Human rights

Iran-HRM – Nearly 800 days after Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian was banished to Yazd prison she has been deprived of the right to visit her family and lawyer. She has also been denied medical care. According to a source from Iran, “about 20 days ago, Ms. Jalalian’s elderly parents went from a long distance from Mako – Dim Qashlaq …

Shabtabnews – In a letter IOPHR urged the Members of the Belgian Parliament to reconsider and prevent a judicial cooperation between the Kingdom of Belgium and the Islamic Republic of Iran . The letter outlined many of the dangerous consequences of the approval of such cooperation for the future of Belgium and Europe. IOPHR also in its letter stated that …

Iran-HRM – A number of Sunni religious prisoners in the Rajai Shahr prison of Karaj went on a hunger strike in protest of the Tehran prosecutor’s “insult” during his visit to this prison. Three Sunni prisoners identified as Yasin Abbas Jobi, Nooraziz Darabi, and Sadeq Ayyubi started a 3-day hunger on Thursday, June 3. On Friday evening, all the Sunni …

iran-hrm – June 2022, was marked by a staggering number of executions and human rights violations in Iran in step with the growing discontent and the spread of popular protests. The Iranian regime also ramped up clampdown to stifle the society which has already been angry over economic hardships. Last month the Iranian regime launched a violent crackdown against civil …

iran-hrm – The death penalty violates Articles 3 and 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which emphasizes the right to life of every human being. It also violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Many countries have now abolished the death penalty, and many more have taken steps to do so, but the clerical regime in …

rferl.org – Nasrin Javadi, a trade union activist in Iran, has begun serving a seven-year prison sentence that she and activists have slammed as retribution for her labor agitation. The Free Union of Iranian Workers said in a statement on June 30, that Javadi was ordered to report to prison on July 2, following “numerous summonses and pressure from the …

Shabtabnews – IOPHR in a letter addressed to Professor Javaid Rehman – the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran stated that ” in the absence of serious and practical action at the international level to address this blatant and undeniable violation of human rights in Iran, the growing trend of executions …

Shabtabnews – Iran has gone to great lengths to arrest and detain religious minorities, including Christians, Baha’is, Sunni Muslims, Sufis, and spiritualists. The Iranian government has taken it a step further and also targeted those who peacefully dissent from the government’s preferred religious views, particularly women, nontheists, and members of the LGBTI community. Amid country-wide protests in Iran over the …

Iranwire – The Iranian-born wrestler Melika Balali won gold at the women’s British Senior Wrestling Championship last weekend. On the podium in Manchester, the 22-year-old, a member of the Scottish national freestyle wrestling team, held up a poster that read: “STOP forced hijab. I have the right to be a wrestler.” Balali is more than a top sports practitioner with …

Iranwire – Well-known Persian Twitter personality Hossein Shanbehzadeh has been summoned to Evin Prison to begin serving a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence. The 34-year-old tweeted on Thursday after announcing the summons: A literary editor and activist, Shanbehzadeh was known for his lyrical and tongue-in-cheek posts about Iranian society and culture. He had been on a six-month hiatus from the platform since …