Human rights

Iranwire – Mizan news agency reported on Sunday that four prisoners have been executed on the charge of “collaboration with Israel”. This comes amid reports of protesters facing heavy sentences as mass anti-government protests continue across Iran. Four citizens, named Hossein Ordukhanzadeh, Shahin Imani Mahmudabad, Milad Ashrafi Atbatan and Manochehr Shahbandi Bejondi, were arrested in June of this year, charged with “intelligence …

Iranwire – A prominent Iranian human rights activist incarcerated in Tehran’s Evin Prison has published a letter urging the UN special rapporteur for human rights in Iran to investigate sexual assaults on women detainees. “Assaulting women during detention and in detention centers is part of the government’s suppression program against women protesters and fighters”, Narges Mohammadi wrote in the letter, …

Iranwire – Medical staff in the northern Iranian province of Alborz who refused flowers and sweets distributed by security forces last week are now under pressure from the authorities, IranWire has learnt. The incident occurred as Iran was marking Nurse’s Day on November 30 amid a wave of nationwide protests calling for more freedoms and women’s rights that has rocked …

Iran-HRM – Major violations of Human Rights in Iran included in this monthly are focused on continued protests that emerged throughout the country since September 16, 2022. The Iranian authorities are the least transparent regarding publication of statistics. They also operate in secrecy; therefore, it is very difficult to provide accurate figures on the violations of human rights. This report …

Al-Arabia – More than 200 people have been killed in Iran during anti-regime protests sparked by the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini in mid-September, authorities said on Saturday. The toll, provided by the interior ministry’s state security council, included security forces, ordinary citizens, “rioters” and armed anti-regime militants, according to a statement carried by state news agency IRNA. This is …

RFL/RE – Several Iranian student associations have accused authorities of deliberate “serial poisoning” after reports that a large number of students from at least four Iranian universities across the country fell ill. In a report on December 1, the Union Councils of Iranian students reported that several schools experienced outbreaks of poisoning after eating at cafeterias, including Kharazmi University in Karaj, near …

Shabtabnews – In a twitter statement USCIRF applauded the House passage of #HRes744, which highlights USCIRF’s reporting on Iran’s egregious mistreatment of Baha’is. USCIRF Commissioner @Skleinbaum: "We applaud the House passage of #HRes744, which highlights USCIRF's reporting on Iran's egregious mistreatment of Baha'is. We agree with the resolution's call for the US gov't to continue to publicly condemn these abuses." …

Iranwire – A member of Iran’s persecuted Baha’i religious minority has been arrested in the southern city of Shiraz to serve a six-month prison sentence handed down earlier this year, IranWire reports. Nasim Kashaninejad was arrested on November 28 at her home in the southern city of Shiraz and was transferred to Adel-Abad prison. Kashaninejad had not received any official …

Iranwire – The United States says it has designated Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, among others, as “countries of particular concern” under the U.S. Religious Freedom Act. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on December 2 that those designated as countries of particular concern – which also include Burma, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan …

Iranwire – Iranian Prosecutor-General Mohammad Javad Montazeri has said that access to the Internet should be entirely blocked in Iran, amid a heavy-handed state crackdown on weeks of nationwide anti-government protests. Known for its harsh Internet censorship, which includes banning thousands of websites, the authorities have to a large scale shut down the Internet for most of Iranians in an …