Human rights

Iranwire – Iranian security forces have arrested at least five children in a western Kurdish town over the past days, according to a Norway-based human rights organization, amid a heavy-handed state crackdown on nationwide protests. “In the past 11 days, at least 25 Kurdish citizens, including five children, have been arrested or abducted by the Iranian government forces in Abdanan, …

Iranwire – IranWire has recently obtained a voice note from a female inmate in Urmia prison, in northwestern Iran, saying that a 22-year-old woman committed suicide soon after being release from custody. The young woman, identified as Afsaneh,was arrested during recent anti-government protests, the source said. While in prison, she kept yelling at the other inmates she had been repeatedly …

Iranwire – Iran says it has sentenced four people to death for allegedly “cooperating” with the Israeli intelligence service, local media report. “This network of thugs was stealing and destroying private and public property, kidnapping people, and obtaining fake confessions”, the judiciary said on November 30. It said the suspects were arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and the …

Iranwire – Iran has reportedly indicted at least three Iranian doctors with “enmity against God” and “corruption on earth”, charges that carry death sentences. According to the Campaign of Baluch Activists, a doctor identified as Ibrahim Rigi was arrested in the eastern city of Zahedan on October 13 while he was returning from the hospital he was working. He is …

CHRI – At least three juveniles are among 15 individuals in the Iranian city of Karaj who are facing charges that could carry the death penalty in Iran’s “Islamic Revolutionary Court” system, which has a documented history of denying defendants due process while handing down politically motivated sentences, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “The government of …

Iran-HRM – It has been 40 days since political prisoner Loghman Aminpour was transferred to Evin Prison (Detention Center 241). Loghman remains under tortured and is kept in solitary confinement. He is repeatedly interrogated and tortured, which has raised serious concern for his family and relatives. Loghman Aminpour was transferred to Detention Center 241 of Evin Prison on October 19, …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Islamic Republic authorities have reported death sentences being issued against protesters, some of which have even been upheld by the Supreme Court. At least three children are also facing death penalty charges. Recalling the Islamic Republic’s history of using the death penalty as a tool of repression and intimidation, Iran Human Rights warns of the …

Al-Arabia – Iranian authorities have arrested the two actors behind a viral video where a group of film and theater figures stood silently without headscarves in solidarity with the protest movement, a rights group said Wednesday. The actor and director Soheila Golestani, who appeared without her headscarf in the video, and the male director Hamid Pourazari, who also appeared prominently, …

RFL/RE – The jailed spokesman of the Iranian Teachers’ Union’s Coordination Council has published a letter saying that, after he was transferred from Tehran’s infamous Evin prison to hospital due to illness, authorities chained him to the hospital bed for 12 days and denied him access to his lawyer and family. The Iranian Teachers’ Union’s Coordination Council published the letter written by …

Iranwire – Reports from Doha say pro-regime Iranian fans attacked anti-government supporters inside and outside the stadium where Iran and the United States faced off in a World Cup match charged with emotion. Some fans wearing T-shirts with “Women, Life, Freedom” written on them as a message for support for the ongoing demonstrations at home were allegedly beaten up at …