Human rights

Iranwire – Iranian security forces have arrested 13 participants in a ceremony held in Tehran to honor a 19-year-old victim of the Islamic Republic’s ongoing brutal crackdown on nationwide protests. Family members and other mourners gathered at Hamidreza Rohi’s grave in Behesht Zahra cemetery on January 7 to mark the 40th day since his death. Special police forces and plainclothes …

Iranwire – Three years ago, on January 8, 2020, a Ukraine International Airlines passenger plane crashed shortly after it took off from Tehran while en route to Kyiv, killing all 176 people on board. After days of official denials, the Iranian authorities admitted that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps mistakenly shot down flight PS752 with two missiles, amid heightened tensions …

VOA – Pope Francis condemned Iran’s execution of protesters for the first time on Monday in his traditional New Year’s address to diplomats, and said the war in Ukraine was “a crime against God and humanity.” The pontiff made his remarks in a speech to diplomats accredited to the Vatican, his overview at the start of the new year which …

Iran-HRM – Hassan Firouzi, 34, the father of a newborn girl was arrested by Iran’s security forces during nationwide protests on October 27, 2022, in his hometown Shahr-e Ray. He took part in protests that occurred on Enghelab Street in Tehran. His baby daughter, Hannaneh, was only 18 days old at the time of his arrest. Hassan Firouzi now faces …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – The Islamic Republic’s Judiciary announced the execution of Karaj protesters Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini who were sentenced to death for charges of efsad-fil-arz (corruption on earth). Condemning the criminal executions in the strongest possible terms, Iran Human Rights warns of the execution of a large number of protesters in the coming days if this …

CHRI – The hanging in Iran today of two men who were arrested in connection with street protests, Mohammad Mehdi Karami, 22, and Seyed Mohammad Hosseini, 39, is an escalation of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s use of lethal force to crush dissent that should be urgently addressed by the international community, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran …

Iranwire – The name Forouhar reminds most Iranians of Dariush Forouhar, the prominent nationalist politician who, with his wife Parvaneh, were assassinated in 1998 in what became known as the Chain Murders of intellectuals and critics of the Islamic Republic. But 16 years before these killings was the murder of an elderly couple with the same surname, Mahmoud Forouhar and his wife Eshraghieh, …

Iranwire – In our “Did You Know?” series of articles, IranWire collects, analyses and compares reliable data to produce illuminating infographics on current events in Iran. *** Link  Did you know that nearly a quarter of all female journalists imprisoned in connection with their work around the world on December 1, 2022, were being held in Iran? According to Reporters …

RFL/RE – An Iranian female teacher who was dismissed after appearing in a video online while not wearing the mandatory hijab has slammed the Education Ministry as a “misanthropic institution.” In a message published by the Coordinating Council of Teachers Syndicates (CCTS) on Telegram, Atekeh Rajabi wrote that while the ministry considers her dismissed, she said she looks at the situation the …

RFL/RE – Fifteen Iranian women incarcerated in the Kachoui prison near Tehran have gone on a hunger strike to protest the conditions of their imprisonment and the lack of medical attention at the facility. Among those on the hunger strike is 22-year-old Armita Abbasi, who was arrested on October 10 in Karaj by security forces amid nationwide protests triggered by …