Human rights

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Khadijeh Medipour was beaten by several violent criminals and injured in the eye on Thursday. Iran’s Prisons Organization confirmed the news on Friday, February 11, saying that the reason for the “conflict” was “obscenity and insult” to Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the regime, Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, and Qassem Soleimani, the leader of Iran’s …

Iranwire – Ayatollah Khamenei has lashed out at independent media, identifying it and journalists as clear targets in his “combined offensive” against threats to Iran’s economy, society and security. “The clear policy of the media opposed to Islam and Iran is to distort the facts and use lies to distort the positive points of the revolution,” he told a group of …

HRW – Headlines about the beheading of 17-year-old Ghazaleh (Mona) Heydari shook Iranian society on Saturday. The police have arrested the victim’s husband and brother-in-law and stated that the motive was a “family dispute.” Heydari, who lived in Khuzestan province, was reportedly married off to her cousin at the age of 12 and had a three-year-old child. A source close to the victim reported that Heydari had attempted …

Iranwire -Friday, February 11, is the 43rd anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran. The Iranian government has staged tens of abductions, forced disappearances and assassinations of its opponents in other countries around the world. On July 22, 1980, Dawud Salahuddin, an American convert to Islam, assassinated Ali Akbar Tabatabaei, a former Iranian diplomat under the rule of Shah …

Iranwire – Seventeen people have been arrested on attempted kidnapping charges and collusion with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence after Turkish authorities foiled a plot to abduct an Iranian man based in Turkey and return him to the Islamic Republic. Turkish media site Odatv reported that the Turkish Intelligence Service (MIT) arrested Morteza Soltan Sanjali, an employee for the Bai Sagholam Defense Industries Company …

Iran-HRM – Mohammad Habibi, a spokesman for the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA), said that Ministry of Education has issued some directives aimed at “terrorizing” teachers and preventing them from attending protest rallies. On his Twitter account Habibi published the pictures of two directives recently issued by the Ministry of Education. بخشنامه هایی برای ایجاد رعب و وحشت در میان …

CHRI – Mona “Ghazal” Heydari was 17 years old when her husband, Sajjad Heydari, decapitated her and paraded her head on a street in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province—at times smiling at a camera. “Now do you have anything more to say?” he said while carrying the girl’s severed head in his hand by her hair in a …

Iranwire – Article 18, the human rights organization that advocates for freedom of religion or belief, with a special focus on Christian converts in Iran, published a report on February 1, 2022, on the summons of Ahmad (John) Sarparast, Morteza Hajeb Mashhudkari and Ayub (Farzin) Pourrezazadeh on charges of “activities, propaganda, and deviant educational initiatives contrary to holy Sharia [law], …

Iranwire – IranWire sources in Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan province, report that at least five Kurdish labor and civil activists have been summoned to the Sanandaj Intelligence Office. Hajar Saeedi, Fardin Mirki, Eghbal Shabani, Issa Moradi and Ramin Karimi were summoned on the morning of February 9. The reasons for summons are not yet known. Hajar Saeedi, Fardin Mirki …

CHRI – Universities Not Escaping Intensifying Repression in Islamic Republic In yet another reflection of intensifying repression in the Islamic Republic, a large group of prominent scholars and academics from around the globe have written a letter in protest against the firing of several professors from universities in Iran “for political reasons.” The letter by the academics rejected any legitimate …