Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mehdi Faraji who was sentenced to qisas for murder, has been executed in Isfahan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man executed in Isfahan Central Prison on 31 May 2022. His identity has been established as Mehdi Faraji who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. An informed source told Iran Human Rights: “Mehdi …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Akbar Hassanlou who was sentenced to qisas for murder, has been executed in Zanjan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, a man executed in Zanjan Central Prison on 29 May 2022. His identity has been established as 40-year-old Akbar Hassanlou from Hashtroud who was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder. An informed source told Iran …

CHRI —In an open letter to the delegates at the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 110th Session of the International Labour Conference, currently being held in Geneva, Switzerland, the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, Iran’s national teachers’ organization, has requested that the Islamic Republic’s representatives be removed from the governing board of the ILO. The open letter, which has garnered close to 2000 signatures …

Iran-HRM – A court in Iran has sentenced Azerbaijani Turkic minority rights activist Hojjat Esmatzadeh to 50 lashes and two years and six months in prison. According to the verdict, issued in absentia by Branch 101 of the Criminal Court of Naghadeh, Hojjat Esmatzadeh was sentenced to 50 lashes and one year in prison for disturbing public order and 18 …

Iran-HRM – Former political prisoner Arash Sadeghi said that Iranian authorities amputated the fingers of a prisoner for theft in Tehran’s Evin Prison. In a tweet on June 2, Arash Sadeghi wrote: “Since one month ago, a device called a guillotine (for amputation) has been brought to a room in Evin Prison infirmary. On May 31, the four fingers of …

Shabtabnews – US state department in its annual Report on International Religious Freedom in Iran, once again highlighted Iranian Regime’s oppression of religious minorities especially towards the Bahai’s, Sufis and other religious minorities group. The report also highlighted The U.S. government continued call publicly and in multilateral forums for the Iranian government to respect religious freedom and continued to condemn …

RFL/RE – Scores of Iranian filmmakers and artists who penned an open letter in support of anti-government protesters have been threatened by authorities, with some rescinding their signatures. The May 29 open letter came as residents of Iran’s southwestern city of Abadan staged rallies over the collapse of a 10-story building that killed at least 39 people.Authorities blamed the May …

RFL/RE – Tehran has threatened to punish Iranians who worked on the film Holy Spider, a movie inspired by the true story of an Iranian construction worker who killed 16 sex workers as part of an “Islamic cleansing of society.” Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Mehdi Ismaili said on June 2 that the film, directed by Danish-Iranian …

RFL/RE – The Writers’ Association of Iran and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) have expressed concern over the arrest of poet and journalist Arash Ghaleh-Golab during a protest over the recent collapse of a building in the Iranian port city of Abadan that left at least 39 people dead. According to a statement from the Writers’ Association, Ghaleh-Golab was …

RFL/RE – A prominent Iranian human rights advocate, Narges Mohammadi, and photojournalist Alieh Motalebzadeh have received death threats while in prison amid a worsening situation for political prisoners on the whole, a lawyer for one of the two women said. Mostafa Nili, Mohammadi’s lawyer, told Emtedad in an interview on May 31 that a prisoner convicted of murder in Qarchak …