Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ayat Ghasemi-Delfani who was sentenced to death for drug offences and murder, has been executed for the drug-related charges in Karaj Penitentiary.  According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Karaj Penitentiary on May 18. His identity has been established as Ayat Ghasemi-Delfani who was sentenced to death for drug-related …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Ahmad Gashoul has been executed for murder charges in Isfahan Central Prison.  According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Isfahan Central Prison on May 19. His identity has been established as 21-year-old Ahmad Gashoul who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder.  An informed source told Iran Human Rights: “Ahmad Gashoul …

Shabtabnews – In a statement International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR) called for the immediate release of Zaynab Jalalian, an Iranian women’s rights activist, from her arbitrary detention, which is a gross violation of her basic human rights. Zaynab Jalalian who is serving life imprisonment for her alleged membership of the Kurdish political party, and was also sentenced to death …

VOA —The wife of Iranian-Swedish citizen Ahmadreza Djalali accused of espionage and threatened with execution in Iran, on Saturday called on the European Union to secure her husband’s release. “I hope that the the EU can really act decisively in order to bring Ahmadreza home,” Vida Mehrannia said according to excerpts of an interview on Germany’s ZDF channel. The EU …

Iran-HRM – The lawyer of former political prisoner Keyvan Samimi said that his client was arrested after going to forensic medicine and sent to Semnan prison. On May 18, Keyvan Samimi’s lawyer Mostafa Nili tweeted, “Today, after business hours, the Implementation Bureau of the Moqadas Court called Mr. Keyvan Samimi and told him he must come to the Bureau to …

gatestoneinstitute.org – “[T]here are extensive, vague and arbitrary grounds in Iran for imposing the death sentence, which quickly can turn this punishment into a political tool…. In addition, the structural flaws of the justice system are so deep and at odds with the notion of rule of law that one can barely speak of a justice system. The entrenched flaws …

Iranwire – Ahmah Alam al-Hoda, the notoriously misogynist Friday Imam of Mashhad, has used yet another Friday sermon to rail against women having visible hair on their heads. The father-in-law of President Ebrahim Raisi entreated the faithful to intervene if they saw an unveiled woman in public. Alam al-Hoda declared: “From the beginning of the revolution until now, people have …

Iranwire – On May 11, the final day of a visit by EU envoy Enrique Mora, Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced that two more Europeans had been arrested, accusing them of fomenting and taking part in this year’s teachers’ strikes. Later, it emerged that the detainees were two French nationals, Cecile Kohler, 37, and her husband Jacques Paris, 69. They had arrived in Iran …

VOA – On February 14, the Marand High Court in Iran’s northern province of East Azerbaijan ruled that a newborn boy could not be named “Türkay” — a word meaning “Turkish moon” in Azeri Turkish. His parents, disturbed but not surprised by the decision, decided to fight back. Following more than two months of legal battles, the East Azerbaijan Appellate …

(HRW) – Iranian authorities have arrested several prominent activists on baseless accusations amid labor union strikes and ongoing protests against rising prices, since May 6, 2022, in dozens of small towns, Human Rights Watch said today. Those arrested include a prominent sociologist and four labor rights defenders. News outlets close to the intelligence apparatus have accused the detained activists of having contact with suspicious …