Human rights

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 …

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 …