Human rights

Following the stabbing of author Salman Rushdie last week international media has been reporting on his career, his character and the many restrictions he has had to endure because of the fatwa issued against him in 1989. Less has been focused around the reasons and those promoting these terrorist attacks. The 75-year old Rushdie was attacked while attending a literary …

RFL/RE – Human right activists say Khadijeh Mehdipour, a political prisoner being held in Ilam prison in western Iran, has been beaten again by inmates who are serving time for violent crimes. The Hengaw Human Rights Organization says Mehdipour, who is in prison without being segregated from dangerous prisoners, was beaten by violent criminals at the instigation of the prison authorities and …

RFL/RE – Iranian authorities have blocked cell phone users from receiving two-step verification codes on their devices in a move to further restrict access to social media and to filter access to information. Several social media users reported on August 17 that text messages containing login codes for the applications for Telegram, Twitter, and WhatsApp were filtered by cell phone operators in …

Iranwire – Four members of an Iranian women’s advocacy NGO have been summoned to Evin Prosecutor’s Office in Tehran to begin prison sentences. Nahid Shaghaghi, Akram Nasirian, Maryam Mohammadi and Esrin Derkale, active members of the grassroots Iranian Women’s Call Association, received the summons on Friday. Each was sentenced to four months and two years in prison after being convicted …

Iranwire – After the violent destruction and confiscation of Baha’i properties in villages of Roshankouh earlier this month, and previously in Ivel, both in the northern province of Mazandaran, it was reported that a court order has been issued for the confiscation of more Baha’i properties in The news was reported today, August 18, by Saeid Dehghan, an Iranian human rights lawyer. “In a …

IranHRM – Kurdish Iranian woman Soada Khadirzadeh attempted suicide after being summoned and threatened by intelligence agents.She hanged herself in the women’s ward of Urmia prison and gave pills to her two-month-old child. According to the Hengaw Organization website, she hanged herself with a scarf on August 18. The other prisoners reacted in time, untied the scarf, and transferred the …

Shabtabnews – In a speech to IRF (International Religious Freedom) and US State Department representatives , Hamid Gharagozloo the US representative of IOPHR addressed the Iranian Regimes’ fatwas calling for the assassinations of Salman Rushdie, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo. In his speech Mr Gharagozloo stated:” At the same time, as Khamenei’s regime and propaganda apparatus have praised the would-be …

An appeals court in Tehran has confirmed the prison sentences of three outspoken campaigners who wanted to sue government officials for allegedly mismanaging the coronavirus crisis and hampering the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines. One of the activists, Mostafa Nili, said the Court of Appeal of Tehran Province on August 16 confirmed the sentences they were appealing before the group, who are known …

Iranwire – A doctor in Iran’s Lorestan province has had his clinic sealed off and his medical license revoked for treating patients for free, IranWire has learned. Dr. Yaser Rahmanirad had also offered pregnant women referrals for prenatal screening from his clinic in Khorramabad. The Iranian government has recently moved to restrict patients’ checking for fetal abnormalities, as part of …

Iranwire – Iran’s Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Setad-PV) has published a 119-page document detailing the Islamic Republic’s hijab policy, and the rationale behind a recent government campaign to enforce the veiling of women more strictly and with a greater degree of violence. Entitled the “Hijab and Chastity Project”, the policy was apparently sent last winter to …