Human rights

Iran-HRM – In a letter from Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj, a jailed civil activist who has been deprived of medical leave for months, wrote about his observations about the ‘weekly executions’ plan and the hanging of up to ten people every Wednesday morning in this prison. In his letter published on Thursday, March 24, Saeed Eghbali described the “sound …

Shabtabnews – In a twitter statment Hamid Gharagozloo Iran Working Group Chair, @HGharagozloo1, shared his insight on Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee’s arrest. Iran Working Group Chair, @HGharagozloo1, insight on Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee's arrest:@IrfRoundtable @USCIRF pic.twitter.com/PVJBHIw1ws— IRF Secretariat (@IrfSecretariat) March 24, 2022

Iranwire – In a news conference on March 15, Gholamali Mohammadi, head of Iran’s Prisons Organizations, claimed that Iranian prisons “are fit to be presented to the world”. The Iranian prison system, he said, qualifies because of “its treatment of prisoners, its respect for prisoners’ rights and dignity, prison conditions, cultural and educational programs, job training for inmates, sanitary conditions in the …

Iranwire – Earlier this week, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian met his counterpart in Syria, as well as President Bashar al-Assad. Officials in the two countries were united in their stated support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It came in the full knowledge that Syrian civilians have died in their thousands in the past 5.5 years as a direct consequence of …

HRW – On March 23, 2022, the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported that Iranian authorities arrested at least 20 people after organizing a Nowruz celebration in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, on March 21. A day later, the Ministry of Intelligence office in Sanandaj summoned at least 10 more Kurdish activists and others for participating in the ceremony and detained at least one other person.  …

Iranhr.net- Joint letter calling on HRC to renew the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on Iran Your Excellency, We, the undersigned Iranian and international human rights organisations, call on your country to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran at the 49th session of the Human …

Iranwire – More than 1,000 Baha’is in Iran are in a “limbo” between their initial arrests, their legal hearings and their final summons to prison, according to a new statement by the Baha’i International Community (BIC), a situation that is “causing devastation to innocent people’s lives”. The statement was delivered by the BIC’s representative, Simin Fahandej, by video to the …

CHRI – Longtime human rights defender and former prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi is peacefully refusing to report to prison in Tehran to serve an eight-year sentence that was issued against her after a five-minute trial. She announced the news using the Farsi-language hashtag “نافرمانی_مدنی#”, which means civil disobedience. “I do not accept the verdicts against me, and now I am on the …

Iranwire – The journalist Kianoosh Sanjari (Mehdi Sanjaribaf) left Iran on Monday, March 21: the first day of the Iranian new year. Formerly based in the US, he had returned to Iran in autumn 2016 out of homesickness and love for his country, only to be rearrested, tortured and jailed for being a “spy” in a sham trial lasting barely …

inews.co.uk – The BBC has filed a complaint to the United Nations about the harassment of women journalists as Rana Rahimpour reveals the abuse she faces while trying to do her job By Rana RahimpourMarch 23, 2022 7:03 am(Updated 10:59 am) “One day, we will arrest you, we will rape your daughter in front of you, and then we will cut …