Human rights

Iran-HRM – A security guard halted a concert by the Kamakan group in the middle of their performance in Tehran. In a video published on social media, a security guard is shown suddenly coming on stage while the group members were performing telling the band’s vocalist “Stop singing. We were told to halt it!”   In response to the group’s …

Iranwire – Sardar Pashaei, a former world wrestling champion and coach of Iran’s national wrestling teams, protested yesterday against the removal of Mahsa Ghorbani, Iran’s first female international football referee, from participating in the 2022 World Cup by publishing a photo of her on Twitter. Mr. Pashaei wrote in his tweet: “Mahsa Ghorbani, Iran’s first female international football referee, was …

Iranwire – On July 23, women’s rights activists raised the alarm that the actress Nazanin Bahrami had been arrested. It came shortly after she had signed an 800-strong statement denouncing sexual abuse and violence in the film industry. Reports have since circulated that Bahrami has been able to call her family, and that she was arrested by one of the …

amnesty.org – This document contains the details of 321 men, women and children documented by Amnesty International as having been killed by Iran’s security forces during their crackdown on mass protests that erupted across Iran between 15 and 19 November 2019, following the government’s announcement about the significant overnight rise in the price of fuel. Choose a language to view …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Senobar Jalali, an Afghan woman sentenced to qisas for murder is the third woman to have been executed in Iran on July 27. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, an Afghan woman was executed in a Tehran/Alborz Prison on July 27. Her identity has been established as Senobar Jalali who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for the …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mohammadreza Arjmandi, a Baluch man sentenced to qisas for murder, was executed in Bam Prison. According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Bam Prison on July 27. His identity has been reported as Mohammadreza Arjmandi (Sheikihi) who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. At the time of writing, his execution has not been reported by …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Abdollah Rahimi has been confirmed to have been executed with Soheila Abedi, Payam Yazdani and Heyva Ahmadi in Sanandaj Central Prison on July 27. According to newly confirmed information, a third man was executed in Sanandaj Central Prison on July 27. His identity has been established as Abdollah Rahimi who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. …

RFL/RE – Jailed Iranian activist Farhad Meysami faces new charges over his criticism and hunger strike to protest against the threatened execution of Swedish-Iranian doctor Ahmedreza Djalali. Mohammad Moghimi, Meysami’s lawyer, told Radio Farda that his client refused to participate in a meeting over the case because he had not been given proper notification. Meysami, a medical doctor, has been …

Iranwire – Security forces have descended on the family home of a young man killed in Iran’s November 2019 protests, beating his relatives and taking his younger brother into custody. The raid on Wednesday is understood to have been aimed at Farzaneh Ansarifar, the sister of Farzad Ansarifar, who was shot in the back of the head with a Kalashnikov in Behbahan, …

Iranwire – Detained LGBT+ rights advocate Zahra Sedighi-Hamedani, known online as Sareh, has been ordered to pay a fine of 5.3 million tomans for “illegally leaving the country”. The young blogger was arrested by the Revolutionary Guards on the Turkish border last year. She had previously lived and worked in Iraqi Kurdistan, and was jailed there for 20 days after …