Human rights

Iran-HRM – The Revolutionary Court of Tehran issued two separate statements announcing the death sentence for four protesters. The defendants’ names are not mentioned in these statements but reports and documents from previous trial sessions do indicate some names. Names of individuals such as Mohammad Ghobadlou, Mohammad Boroghani, Sahand Noor Mohammadzadeh, and Mahan Sadrat Madani. The Revolutionary Court of Tehran …

On Wednesday night, November 16, as Iranian protesters commemorated November 2019 uprising for the second day, they witnessed crime against humanity committed against the people in Izeh. State security forces and the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) opened fire on the protesting people in many cities and severe clashes took place. A number of people were killed and some injured. Heavy clashes …

Al-Monitor – Nearly 30 people were killed in less than 48 hours as Iranian cities witnessed a flare-up of anti-government protests, which have rocked the nation since mid-September when 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in the custody of religious police. Thursday’s violence was markedly widespread in the western Kurdish city of Boukan. According to footage and reporting by activists and media …

Shabtabnews – UN resolution on on human rights condition in Iran was released for discussion and vote in the UN and as of today, the results are the following: Vote of 79 in favor, 28 against, and 68 abstentions.  To note, Paragraph 15 of this resolution deals directly with Mahsa Amini and the ensuing protests after her death.  Paragraph 16 …

RFL/RE – Lawyer and rights activist Hassan Asadi Zeidabadi has been arrested amid Iran’s state crackdown on protests triggered by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. Zeidabadi’s wife, Atefeh Khalafi, said on social media that her husband was arrested on November 16 by the intelligence branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Several thousand have …

Iranwire – Iranian security forces have shot and killed at least 10 people in western Kurdish cities and towns over the past 24 hours, IranWire reports, as anti-government protestors staged fresh demonstrations across the country. Riot police clashed with protesters in dozens of Iranian cities on November 16, with shopkeepers and businesses striking for the second consecutive day. Unknown gunmen …

Iranwire – A 17-year-old Kurdish teenager was shot and killed late on November 16, IranWire reports, as a brutal crackdown by Iranian security forces on protests claimed at least 10 lives in western Kurdish cities and towns over the past 24 hours. Danial Pabandi, 17, was riding his motorcycle in the Kurdish city of Saqqez when he was shot by …

VOA – They were unarmed and praying in a mosque when security forces fired indiscriminately from a nearby security post. One woman, while praying in full Islamic hijab, was killed by a tear gas grenade as several men hit by bullets were lying dead and wounded inside the same mosque on September 30. It is now called “the bloody Friday” …

Amnesty – The Iranian authorities are seeking the death penalty for at least 21 people in sham trials designed to intimidate those participating in the popular uprising that has rocked Iran since September and deter others from joining the movement, Amnesty International said today.  Since 13 November, the authorities have announced, in separate statements, that Revolutionary Courts in Tehran have …

CHRI – Almost anywhere else, it wouldn’t have been a big deal. But because she’s based in the Islamic Republic of Iran, prominent Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti made international headlines when she, for the first time, posted a photo of herself on her Instagram page without the state-mandated compulsory headscarf. “Woman! Life! Freedom!” reads the sign in her hands, the central slogan …