Human rights

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Moghaddam Alizadeh, Hamdollah Ghanbari, Feiz Allahmoradi and Hossein Abbaszadeh, who were all sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, have been executed in Urmia Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, four men were executed in Urmia Central Prison on 31 December 2021. Sentenced to qisas for murder, their identities have been established as Moghaddam Alizadeh, Hamdollah …

Iran-HRM – Iranian political prisoner Adel Kianpour died Saturday after a week of hunger strike without receiving medical care in a prison in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province. Political prisoner Adel Kianpour had gone on hunger strike since December 25, 2021 to protest being denied basic due process rights. He was demanding furlough and to be held in political ward. Ahwaz Human …

Iran-HRM – An annual report by a human rights group said that at least 163 citizens were killed or wounded by Iran’s state security forces in western Iran in the past year, of which 52 lost their lives. Hengaw human rights organization reported on Friday that of the 52 Kurd citizens who were killed by the state security forces in …

Iran-HRM – A political prisoner held in Sheiban Prison, sewed his right eyelid to protest the authorities’ to grant him parole and temporary leave. In an audio file which political prisoner Khaled Pirzadeh sent from the prison on Thursday, he said that he sewed his right eyelid to protest the authorities’ refusal to fulfill their promises and their repeated disrespect …

Iran-HRM – Two political prisoners were each sentenced to 10 years in prison and exile by the Tehran Revolutionary Court. The Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Mohammad Moghiseh, has sentenced Vahid Bani Amerian and Pouya Ghobadi to a total of 20 years in prison and exile. According to the verdict Vahid Bani Amerian and Pouya …

Iran-HRM – While rents in Tehran and its suburbs have risen by more than 50 percent, according to the central bank, official reports from the capital suggest that some people are forced to sleep in high-speed buses at nights. According to state-run Tejarat News website, homeless Iranian men have taken to sleeping in Tehran buses for 12-25k tomans (under$1) a …

RFL/RE – French tourist Benjamin Briere, who has been in an Iranian prison since spring last year on spying charges, has begun a hunger strike, his lawyer and sister have said. A French Foreign Ministry spokesperson said December 27 that French authorities maintain close contact with Briere, visiting him on December 21 and contacting him again on December 27. The …

Iran-HRM – In 2021, two officials who have committed tremendous rights violations for decades, the mullah’s President Ebrahim Raisi and Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’I, ascended to top positions of power in Iran. By appointing major human rights violators, which obviously threat Iran’s civil society, Khamenei is using all his power to crush protests, restrict activists, and stifle any dissent. Suppression …

Iran-HRM – A Baluch child was killed on December 24 in Saravan, southeast Sisran and Baluchestan Province. Osman Bameri was transferring fuel on his motorcycle when he was shot and killed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which effectively controls local economic and military operations. The city of Saravan lies 270 kilometers to the south of the provincial capital …

Iran-HRM – Two Iranian girls murdered in honor killings promoted by misogynist laws In a recent case of honor killing in Iran, two girls were shot dead by their family members in a village in Sistan and Baluchestan, southeast Iran. A video posted on social media in recent days shows locals finding the bodies of two girls on desert roads …