Human rights

Hundreds of teachers have joined protests in more than 30 Iranian cities, demanding higher salaries and better labor conditions. Reports indicated that teachers protested in the capital, Tehran, as well as Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad, Rasht, Qom, and other cities around the country. The teachers reportedly criticized what they referred to as the government’s “indifference to education” while also calling for the release of …

RFL/RE – Iran has re-incarcerated French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah after she had spent more than a year under house arrest, the French Foreign Ministry said on January 12. Adelkhah, a researcher at the elite Paris Institute of Political Studies, was arrested in 2019 at Tehran airport and handed a five-year prison sentence in 2020 for conspiring against national security.It was …

(HRW) – Iranian intelligence and judicial authorities continued their crackdown on dissent in 2021, while lawmakers passed and debated laws that further violate human rights, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2022. Over the past three years, security forces have responded to widespread protests stemming largely from economic rights issues with excessive and unlawful force, including lethal force, and arrested thousands …

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Ebrahim Sediq Hamedani was transferred to solitary confinement in Marivan Prison while on a hunger strike. Mr. Khalil Sedighi Hamedani, 63, and his son Salar, 30, were abroptly transferred on January 7, from Urmia Prison to Marivan and Kamyaran Prisons where they have been incarcerated alongside common criminals. Both have gone on hunger strike since their …

Iran-HRM – The torture and cruel mistreatment of detainees and prisoners in Iran are among the most serious human rights violations in the country’s jails. Iranian security officials routinely subject prisoners to ill-treatment particularly during interrogations. There are noumerous reports of detainees’ deaths during interrogation phase in detention centres run by the ministry of intelligence, the IRGC, and the investigation …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Brothers Farhang and Yasser Aliollahi who were sentenced to death for drug-related offences, have been executed in Zanjan Central Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, two men were executed for drug-related offences in Zanjan Central Prison on the morning of January 11. Their identities have been established as 35-year-old Farhang Aliollahi and …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Seven death row prisoners who all seem to have been sentenced to qisas (retribution-in-kind) for murder, have been transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions in Rajai Shahr Prison. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, on January 10, seven men were transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their executions in Rajai Shahr …

Shabtabnews – In a statement IOPHR reminded the world that based on the past evidence of the Iranian Regime’s inhuman action, it’s likely that the regime will continue to exploit the current Corona crisis as means of stealth massacre of Iranian ideological and political prisoners like the death of Baktash Abtin. The statement also stated ” countless prisoners of conscience, …

RFL/RE – The British Council says an Iranian female employee convicted of spying for Israel has been acquitted by a court and is now free and has arrived in the United Kingdom. Aras Amiri, who worked for the council’s London office, was sentenced to 10 years in jail in 2019. The British Council said on January 12 that an appeal …

CHRI – The life of veteran journalist and political activist Keyvan Samimi is in danger as he continues to be unlawfully kept behind bars in Tehran’s Evin Prison despite state officials’ recommendations that he be released to receive treatment for serious health problems. “We’re seeing a pattern of political prisoners being intentionally led to their deaths in Iran’s prisons,” said Hadi Ghaemi, …