Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Vahid Mousavi, sentenced to qisas for murder, was executed in Rajai Shahr Prison yesterday and four others were returned to their cells after last minute extensions in their cases. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, five men were taken to the gallows on the morning of March 3 in Rajai Shahr Prison. Of the five, …

RFL/RE – Maryam Behtarpur lived a quiet life with her husband and three children in northwestern Iran, when her world was turned upside down in November 2019. That was when her eldest son, 27-year-old Farzad Ansarifar, was killed while returning from work just as the state was cracking down on protests against the country’s repressive clerical establishment.The family spoke up …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Houshmand Alipour has been deprived of his right to leave and visits because of the media coverages of his hunger strike in Sanandaj Prison. Under pressure of the Intelligence Department of Kurdistan, Khosravi Zadeh, the judge in charge of Sanandaj Prison, and the head of the prison, informed Houshmand Alipour that since the issue of his …

Iran-HRM- Despite the deteriorating condition of prisoner of conscience Mostafa Abdi his father says he was prevented from being transferred from prison to a hospital after contracting Covid-19. Mostafa Abdi is a member of Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish religious minority and editor of a news outlet focused on the Gonabadi dervish community. Hassan Abdi, father to the jailed dervish activist tweeted …

Iranwire – The Center for Human Rights in Iran and Netherlands-based NGO Lawyers for Lawyers have issued a joint call for the immediate release of Iranian human rights attorney Mohammad Najafi. In early January 2018, Najafi was practising law in Arak, Markazi province when a 23-year-old man, Vahid Heydari, died in custody after being arrested for taking part in a street …

Iranwire- Baha’is are the largest non-Muslim religious minority in Iran – yet they are not recognized by the Islamic Republic’s constitution. In the past four decades, they have been deprived of almost all their human and citizenship rights, from the right to an education to the right to own property and to employment. The situation of the Baha’is in Iran is …

Iran-HRM – A 17-year-old child bride self-immolated and passed away in Sistan and Baluchestan, southeast Iran. On Wednesday, the teenager who was a victim of domestic violence set himself on fire in the city of Bampur. The campaign of Baluch activists identified the 17-year-old as “F-‌ Marandgani” and wrote: “This Baluch girl has set herself on fire due to violence …

Iran-HRM – The Iranian regime’s judiciary has a documented history of banishing into prison exile those held for politically motivated reasons. By sending prisoners to exile, judicial authorities seek to isolate prisoners, and escalated pressure on them as a form of additional punishment. The practice of sending prisoners into prison exile is also unlawful and could be challenged in the …

CHRI – The continued denial of proper medical treatment to ailing political and civil rights activists in Iran is setting the stage for deliberate crimes against the many political prisoners in the country, including Sepideh Qoliyan, Soheila Hejab, Zeinab Jalalian, Arsham (Mahmoud) Rezaee, and Abbas Vahedian Shahroudi. “These activists represent the voices of many Iranians, which the Iranian government is trying to silence,” said Hadi Ghaemi, executive …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – An unnamed man who was sentenced to qisas(retribution-in-kind) for the murder of a policeman, was executed in Dezful Prison. According to the Judiciary’s newsagency, Mizan, a man was executed in Dezful Prison on the morning of March 3. The unnamed man was sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for the murder of a policeman in the course of a robbery. …