Human rights

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 …

Al-Monitor – Amid a host of pressing economic grievances, flaring tensions with the West and Israel and a nuclear deal on the edge of collapse, Iran’s longstanding drug problem has fallen by the wayside. Only now and then does the debate resurface to briefly grab headlines and disappear again, as was the case with comments in April by a senior parliamentarian who …

RFL/RE – The Iranian Teachers’ Unions Coordination Council has called for a new round of street protests to demand higher wages and the immediate release of detained teachers from previous demonstrations as unrest in Iran continues to spread.The council said in a statement on June 9 that teachers across Iran should hold a protest rally on June 17 after four teachers were …

CHRI – Repression of Civil Society Harms U.S. Security Interests *This report is embargoed until it is published on June 14, 8am EST June 9, 2022— President Biden’s silence so far on the killings and mass arrests of protesters in Iran by state security forces over the last month—the latest in a long line of lethal state responses to dissent in Iran—reflects …

CHRI — In a joint statement released today, human rights organizations ARTICLE 19, Access Now, and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) called on Meta to urgently revise its flawed content-moderation process for Persian-language content on the Instagram social media app. The current process has enabled Iranian state agents to manipulate Meta into removing content that is considered …

Iranwire – Every year on June 3, the anniversary of the 1989 death of Ruhollah Khomeini, the Iranian state and, by extension, its propaganda apparatus strain to portray the Ayatollah as a kind and just old man who lived a simple, ascetic life. The old myth that people saw the image of his face on the moon before he flew …

Iranwire – On Monday, June 6, some 12 members of Iran’s Baluchi ethnic minority were hanged at dawn in Zahedan Central Prison. The city is located in Iran’s farthest western reaches, a stone’s throw from the border with Pakistan in the country’s most deprived province, Sistan and Baluchistan. Initially, the news published about the hangings was typically sparse. Gradually, however, …

Iran-HRM – Eskandar Lotfi, a member of the Managing Board of the Marivan Teachers’ Association, detained by the Intelligence Agency in Sanandaj, western Iran, has been on a hunger strike since May 30. His hunger strike is in response to authorities renewing his detention order and being pressured to make false confessions. Security forces detained Eskandar Lotfi and Massoud Nikkhah, …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Sattar Arghandeh who was sentenced to qisas for murder, has been executed in Ilam Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man was executed in Ilam Central Prison on the morning of June 8. His identity has been established as Sattar Arghandeh from Malekshah who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. An informed source …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Nourahmad Baranzehi, a Baluch man sentenced to death for drug-related charges has been executed Isfahan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a Baluch man was executed in Isfahan Central Prison on May 7. His identity has been established as Nourahmad Baranzehi who was sentenced to death for drug-related offences. An informed …