Human rights

Iran-HRM – The Iranian regime has stepped up executions to intimidate the society infuriated over the skyrocketing prices of food staples. At least 18 prisoners, including a woman, have been executed in recent days in Iran. One of those executed was a minor at the time of the arrest. Nine of those executed were convicted of drug-related charges and nine …

CHRI – Iranian authorities should revoke the death sentence against Iranian-born Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali, said the UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner in a statement published today. Read the complete statement by spokesperson Liz Throssell below. Click here to learn more about Djalali’s case. We are deeply alarmed by the imminent execution in the Islamic Republic of Iran of Swedish-Iranian doctor …

CHRI – At least five protesters are dead amid a violent state crackdown on street demonstrations in Iran, while the authorities have blocked internet access in protest hot zones, pressured domestic media not to cover the protests, and arrested growing numbers of protesters and activists. Yet the protesters are refusing to back down; street demonstrations, currently in their second week, were reported …

Iranwire – At 2.50pm on Friday, May 13, an Iranian would-be internet user in Khuzestan opens up Google on their phone and types one innocuous word into the search bar: “Washington”. The search engine thinks about it a little while. Then they’re presented with the weak visual joke now familiar to Chrome users the world over, a dog-eared piece of …

Iranwire – At least five people have been named as killed by security forces since fresh protests broke out in Iran over government-imposed food price increases this month. Pictures of other, wounded people, including young children, have been posted online. On the evening of Sunday, May 15, many cities in the provinces of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari and Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad were the scene …

VOA – Authorities in Iran have arrested a university professor on security charges and “suspicious foreign links,” Iranian media reported on Monday. The semiofficial Mehr news agency identified the professor as Saeed Madani but did not provide details or say when and where he was taken into custody. The report said the academic had met with allegedly suspicious foreign citizens …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mohammad Bameri, a Baluch man sentenced to qisas(retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Iranshahr Prison after he was unable to pay the €33k diya (blood money). According to the Baluch Activists Campaign, a Baluch man was executed in Iranshahr Prison on the morning of May 14. His identity was reported as Mohammad Bameri from Bakhsh Daman in Iranshahr …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – A man only named as Mostafa Kh was executed for murder in Mashhad Central Prison, official sources have reported. According to Rokna, a man was executed in Mashhad Central Prison on the morning of May 11. Sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, he has only been named as 33-year-old Mostafa Kh. The executed man is alleged to …

Al-Monitor – Protests have erupted across numerous cities in Iran after the government enacted a series of subsidy cuts, leading to a harsh government crackdown that resulted in a reported four deaths.  Iranians on social media have complained since May about the high prices of cooking oil, bread and dairy products. The price of some foods has increased by over …

RFL/RE – Kazem Darabi, an Iranian sentenced to life in prison over the 1992 murder of four Iranian dissidents, has called on President Ebrahim Raisi to pressure the Swedish government for the release of former Iranian official Hamid Nouri, who is on trial in Stockholm over the 1988 mass execution of political prisoners. In an interview with the hard-line Fars …