of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Iran. The eight had been tried behind closed doors and without access to any lawyer, even a public defender, …

Iranwire – The husband of an Iranian journalist who has been behind bars for three months has asked supporters to write her letters. Niloofar Hamedi was arrested in a raid on the couple’s home September 22 by Ministry of Information agents, who ransacked the property and confiscated their laptops and mobile phones. She was one of the first journalists to …

Iranwire – “God may not forgive the state TV reporter who has turned to an interrogator and then a judge, and issued a verdict within two minutes that devastated a family,” the father of Aylar Haqqi, a 23-year-old victim of the security forces’ brutal crackdown on nationwideprotests, said while standing next to his daughter’s grave. “People tell me to seek justice …

VOA – Bernard Phelan, a French Irish tour operator who has been detained in Iran for the past three months, was “in the wrong place at the wrong time,” his sister said Wednesday. Phelan’s family spoke with The Irish Times about the diplomatic dispute he is involved in. According to the Times, Phelan, 64, was arrested by Iranian police on Oct. 3. He …

Iran-HRM – On the evening of Monday, December 26, 2022, a 17-year-old boy by the name of Mehrdad Malek, was accompanying a friend in his car. They were returning from their farm in Dashtabi district in Ardaq, Qazvin Province. A police patrol car becomes suspicious of them and tracks their path. their car. The police patrol car gets stuck in …

Al-Arabia – Iran must stop executing and persecuting protesters and should open a dialogue with them, Italy’s Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Wednesday after summoning the Iranian ambassador. Tajani said death sentences against people who take part in demonstrations or women who refuse to wear headscarves were a massively disproportionate and unacceptable form of punishment.

RFL/RE – Iran has arrested at least 44 independent lawyers since ongoing antiestablishment protests erupted in September. They include lawyers who have represented protesters arrested in the violent state crackdown on the demonstrations. Around half of the lawyers have been released on bail, while the rest are still in prison. They include Mohammad Ali Kamifiruzi, who represented jailed journalist Nilufar Hamedi, and …

RFL/RE – Sepideh Rashno, a 28-year-old writer and artist arrested earlier this year for refusing to wear the mandatory hijab head covering while using public transport, has been handed a five-year suspended sentence. The court found Rashno guilty of charges of “gathering and colluding against the country’s security,” “propaganda activity against the government,” and “appearing without a hijab in public,” her brother …

RFL/RE – Iranian protesters took to the streets in various Iranian cities on December 26, continuing their anti-government protests triggered by the death in September of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. Videos published on social media purportedly showed that in Dashti, a city in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, people took to the streets after marking 40 days since the …