Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mehdi Piri, a Baluch man sentenced to death for drug-related offences, was executed in Zabol Prison. Two other prisoners were returned cells after obtaining extensions in their murder case from the victims’ families. According to the Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Zabol Prison on August 20. His identity has been reported as …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Five Baluch men were executed in Zahedan Central Prison yesterday. They included a juvenile offender named Omid Alizehi who was 17 years old at the time of the alleged murder during a street fight. At least 346 people have been executed in 2022 so far, 13 executions more than all recorded executions in 2021 and …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Moein Atashbar, a Baluch man sentenced to death for murder charges, was executed in Saravan Prison.  According to the Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Saravan Prison on August 20. His identity has been reported as Moein Atashbar who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. At the time of writing, his execution has not …

gatestoneinstitute.org – “If only more people could follow his example, instead of taking the path of appeasement in the name of cultural sensitivity, the long years of murder and mayhem wrought by the Islamists on the West might come to an end.” — Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Unherd, August 7, 2022. [A] terrible and different reality: the fatwa is gaining ground… Islamic …

Iran-HRM – With the re-emergence of COVID-19 in Iran, the number of prisoners suffering from this disease has also increased. Many political prisoners infected with COVID-19 are deprived of proper treatment. The poor and unsanitary conditions of prisons, the lack of health and medical facilities, and the overpopulation of prisons have all helped in spreading the infectious disease. In addition …

RFL/RE – Iranian security officials have stepped up their pressure on filmmakers who signed a recent statement against state repression to force them to rescind their signatures. In case of refusal, the filmmakers have been warned they could be blacklisted and banned from making films in the Islamic republic. A blacklist is due to be released next week, officials have …

RFL/RE – The lawyer for jailed journalist Keyvan Samimi says his client faces new charges on top of those filed against him for attending a protest rally in May 2019. Samimi, a member of the Religious Nationalists Council, was on temporary medical release when he was summoned to the Evin court on May 18 and subsequently sent to the Semnan prison.Lawyer Mustafa …

Iranwire- The following report is based on a series of testimonies collated by a citizen journalist in Iran from current inmates at Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj. Formerly known as Gohardasht, the facility was the site of the documented massacre of hundreds of political detainees in 1988, for which the ex-prison official Hamid Nouri was recently convicted in Sweden. Iran’s current president, …

Iranwire – The Baha’i International Community (BIC) today reported news of an effort to incriminate the Baha’is in Iran through a staged video production, filmed in a kindergarten, designed to produce proaganda footage that would show Baha’is teaching their religion in educational establishments. On 31 July, according to the latest BIC statement, and the same day that intelligence agents were invading …

Shabtabnews – In a twitter statement the U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Rashad Hussain of USCRIF called on Iran to immediately honour its international obligations to respect the freedom of religion or belief of all Iranians and end its escalating campaign of raids, arrests, and unjust imprisonment of Baha’i. Iran must honor its international obligations to respect the freedom of religion or belief …