Human rights

Iranwire – Earlier this month a photographer named Hoda Rostami came under a week of intense and sustained criticism on social media. The reason was her role as executive director of Fam Trip, an Islamic Republic-backed tourism initiative that stands for “Familiarization Trip”. Foreign visitors have lavished praise on the program on their Instagram pages, while Rostami herself has posted …

gatestoneinstitute.org – One of the leaked documents, which contains “a shoot to kill order” for guards in the camp’s watchtowers, confirms that these camps are indeed prisons. Another leaked report stipulates how detainees are to be transported from one site to an alternate location: ankle shackles, handcuffs and hoods. Previous leaks of official documents, unauthorized films, commercial satellite images and …

RFL/RE – The mother of Anisha Asadollahi, a translator and imprisoned labor activist, has demanded the “immediate” release of her daughter and son-in-law, Keyvan Mohtadi, who she says are being detained without due process. In a video message dated June 27, Shafiqa Alemi chastises Iran’s government for arresting her daughter “for translating the statements of two French labor activists.”Anisha Asadollahi and her …

RFL/RE – Iranian oil workers have struck for a second day over wages and the government’s inability to tame price growth as official data showed the country’s inflation rate jumped to 52.5 percent in June.According to the Coordinating Council of Protests of Oil Contract Workers, employees at the Tehran Oil Refinery continued their protest against an increase in working hours and low …

Iranwire – Nima Safar Soflaei, a veteran leftist writer, poet and journalist based in Gorgan, Golestan province, has been fined 10 million tomans for “propaganda against the regime”. The verdict in the case against him at Gorgan Revolutionary Court was communicated to Safar Soflaei’s lawyer, Ramadan Haji Mashhadi. “In defense of the client,” Mashhadi wrote on Twitter, “we emphasized the right to …

Iranwire – The G7 group of countries has issued a wide-ranging communique on Iran at the end of a three-day summit in the Bavarian Alps in Germany. Amongst other things it touched on hostage-taking by the Islamic Republic and the Flight 752 disaster. The joint statement from leaders of the G7, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the United States, reiterated its commitment to …

Iranwire – Last week the heavy-handed arrest of at least 10 teenage skaters at a friendly gathering in Shiraz made headlines in Iran. The official pretext was that some of the girls walking around the park off Chamran Boulevard had been seen without hijab. But so grievous was this offence that the chief justice of Fars Province said the “perpetrators” – by …

CHRI – Countries negotiating with Iran over its nuclear program, including France, the U.K., and the U.S., as well as European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, should condemn the Iranian judiciary’s blatantly unlawful prison sentence against French tourist Benjamin Brière, said the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “Brière was detained by Iran’s security establishment to be added as …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Nasrollah Iliad, sentenced to qisas for murder, and an identified man sentenced to death for rape, were executed in Karaj Penitentiary. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, at least two men were executed in Karaj Penitentiary on June 27. One of the men’s identities has been established as 40-year-old Nasrollah Iliad who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Yousef Sanjari, a Baluch man sentenced to qisas(retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Jiroft Prison. According to Hal Vash, a Baluch man was executed in Jiroft Prison on the morning of June 26. His identity has been reported as Yousef Sanjari from Eslam Abad who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. At the time of writing, his …