Human rights

gatestoneinstitute.org – [T]he Biden administration, even during the Iranian regime’s current brutal crackdown on its own citizens, and the US Special Envoy for Iran, Robert Malley, are still seeking to revive the lethal “nuclear deal” — allowing the regime to enrich uranium to acquire an arsenal of nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them — and reassuring the mullahs …

Iran-HRM – Some 60 percent of arrestees in Qom are between 15 and 22 The Commander of the State Security Force of Qom Province acknowledged at a news conference that the age of 60 percent of those detained during protests in Qom is between 15 and 22 years old. These statistics only relate to the city of Qom. More than …

oversightboard – User appeal to restore content to Facebook. In July 2022, a Facebook user posted content in a public group that describes itself as supporting freedom for Iran. The post contains an image depicting a caricature of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. In the image, Ayatollah Khamenei’s beard forms a fist, which grasps a woman wearing the hijab. …

CHRI – At least three lawyers were among dozens of individuals who were arrested today outside the Iranian Bar Association in Tehran amid anti-state protests that continued in the capital and several cities throughout the nation, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has been informed. “Lawyers willing to defend detainees arrested for peaceful protest are the last lifeline …

CHRI – A union representing oil workers in Iran has published a statement condemning Iranian authorities for arbitrarily arresting their colleagues who have joined the nationwide, anti-state protests that have been ongoing throughout the country since September 16, 2022. Protests by large numbers of oil and petrochemical project workers began in the towns of Asalouyeh, Bushehr Province, as well as in Abadan, …

Al-Arabia – Iran has sent high school students arrested during anti-government protests to “psychological centers” to prevent them from becoming “antisocial characters,” the country’s education minister said on Tuesday. Yousef Nouri told Iran’s Sharq daily that detained students are kept in “psychological centres” rather than in prison and that they will be allowed back in school once they have been …

RFL/RE – Shervin Hajipour, whose song Baraye has become an anthem for the ongoing protests in Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody, has been accused of “propaganda against the system” and “inciting people to violent acts.” Majid Kaveh, Hajipour’s lawyer, said on Twitter on October 9 that that his client was temporarily detained before being released on …

Iranwire – Hossein Raisi, a human rights lawyer and lecturer at the University of Carleton in Canada, has told IranWire that according to documents and information he has received, Iran’s armed security forces and intelligence agencies have received orders to suppress and arrest protesting students. Mass anti-government protests have continued across Iran since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police …

VOA – U.N. agencies say restrictions in accessing information in Iran make it difficult to verify the number of people killed and injured in the anti-government protests that began last month. Iranian state media report 41 protesters and security forces have died; however, Iran Human Rights, a Norway-based nonprofit organization, says at least 154 people have been killed by security …

Iran-HRM – A Kurdish protester from Saqqez, Ismail Dezwar, was arrested and severely tortured by the intelligence services in Iran. IRGC intelligence forces in plainclothes had taken Ismail Dezwar’s body to Shafa Hospital in Saqqez inside an ambulance at 11 p.m. Sunday, October 9, 2022. One hospital staff mentioned that Ismail Dezwar died because of severe torture. Bruises on his …