Human rights

Iran-HRM – June 12 is World Day Against Child Labor. According to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, members of the United Nations General Assembly, including Iran must combat the economic abuse of children, but the number of child laborers in Iran has increased due to poverty as well as lack of action on the part …

RFL/RE – The lawyer for a teachers’ union activist, who has been on hunger strike for nine days after being jailed for meeting with French counterparts, says his client has been transferred to a prison in Tehran amid concerns about his deteriorating health. Saleh Nikbakht, who represents Eskandar Lotfi, told RFE/RL’s Radio Farda on June 10 that his client and other teachers …

RFL/RE – Dozens of students have issued a joint statement calling on authorities to end “authoritarian” restrictions at Iranian universities, including tighter rules around the wearing of hijabs by female students. In the statement, issued on June 10, the students criticized “the violent actions of university security officials” and called on other students and university professors “to protest against the authoritarian attack …

Iranwire – Two workers in the Iranian city of Mahshahr, in Khuzestan province, set themselves on fire this week in protest at their dismissal from their jobs. A report published today, 10 June, by the Free Trade Union of Iran, said that the workers had been employed by Farad Petrochemical for the past three years. Three previous attempted worker suicides …

Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities paraded seven men in the streets of Tehran as a way to publicly degrade and humiliate them today. They were accused of confronting and attacking the state security forces. In a humiliating manner, the police officers paraded the men in the village of Morteza Gerd where they live. The state-run Tabnak website reported today that seven …

Amnesty.org – The international community must use all diplomatic means available to stop the Iranian authorities from amputating the fingers of eight men, at least three of whom were convicted based on torture-tainted “confessions” following grossly unfair trials, said Amnesty International today. According to information obtained by the organization, the authorities have informed the men that they will be transferred …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Three Baluch prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions in Zabol Prison today. Iran Human Rights has recorded 24 executions in the last week, an average of one execution every eight hours. Of those, 14 were Baluch minorities. Condemning the current unprecedented wave of executions, Iran Human Rights calls on the …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Khosro Tarek and Kamal Bayanirad were executed for murder charges in Ilam Central Prison. The execution of another prisoner was reported at the same prison on the same day. According to Iran Human Rights, two men were executed in Ilam Central Prison on the morning of 8 June. Their identities have been established as 45-year-old …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ghlich Shokouhi and Vahid Behmaram were executed for drug offences in Urmia Central Prison. The fate of Mohammadreza Ghorbanzadeh who was transferred to the gallows with them, is unknown. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, at least two men were executed in Urmia Central Prison on the morning of 10 June. Their identities …

Al-Monitor – Eight imprisoned men in Iran are set to have their fingers amputated for alleged theft after rights groups said at least three of the men were convicted in grossly unfair trials. Iranian authorities have informed the prisoners that they will face a guillotine machine in the coming days, Amnesty International said Friday.  According to the rights organization, the eight men were …