Human rights

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Khadijeh Mehdipour has been denied medical treatment despite severe digestive problems. She suffers from severe nausea when eating food and drinking water and has lost 8 kg in the last two months. According to an informed source, the prosecutor forbids her transfer to Tehran to treat her digestive disease and the black spot in her eye …

Iranwire – The Iranian judiciary has jailed another convert to Christianity on spurious charges. Fariba Dalir, 51, was sent to Evin Prison on Saturday, April 16 to begin serving a two-year sentence for “acting against national security by establishing and leading an Evangelical Christian church”. A report by Article 18, a London-based campaign for religious freedom in Iran, states that Dalir was …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – There has been an intensification of the crackdown on civil society in Iran over the last week. Six civil and workers’ rights activists, Amir Amirgholi, Amir Abbasi, Mohammad Irannejad, Sara Asgari, Nasrollah Amirlou and Morteza Seyedi were arrested. Rasoul Bodaghi, a civil activist and member of the Teachers’ Union was sentenced to five years imprisonment, …

Iran-HRM – Rasoul Bodaghi, a member of the Board of Directors of the Iranian Teachers Trade Association (ITTA), has been sentenced to five years in prison and banned from residing in Tehran and neighboring provinces for two years. Mr. Badaghi’s lawyer, Ramin Safarnia, tweeted on Saturday, April 16, that the activist was sentenced to four years in prison on charges …

Iran-HRM – A Kurdish political prisoner has said that she has been threatened to make confessions. Golaleh Moradi sent an audio file in Kurdish from Urmia Central Prison about the torture and pressures on her to confess against herself. Golaleh Moradi, the mother of two, said in her audio file: “This is Golaleh Moradi from the Urmia Prison. I have …

Shabtabnews – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF ) today welcomed Iran’s temporary furlough of religious prisoner of conscience Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani and called on the government to permanently release him. Iranian security officials arrested Nadarkhani in July 2018 on charges of “acting against national security” and “promoting Zionist Christianity.” “Pastor Nadarkhani’s furlough is a welcome development …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Mehdi Salehi, a protester who died under suspicious circumstances in custody, was buried under strict security measures in the early hours of this morning. Officials refused to return his body to his family who have been threatened that “every single family member would be imprisoned like Mehdi” if they speak to the media. News of …

RFL/RE – Kurdish traders known as Kulbars make the hazardous journey from Iranian to Iraqi Kurdistan, earning just enough money to survive. Some have fallen to their deaths. More have been killed by Iranian border guards, with 52 killed in 2021, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights. https://www.rferl.org/a/kurdish-traders-brave-a-killing-field-on-iran-iraq-border/31793512.html

Iranwire – Recently a student named Maryam Karimbeigi was expelled from university, amid reports the Intelligence Ministry had opened a case against her. Her brother, Mostafa Karimbeigi, was killed by security forces during the 2009 pro-democracy protests in Iran. Maryam was informed of her expulsion from Islamic Azad University’s science branch on Sunday, April 10. Earlier, on February 21, intelligence agents had again raided …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Mehdi Salehi Ghaleh Shahrokhi who was sentenced to death for taking part in peaceful protests, died in a hospital today. He suffered a stroke in January after being injected wrong medicine in Dastgerd prison of Isfahan where he was detained since arrested. Authorities delayed his transfer to the hospital, putting him at grave risk of death. He was …