Human rights

Iranwire – The below is an archived article first published by IranWire on May 21, 2021. It has been republished as part of our new series on transnational repression. Read more about the project here. A fake Persian-language driving licence app, concealing malicious software. A petrol bomb hurled onto a politician’s porch. The brazen kidnapping of an activist in exile. These …

Iran-HRM – UN Third Committee resolution censures serious rights abuses in Iran. This is the 68the resolution passed by the United Nations condemning the flagrant human rights violations in Iran. The Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution, censuring the brutal and systematic violations of human rights in Iran on November 17, 2021. The Third Committee resolution was passed …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Prominent human rights defender, Narges Mohammadi who was arrested at the ceremony of slain November 2019 protesters yesterday, has been informed in solitary confinement that her 30 month imprisonment and 80 lashes sentence will be enforced. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, in a phone call to her family from prison, Narges Mohammadi …

Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) – Whistleblower Farhad Salmanpour is facing new fabricated charges after speaking out about the suspicious death of Shahin Naseri in custody. According to information obtained by Iran Human Rights, Farhad Salmanpour who is held in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary, is facing new fabricated charges by the Fashafuyeh Revolutionary Court after exposing details of Shahin Naseri’s suspicious …

Shabtabnews –  The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) released a report earlier this month regarding the ongoing situation in China facing the Uyghur population. The 60 page report is titled, “To Make Us Slowly Disappear”: The Chinese Government’s Assault on the Uyghurs. The report discusses the background of discrimination Uyghurs have faced in the past, what is currently happening to them, policy …

RFL/RE – A hacktivist group calling itself Edalat-e Ali (Ali’s Justice) has rocked the Iranian establishment in recent months by leaking videos and confidential documents that appear to show the systematic mistreatment of inmates at Iran’s most notorious prison. But to this point the group has revealed little about its makeup or goals. Now, in an exclusive interview with RFE/RL’s …

Iran-HRM – Intelligence and security forces in Behbahan arrested Mohsen Ghanavati, Payam Jaihouni, and Amin Moradi and took them to the intelligence detention center in Ahvaz and the Prison of Behbahan. They took Mohsen Ghanavati to the Prison of Behbahan. Amin Moradi and Payam Jaihouni are in an intelligence detention center in Ahvaz, the capital of Khuzestan Province. The security …

Iranwire – Iran’s deputy minister of cooperatives, labor and social welfare has announced that the country records 13,000 work-related accidents every year, of which 700 to 800 are fatal. If correct, this would mean around three Iranians per 100,000 in formal employment are killed at work each year: a relatively high ratio compared other countries, even before the informal sector …

Iranwire – The long wait for the criminal trial of Keyvan Emamverdi, a former student at the University of Tehran’s Faculty of Literature alleged to have drug-raped dozens of women, was finally over this weekend. In October last year, Tehran’s police chief claimed the bookstore owner had confessed to raping “more than 300” women over 10 years, after no fewer …

amnesty – This document contains the details of 324 men, women and children documented by Amnesty International as having been killed by Iran’s security forces during their crackdown on mass protests that erupted across Iran between 15 and 19 November 2019, following the government’s announcement about the significant overnight rise in the price of fuel. Choose a language to view …