VOA – Protests over soaring food prices continued in several cities in Iran on Saturday, according to postings on social media, while an Iranian lawmaker told a local media outlet that one person was killed in a demonstration in the southwest. The protests were triggered last week by a cut in state subsidies for imported wheat that caused price increases …
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Four Men Executed for Drug Offences in Shiraz
Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Four men including an uncle and nephew, were executed on drug-related charges in Shiraz Central Prison last week. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, four men were executed in Shiraz Central Prison (Adelabad) on the morning of May 8. Their identities have been established as Abbas Pajmordeh and his nephew Ali Pajmordeh who …
Read More »USCRIF RELIGIOUS OVERVIEW OF REFUGEES FLEEING PERSECUTION GLOBALLY
Shabtabnews – USCRIF recently issued its annual overview of religious persecution. The report stated that “the scale of the global refugee crisis is unprecedented. As of the end of 2021, over 82 million people were displaced worldwide. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that close to 27 million of those displaced are considered refugees. Two-thirds of these …
Read More »‘A Dirty Game’: Iran Accused Of Holding Swedish Citizens ‘Hostage’ Over War-Crimes Trial
RFL/RE – As a court verdict looms in Sweden in a case that has implicated high-ranking members of Iran’s clerical regime in war crimes, Tehran appears to be targeting Swedish citizens in Iran as payback.Iran has expressed outrage over the ongoing trial of Hamid Nouri, an alleged former deputy prosecutor and member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) who …
Read More »France Demands Iran Release Two French Citizens Detained In Tehran
RFL/RE – France’s Foreign Ministry has condemned the “baseless arrests” of two French citizens and called for their immediate release after being detained in Iran. The ministry said in a statement on May 12 that French authorities are “fully mobilized” to address the situation after Iran’s Intelligence Ministry announced a day earlier that two “Europeans” had been arrested on accusations of seeking …
Read More »Iranian Feminists and Anti-Harassment Groups Targeted in Mass Cyber Attack
Iranwire – Feminist and women’s rights campaigns with a focus on Iran have been the subject of a mass cyber-attack this week, with many forced to temporarily switch their Instagram pages to private mode. The hosts of the Iranian Me Too, Harass Watch and Cheragh Academy, all three of which work to combar sexual violence and harassment in Iran through education and public callouts, reported …
Read More »Iranian Refugees in Germany ‘Kicked Out of Accommodation’ to Make Way for Ukrainians
Iranwire – Last year, according to figures published by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the number of people recorded as being displaced from their homes around the world was the highest in a decade: 84 million. Of these, 26.6m had fled their home country while the rest were displaced within its borders. This, of course, was before the Russian …
Read More »Dozens of teachers arrested during the nationwide gathering of teachers in Iran
Iran-HRM – Dozens of teachers were arrested during the nationwide gathering of teachers in Iran and there was a heavy presence of security forces in Tehran and several other cities. According to the Coordinating Council of the Iranian Cultural Teachers Associations, since the early hours of Thursday, May 12, security forces and plainclothes agents were stationed in Baharestan Street, near …
Read More »Iran Protesters at Risk of Lethal State Violence
CHRI – Ongoing street protests in Iran could lead to more killings and arbitrary imprisonments by state security forces if the international community remains silent, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) warned in a statement today. “The Iranian government has a documented pattern of using lethal force to crush protests while cutting off internet access to prevent the …
Read More »Activists Urge UN Rep to Meet Them During Trip to Iran
CHRI — A group of prominent civil rights activists in Iran has called on UN representative Alena Douhan, who will be visiting Iran shortly to assess the negative impact of sanctions on the country, to meet with them during her state-sanctioned trip this week. In the published open letter, the activists decried the refusal of the Islamic Republic to allow the special rapporteur on …
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